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[–]jet199 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

There's this weird thing at the moment where a lot of people have decided they don't like original fiction. They like true stories and old stories but they don't have any patience for new stories. I can't really put my finger on it but it's similar thing to people who can't watch scifi or fantasy. But, yeah, this trend is definitely coming from the audience as well as studios. Studios just want to make money.

[–]AlanSmith33 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

I think the mainstream audience wants something predictable, I think people have been getting increasingly fed up with this rollercoaster thriller we're living for the last ten years.

[–]jet199 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah but they'll watch an unpredictable documentary series though.

I mean sometimes they even say it, they'll say something about about a plot point they don't like along the lines of "it's as though the writers are just making it up as they go along." I mean that's what writers do, yes.

[–]AlanSmith33 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Documentaries only show us how things already are, they don't add another problem for us to worry about, even if it's only for 90 minutes.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Documentaries only show us how things already are, they don't add another problem for us to worry about, even if it's only for 90 minutes.

FALSE.

Documentaries often give the impression of unbiased objective reality, especially well produced ones. The truth is that every piece of media, all of it, especially corporate media, and including this comment, has biases, agendas, and intent. Documentaries are essentially audio-visual essays that will spin the audience toward their predetermined destination.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Reliably boring hypnotic content is needed for The American Dream.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

There's this weird thing at the moment where a lot of people have decided they don't like original fiction. They like true stories and old stories but they don't have any patience for new stories. I can't really put my finger on it but it's similar thing to people who can't watch scifi or fantasy. But, yeah, this trend is definitely coming from the audience as well as studios. Studios just want to make money.

It seems to me there are several practical reasons for this.

The entertainment business requires everything from screenwriters to production companies to directors and editors. All of these can be more effective cogs in the business machine if there are protocols, standards, and templates in an assembly line of production. It simply makes sense to cookie-cutter their shit - especially with million dollar investments with billions on the line.

They also monopolize intellectual property and copyright claims with their armies of lawyers. By limiting the amount of original content produced they can better wrangle and control their tried and not-true IPs.

Most if not all of their content reinforces the concept that "authority" must be obeyed and is critically necessary. I could go on about this at length.

(((The globalist corporatocracy))) is training us to consume only their product to be good obedient consumerist debt slaves.

Full spectrum dominance of (((the message))).

They already own all the major production companies, networks, and distribution avenues (and in addition to the media, the banks, politics, military, goods, services, etc etc etc). They suppress alternative media in favour of corporate media, controlled voices, limited hangouts, and/or those who serve (((the official narratives))) and (((the message))), whether paid or not, ignorantly or intentionally. And of they course apply dynamic silence and/or censor the alternative media critical of that which is too taboo to expose - or that offer alternatives and solutions.