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Comment by imgabe

This sounds awful. This is a problem I have with a lot of Netflix's content. It's nobody's baby. There's no singular vision behind it where a person came up with a story they want to tell. Instead it's algorithmically generated like "Here's some things that popular things have in common, write a story around these elements". That can get something passable sometimes, but mostly not.

Most great art is the product of one mind at the most basic level. Of course with something like a TV show or movie there are thousands of people involved, but there has to a captain to the ship, so to speak. Otherwise it just floats around aimlessly because multiple people can be pulling it in different directions.

It's riskier, because if that person is bad, the whole thing is going to turn out bad, but it's the only way to get something truly good.

parent imgabe 8 years ago

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