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TopicValley of The Geeks
ParanoidObsessive
08/07/19 11:52:58 PM
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MarvelousCaptn posted...
Otherwise I'll mention that I had been skeptical of the self-contained seasons, but they work out really well. Generally speaking, a *lot* of stories are best told in a season of tv rather than a film, but it's hard to pitch doing a one-season show.

I'm fine with anthology shows, or even a show with anthology seasons. It was more in how it was presented that rubbed me the wrong way.

The first problem is the repeat cast as different characters issue I already mentioned, which really fucks with my ability to immerse into a setting and care about the plot, because it takes me out of the characters. I'd almost prefer they just recast every season with complete unknown actors who can really breathe life into a role, so in my head that actor IS that character.

But the second big problem is how they portrayed the first season. They really played up the idea of this house being cursed over like hundreds of years, constantly being the site of grizzly murders, with each time period and atrocity sort of being given a ton of flavor and personality, to the point where we're clearly sort of supposed to care about them in some way... all of which pretty much becomes absolutely meaningless in the conclusion where none of it really mattered all that much and they'd basically spent a season trying to convince us to really invest in a ton of stuff that was never anything more than filler.

In a sense, it felt very much like Lost, in that it kept trying to convince you that there was a lot of stuff going on in the background that really, really mattered, only for you to eventually realize that absolutely none of it mattered at all. And that is VERY much not the sort of show I want to watch. Ever. It's the same reason why the ending of the Battlestar: Galactica remake kind of made me retroactively hate the entire series. Which is part of why I tend to refuse to even start watching those kinds of shows anymore, at least until long after they've ended and I can judge whether or not the ending is going to be satisfying. In a world of near-infinite media, I no longer have time for that kind of bullshit. I barely have time as-is for things I DO want to see.

The way AHS seemed to be setting things up in the first season, it almost felt like they were going to do a second season in the same house, only with a new family, and potentially new flashback references to older events kind of , which could have been cool. And then they basically swept all of that off the table and said "Okay, here's mostly the same major actors, only it's an entirely different story now, and it's not connected to the first season in any way." At which point I was like, "Welp, you can pretty much go fuck yourself."

It didn't help that I didn't particular love the first season in and of itself. As a self-contained story it was meh, and gave me no real motivation to want to see more self-contained stories by the same people. But as the foundation of a growing mystery and an ever-evolving setting that grew ever more intricate, I probably would have been more forgiving.
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