Darkwind
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- Jun 18, 2009
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With the way they rotate characters out of the show, how hard would it be to keep it going?They can make millions elsewhere capitalizing on their newfound fame with new contracts. They have been at it almost ten years. The producers, writers, and actors would like to move on to other projects before they die.Sure, but nobody involved with that show wants to work on it for 5 more years.Season 8 started last night and the opening episode was only 54 minutes long
About a year ago, I was curious as to when the season would premiere so I went looking and was surprised that they planned on April 2019. Okay, no big deal, but that insider website -- I can't recall which one -- was saying that the episodes were going to be nearly movie length, 90+ minutes each.
I thought, cool. They had a shit ton of open story plotlines and even with six episodes, if they were 90 minutes each, they could close it all out.
It turns out that the episode lengths aren't much longer than just the normal 1-hour episodes, the next one is only 56 minutes and the rest are something like 79 minutes each.
The total for Season 8 is going to be a whopping 7.15 hours in length -- Total.
I'm kind of disappointed in that as I feel that the writing isn't tight enough to close all those stories in that little time.
Yeah, it could be that I just want to drag it out a few more seasons. lol
Just finished watching Winter is Here. (no, no spoilers)
Agreed. Season 7 and this feel like they are just rushing through to conclude the series. And there are plenty of storyline and characters they could have used to flesh out both seasons into 10 episodes. Rather a shame considering how wonderful it has been.
Yeah. . . who would want to make millions of dollars? Fuck that!