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[โ€“] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I was really excited for the anthology angle. The first season ended and I thought, like with love death and robots, if they could pull off that quality with a series of mostly unrelated supernatural stories they'd be filling a massive need I feel completely unsatisfied in.

Then season 2 came and honestly it never resonated with me the same way. I think television and movie folk struggle immensely with world building right now and that tends to reveal itself the longer an IP goes on. You meet the father, or the unique monster was actually one of many and now there's a more powerful version but it's red or something, or actually this new character was behind the whole thing, or what have you.

I wish they'd spend at least a 10th of what they spend on actors on writers. Like you know doomsday's writers are getting paid 1/100th of what RDJ is getting paid. Star wars can't even afford a writer it seems. Money and success should scale with all departments but it seems to me some of the most meaningful departments get shafted in lieu of fat returns for the owners.

But you see, we can us AI to rehash old plots, use the money we saved on writers to make either bigger booms, or fatter stocks. Hopefully both. Like Bo Burham said years ago,"art is dead".