Oh looks it’s a guy who contributed nothing to the discussion only to somehow feel superior because his response is a meme.
The industry had annual releases for decades, they even fell into seasons and we’re depended on in specific times of the year. Oh mighty knowledgeable one.
I also know basically nothing about the industry, but The Last of Us certainly looks more expensive than most shows that came out year to year in the history of television. Expensive tends to mean that it takes more time. Because I'm a Breaking Bad nerd, I seem to recall a commentary track saying that each episode took 8 days to make a 48 minute episode (roughly 6 usable minutes filmed per day) compared to Game of Thrones' 20 days per episode. If you've got a 10 episode order, that's most of the year to make the season when it's not held up by strikes, and I don't know if that includes post production like CG.
I’m the same as you, no experience of the industry but from a consumer perspective the wait times are excessive. GoT dropped every ~12 months with the exception of the final season which took far too long again.
But things like Stranger things have enormous gaps and now a show that was always going to have two parts, has the story set out and was a huge hit has an excessive wait time just seems unnecessary to me.
The best seasons of Game of Thrones were adaptations of existing books that took care of 90% of the script and scene structure for planning and were filmed when there were no strikes or pandemics getting in the way.
Stranger Things took off time for both those and to give the writer time to write quality scripts. Not comparable at all.
See how well annual release schedules did coinciding with writers strikes. Look at any season of a show from 2007 to 2008 and even into 2009. They were heavily negatively affected.
Oh yeah I do get that but they knew season 2 was happening before the strike and they have been back writing for a few weeks now too. I don’t want what happened to Heroes to happen again but 2025 seems excessive.
Agreed, I did mean it as a bit of a tongue in cheek comment. The actor that played Ellie was a fair bit older too, so I guess they can handle whatever they want with makeup anyway.
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