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Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue
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Not just AI, Hollywood's Netflixisation is destroying the standard of writing of both TV and Movies.
Netflix Writers can't write too good or the viewers won't be able to stream slop in the background which is more important on corpo Spreadsheets than real viewership. This is also bleeding onto other non-Netflix studios slowly and with the WB acquisition, I expect the same to happen to HBO and all WB IPs.
Add to this the atrocious wait times between sequels which kills interest overtime. Pluribus S2 has not even been written yet, Severance S3 has not begun filming and so on. Same with Movies like Spiderverse and Batman which were far better received than standard Capeshit but the sequel situation is bad.
I had the chance to rewatch Lord of the Rings when it was shown in theaters recently. I'm not saying it's high art, but the complexity of the writing and some of the more esoteric language they use did jump out at me juxtaposed to a lot of the things I've seen lately.
There has been a real collapse in the quality of writing on mass media TV shows and movies in the past 25 years.
most TV shows aren't TV shows anymore, they are episodic movies.
I'm calling it "Netflixisation" but the real issue are corpos and the enshittification has been going on from before Netflix was this big.
I wouldn't even put the blame on Netflix. When they were the only online streaming platform, they didn't need to make content because they were like a digital Blockbuster. It was when studios insisted on having exclusive content on their own streaming platforms Netflix had to come up with content to fill the void so people wouldn't cancel their subscriptions.
Recently, Netflix lost their Marvel shows they produced to Disney+. They can't maintain the slop they made because streaming is being turned into cable. HBO even lost Raised by Wolves and Westworld, the two major tentpole shows they were relying on after Game of Thrones ended.
Netflix purposefully sabotages the writing on their shows to try and pump numbers to please suits and shareholders. This works alright for slop but it's a problem when it starts affecting even their flagship shows like Stranger Things. Streaming itself is the problem since all services would want to do this because their leadership is full of clowns.