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Riverdale actually did what I've always wished for a boring failure of a show to do, and just completely go nuts.

Oh our boring high school drama show is slumping? How about an organ stealing cult, a superhero, and a guy escaping from the cops in a rocketship!

It's very satisfying. You get a proper ending that's bittersweet.

These days shows have to justify themselves right out of the gate.

I miss mid-budget live action scifi shows with strong enough episodic elements that I can actually remember individual episodes. These days seemingly every show feels like an 8-12 movie that blurs together.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds is the closest current thing to an exception. Before that The Orville.

Most other scifi that comes out has to be an "event".

Friends or Frasier camp, and never the twain shall meet.

Firefly's biggest weakness/strength is the dialog. It was wholly done in the Joss Whedon style and cadence. Every member of the main cast was "the snarky one", every conversation was a series of verbal setups- and if it was against antagonists they'd be completely witless and walk into verbal traps, and every classic verbal trope would be lampshaded.

If you've watched enough of his previous shows it is very easy to predict how a conversation in Firefly will sound.

Back in the day that style of dialog was still somewhat novel, especially to people who weren't big Buffy/Angel fans. Nowadays this is the baseline MCU style of dialog, which means it is absolutely played out.

My Hero Academia

I really enjoyed this, but one day I kind of just stopped watching. I think I get bored with anime shows that are set up to go on and on with endless hundred episode arcs.

Stranger Things

The first season really felt like something the creators had been developing for years as a creative idea. The ending with a sandwich left for Eleven was just the right amount of ambiguous to end off the story. The second season felt like a rushed idea pumped out when offered more money where the creators just leaned into full 80s nostalgia by copying ALIENS rather than forging something 80s inspired but unique like the first season.

Friends

I don't get it either. It's just vapid interpersonal dynamics comedy. I've watched a little and it has the wide and low appeal, it never did anything interesting.

I was completely hooked until a major moment in season 2 that felt like it was going to turbo charge the story, but then the follow up episodes were just lots of doing nothing with it.

You can say that, and maybe it is true for the better season 1, but season 2 has the unshakable feeling of real life considerations affecting the art by having to stretch out the story.

Based on how verification was revoked for some users on Twitter based on their content rather than question of their identity, I'm cautious about this system turning into the status symbol it became on Twitter rather than the verification it claimed to be.

Unfortunately, the forecast isn't good for the integrity of what should be a simple system. Under Dorsey, the Twitter blue checkmark had already become a tool for showing content approval by Twitter. In various instances users had their status removed based on their content and not on a question of if they were who they claimed to be.