Audience influence is such a tricky thing; there are times when I wish the writers would ignore what the loudest online audience members are saying. Other times, like this? It's a plus. (This is only going to happen more, in my opinion. And, in line with your comment about a cultural war over gender, I'll applaud the Duffer brothers for at least making an effort to improve in that aspect... even if they didn't succeed well in every instance.)
Quite true...on both accounts.
The problem with paying attention to folks on Twitter or social media is well, who do you pay attention to? Because the fandom agrees on nothing, and fights over everything.
But in this day and age -- the majority or the power base with advertisers and subscription appears to be the liberal or progressive side of the fence. So the writers have thankfully been going in that direction (at least for the most part) and in part because they are liberal themselves. There are those who go in the opposite direction, I know they exist and seen it happen, I just don't watch, read or pay attention to their products. And they are losing ground, because the vast majority of our media offerings is catering to a more progressive base.
Case in point the fight over the Disney casting of Ariel in the live action version of The Little Mermaid.
But that's a drawback for those shows that would really shine with more seasons, y'know? I'm surprised to hear there's going to be more of this show, given the Netflix business model.
Netflix tends to prefer limited series. But it has longer ones. And it is getting a lot of positive attention because of Stranger Things and subscribers -- so it won't let go of it so soon. Stranger Things was even part of a joke with Amazon a while back.
So, at first, it looked like they weren't going with a fourth season, but I think they changed their minds again. It may just go four seasons -- due to the Netflix business model and the fact that Netflix is wee bit over-extended or so one would think. It has over 900 scripted programs and counting.
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Quite true...on both accounts.
The problem with paying attention to folks on Twitter or social media is well, who do you pay attention to? Because the fandom agrees on nothing, and fights over everything.
But in this day and age -- the majority or the power base with advertisers and subscription appears to be the liberal or progressive side of the fence. So the writers have thankfully been going in that direction (at least for the most part) and in part because they are liberal themselves. There are those who go in the opposite direction, I know they exist and seen it happen, I just don't watch, read or pay attention to their products. And they are losing ground, because the vast majority of our media offerings is catering to a more progressive base.
Case in point the fight over the Disney casting of Ariel in the live action version of The Little Mermaid.
But that's a drawback for those shows that would really shine with more seasons, y'know? I'm surprised to hear there's going to be more of this show, given the Netflix business model.
Netflix tends to prefer limited series. But it has longer ones. And it is getting a lot of positive attention because of Stranger Things and subscribers -- so it won't let go of it so soon. Stranger Things was even part of a joke with Amazon a while back.
So, at first, it looked like they weren't going with a fourth season, but I think they changed their minds again. It may just go four seasons -- due to the Netflix business model and the fact that Netflix is wee bit over-extended or so one would think. It has over 900 scripted programs and counting.