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  1. Sep 2024
    1. WandaVision is a loving and well-done parade through TV history

      A great homage to the earlier styles of tv shows

    2. Over the years there have been all sorts of attempts to bring back the laugh-track sitcom

      I always think of big bang theory when they talk about laugh tracks.

    3. The sequence climaxes with the boss’s wife (That ’70s Show veteran Debra Jo Rupp) opening the galley kitchen shutters to reveal Wanda whizzing dozens of pots, pans, and ingredients through the air

      Reminds me of old sitcoms like bewitched.

    1. Kelly Marie Tran, whose character Rose they especially disliked, even ended up leaving social media altogether due to sustained harassment.

      They should not blame the actor they should blame the writers that wrote such a bad character.

    2. Many critics and fans adored it

      I do not believe this to be true most hated this movie

    3. But such a fan-guided approach to art also feels endemic of a time when a lot of mainstream storytelling has come to be regarded more as a product designed to service the consumer than a means of artistic expression.

      This is true with the studios being highly involved and not letting directors do what they want.

    4. Yet the extent to which the internet has changed the very nature of fandom is debatable. According to leading media scholar Henry Jenkins, whose 1992 book Textual Poachers is considered the founding text of fan studies, it has merely “increased the scope and scale of the fan community

      Even before the internet many disgruntled fans shared their opinions and caused major rewrites.

    5. Should fans have this much of a say in the pop culture they consume? And if so, what does it mean for art itself?

      They definitely should have a say if they are the ones consuming it.

    6. The ability of fans to shape and change the art they enjoy is nothing new. In 1893, the reaction to Arthur Conan Doyle killing off Sherlock Holmes was so intense that he eventually resurrected him ten years later.

      I believe this a good and bad thing because fan input is important but so is letting a piece or art die.

    1. Both have since graduated from blogging, Rovzar to editing Bloomberg Pursuits and Pressler to writing magazine features

      This shows that the reviews are popular enough to move up.

    2. I don’t think it’s gonna be the dominant form anymore, just because everyone’s watching on their own schedule now,”

      I find that some shows that still release episodically are popular so I believe its still possible.

    3. ecapsRecaps are past their peak, but they’re also far from dead.

      I still notice a lot of recaps on the shows I watch especially for a new season.

    4. and scrutinizing it on a chapter-by-chapter basis was essentially unheard of

      Being a film or tv critic is so popular now compared to then

    5. Sepinwall, now the TV critic for Rolling Stone,

      Important to know who the critic is.

    6. in the form of long, episodic reviews of almost every show imaginable

      Reviews are as indepth as the show itself.