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This show is really quite horrible... so poorly written and stretched out...

In most other segments of the real world, this would be considered extortion.

blastdoor said:

Movies are dying and I think that’s fine. High quality streaming series are far better than movies. 

Take the best movie you can think of and it would have been better as a streaming series. For example, the godfather — great two movies that would have been even better as streaming series.

Ehhh.........nope

The problem with so many streaming series is they are stuffed with time-sucking scenes. Silo S1 was a series I struggled to complete, and when it was over, I felt the first and last episodes where rather compelling - everything in the middle was an hour of storytelling spread over several hours. 

As Joel (or Ethan) Cohen said on a Team Deakins podcast (paraphrasing) "Movies have a beginning, middle, and end. Streaming shows have a beginning, middle, middle, middle, middle and end."

Compression of time - say a two hour movie -  demands more ingenious, compelling, and efficient storytelling where a good writers and directors imagine ways to convey something in inventive and sometimes awe-inspiring ways (ie the bone/spaceship cut in 2001). The largesse streaming doesn't preclude this, but the necessity of having 7-10 hours of "content" takes precedence over whether a story demands or deserves it.

Compression of time also is often better for tension/release (comedic or dramatic). In many long-format streaming shows (say Foundation or Invasion), there are hours of incidental scenes that do extremely little to tell the story). The "story" of Silo S1 took 8 hours to tell. Probably should have taken less than half that, making it much more compelling.

Of course there are movies that suck, and streaming shows that are tight and good, but too much content is the length it is not for the story, but for the streamer's catalog...

DAalseth said:

I fully expect 47 to push through a law requiring Apple to build in a back door. With that, there will go our security. 

Despite the public statements around this during the assassination attempt, I sincerely doubt this... that backdoor would swing both ways, intelligence knows this...

Would have been nice to see a minor refresh on the Studio Display 27, with a DeskView capable camera (unless this is just software? But the specs for it don't list it....)