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What are tell-tale signs a series has jumped its shark? (piefed.social)
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[–] 28 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It runs in parallel with a show getting too many characters to handle. It accelerates the Flanderization of characters who don't have a lot to do. Stranger Things had that problem as well, with a far too bloated main cast by the end.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    For me, Will: It's when... Dustin: The characters in every scene... Max: Talk like... Steve: This.

    There are too many characters, and the only way your audience can remember that half of them still exist is... Nancy: For them to start sharing lines.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, yeah, the detectives are all gathered with the Captain, briefing him on what they've discovered, and each actor has a line that offers a fact in the case, and they go around the group, and each one tosses in their fact like it was rehearsed, which it was.

    In reality, they'd all pool their info, and the main guy would brief the boss, while the others watched. Or maybe they'd brief the boss in private, while everybody else did their jobs, like a real workplace.

    But I've never been in a meeting where everyone chimed in one line at a time, without interrupting, arguing, stammering, shuffling through pages, etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    In real life, it would go:

    Nancy: Of course! We need to-

    Nancy and Steve: dfoi intd foruotm thhoe...

    *awkward pause

    Nancy and Steve: Go ahea-

    *another awkward pause

    Nancy and Steve: No, you go ahe-

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I’ve seen this in video games. The Trails series builds itself on slowly assembling these big Avengers teams of heroes - but each dynamic only works when there’s like 2-4 of them.

    Get as far as Sky the 3rd, and you get one lead saying “It looks like this next dimension will be tougher than ever” and then some 13-odd people giving generic barks of affirmation in turn.

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