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The Shannara Chronicles Sq (Patreon)

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2025-03-16 19:25:28
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It's finally time. Time for Terry Brooks' exceedingly strange Tolkien knock-off (by way of MTV)

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Elsie Hupp

The reason CW shows are Like That—never quite showing sex or blood—is that the CW is a terrestrial broadcast channel in the United States, and the FCC has weirdly specific standards about what can be shown on terrestrial broadcast television at certain times of day. By contrast, if something is, say, a Paramount+ original, they can do basically whatever they want. The only CW show I ever really got into was Riverdale, after I watched the first few episodes on an in-flight entertainment system while traveling somewhere. Riverdale has one hell of a pilot, a mildly disappointing first season, and then like a hundred episodes of somehow doing nothing while constantly jumping the shark. Riverdale is a bit odd, production-wise, in that the first season had a dozen-odd episodes, like a cable show, but when it got renewed, Netflix footed the production bill, and all subsequent seasons had 26 episodes. Honestly the most frustrating thing with Riverdale was all the squandered potential, with some genuinely interesting subplots that meandered through the show’s glacial pacing before ultimately leading nowhere. Just terrible, terrible pacing, both for broadcast *and* for streaming! (Somewhat similarly, I started watching Bones on a seat-back monitor on an overnight bus from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, and Bones also goes from an edgy, almost-cable first season to unwatchable slop over the course of its production run!)

Elsie Hupp
>>168099184

I think what happened over the course of time that Riverdale and Bones were on the air is that streaming completely murdered broadcast and basic cable television. The video essayist Quinton Kyle Hoover has charted a similar rise and fall—over a slightly longer time-frame—with what he calls the Nickelodeon Sitcom Universe, the interlocking set of shows peaking with iCarly.

Elsie Hupp

So if there’s a character named Eritrea, I’m guessing there’s also the Derg?

Elsie Hupp
>>168118711

It could actually be interesting to discuss that weird Polish book about Haile Selassie… if you haven’t already.