Comment on What's your ideal TV series length and style?
Skavau@lemm.ee 3 days agoA dozen episodes (at roughly 50 minutes an episode) a season is still about 11 hours. That’s more than a movie trilogy would be in a single season. By quite a bit. It’s not fair to say that’s basically a movie trilogy.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
To be fair, the LotR trilogy is 3 movies at ~3.5 hours, which is 10.5 hours—close enough to 11 hours.
Now, if you’re not getting character development and world building in much less time than that, it’s either a problem with execution or expectations.
Skavau@lemm.ee 3 days ago
True, but the LOTR trilogy is not representative of most trilogies.
Also in this comparison we’d be talking about the first season being the length of LOTR… There could be 3 or 4 more seasons to continue the character development.