Today is weird
Sep. 11th, 2022 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimon661) Queen's ongoing funeral.
2) 9/11 observance.
3) End of the Ukraine War maybe in sight.
4) Almost made thru Summer without a damn fire.
5) Netflix consider doing some weekly episodes.
Re: #4 - Hate it when some damn fire way off somewhere and all the smoke comes here. Frickin mountain range makes a rain shadow and wackadoodle weather always going thru puberty. But the moment smoke appears, out goes the welcome mate and neon signs pointing the way here.
Re: #5 - Some people are having a BIG meltdown over this. HELLO?! Reading comprehension, get you some! It's only some shows, they're not quitting the binge model. I like the idea of having both binge and weekly offered. No other streaming service does both. Having a slot on the Home Page just for "New Episodes" is a win for new shows that could get lost/buried/overlooked in Netflix's damn algorithm and then canceled before they have a real shot of making it (which has happened numerous times).
Also a BIG win for Western anime fans who are royally ticked at new series airing weekly in Japan but stuck in "Netflix Jail" for non-Japanese until the whole season is available for a binge drop well after the original run and majority of interest has moved on. This has hurt a number of anime series (Little Witch Academy, Karigari, Beastars). Lately, Netflix has made deals with everybody now getting the anime binge drop set-up, but this being problematic as well. People want time to discuss episodes. Everyone is on different pages of when watched and or how many episodes. There has been a few weekly episodes, but they're subtitled only, no dubs. Contrary to popular belief (put out by Hollywood as an excuse for remakes of popular in their country of origin films), most Americans don't have an issue with reading subtitles. Subs can and do very well, (see Crunchyroll). Yes, dubs do lure in more watchers, but again, subs can and do very well. The problem, lies again with Netflix's damn algorithm. When I look under "New", I want to see what's actually new. What I get are some New with the algorithm mixing in things (some recent, some not) it thinks I might be interested in. HELLO?! I want the latest listing of NEW, that's why I and everybody else is looking at that slot in the first place. Shouldn't have to hunt for new stuff, including new episodes dropping. Adding to a Watchlist isn't a solution because things get moved around in there by Netflix.
Well, time will tell how all that will shake out. Given how Netflix is supposedly going to avoid repeating Hulu's mistake of playing the same ad over and over on the up-coming cheaper tier, I have some hope weekly airing will turn out ok.
2) 9/11 observance.
3) End of the Ukraine War maybe in sight.
4) Almost made thru Summer without a damn fire.
5) Netflix consider doing some weekly episodes.
Re: #4 - Hate it when some damn fire way off somewhere and all the smoke comes here. Frickin mountain range makes a rain shadow and wackadoodle weather always going thru puberty. But the moment smoke appears, out goes the welcome mate and neon signs pointing the way here.
Re: #5 - Some people are having a BIG meltdown over this. HELLO?! Reading comprehension, get you some! It's only some shows, they're not quitting the binge model. I like the idea of having both binge and weekly offered. No other streaming service does both. Having a slot on the Home Page just for "New Episodes" is a win for new shows that could get lost/buried/overlooked in Netflix's damn algorithm and then canceled before they have a real shot of making it (which has happened numerous times).
Also a BIG win for Western anime fans who are royally ticked at new series airing weekly in Japan but stuck in "Netflix Jail" for non-Japanese until the whole season is available for a binge drop well after the original run and majority of interest has moved on. This has hurt a number of anime series (Little Witch Academy, Karigari, Beastars). Lately, Netflix has made deals with everybody now getting the anime binge drop set-up, but this being problematic as well. People want time to discuss episodes. Everyone is on different pages of when watched and or how many episodes. There has been a few weekly episodes, but they're subtitled only, no dubs. Contrary to popular belief (put out by Hollywood as an excuse for remakes of popular in their country of origin films), most Americans don't have an issue with reading subtitles. Subs can and do very well, (see Crunchyroll). Yes, dubs do lure in more watchers, but again, subs can and do very well. The problem, lies again with Netflix's damn algorithm. When I look under "New", I want to see what's actually new. What I get are some New with the algorithm mixing in things (some recent, some not) it thinks I might be interested in. HELLO?! I want the latest listing of NEW, that's why I and everybody else is looking at that slot in the first place. Shouldn't have to hunt for new stuff, including new episodes dropping. Adding to a Watchlist isn't a solution because things get moved around in there by Netflix.
Well, time will tell how all that will shake out. Given how Netflix is supposedly going to avoid repeating Hulu's mistake of playing the same ad over and over on the up-coming cheaper tier, I have some hope weekly airing will turn out ok.
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Date: Sep. 12th, 2022 03:37 am (UTC)NEtflix has always done certain shows weekly. I always wait for the season to finish and then binge, I'm not talking to people who watch the same stuff as I do, so there's hardly a chance of spoilers :)
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Date: Sep. 12th, 2022 07:50 am (UTC)I hope the war is really almost over. Stupid Russia.
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Date: Sep. 12th, 2022 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 12th, 2022 03:52 pm (UTC)(Though — not sure I can wait until mid-October before watching "Rings of Power". Yes, I know this is on Prime.)
I so wish #3 to be true ... have you heard something I haven't?