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Joss Whedon (Writer – Director – Producer – Actor<\/a>) makes some interesting observations in an interview<\/a> with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. \u00a0 Two things that stuck out for me were Whedon’s thoughts on reboots\/reunions and binge-watching tv episodes.<\/p>\n Whedon on reboots\/reunions…<\/p>\n Whedon is on point. \u00a0As much as we want to bring back favorite favorites, it is so difficult. \u00a0There has to be some growth or we’re getting more of the same and we’ve seen that. \u00a0And Whedon is so right — part of what was great was experiencing it for the first time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Whedon on binge-watching tv episodes…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Technology has made movie and television watching less of an event. \u00a0I love the convenience of being able to record and watch what I want when I want, but when was the last time watching something became an event (not counting live broadcasts)? \u00a0When I was a kid, The Wizard of Oz<\/em> was shown once a year and you’d better be in front of the tube when it was broadcast. \u00a0I can still remember the thrill of being allowed to stay up late to watch it, or Hitchcock’s The Birds<\/em>. \u00a0The series finale of The Fugitive<\/em> was another tv event that was huge. \u00a0So was the murder of JR, a new episode of All in the Family<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Binge-watching takes away the event feel. \u00a0Not only that, because the series is available ANY time you want, there is less of a pull to watch it. \u00a0My wife and I tuned in every week for Longmire<\/em>. \u00a0When it switched to Netflix, we followed but now we could watch it whenever. \u00a0We have a full season yet to be watched. \u00a0Same with Daredevil<\/em>. \u00a0I’ve yet to watch a single episode of House of Cards<\/em> or Luke Cage<\/em>. \u00a0What’s the rush? \u00a0They’ll be there when I’m ready.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joss Whedon (Writer – Director – Producer – Actor) makes some interesting observations in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17573"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17582,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573\/revisions\/17582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
“I see a little bit of what I call monkey’s paw in these reboots. You bring something back, and even if it’s exactly as good as it was, the experience can’t be. You’ve already experienced it, and part of what was great was going through it for the first time.”<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“…the more it (television watching) becomes lifestyle instead of experience. It becomes ambient. It loses its power, and we lose something with it…I would not want to do it. I would want people to come back every week and have the experience of watching something at the same time… I loved event television.”<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n