Tv Shows vs the film

Breaking Bad Season 2
So the final episode of season two finally came down on the torrent sites. It was kind of a bummer really. It reminded me of Donnie Darko with the plane crash thing. It’s nice and all that, but, it surely leaves it open ended. They can certainly put a third season there, but, I am probably not going to catch up to that until after the whole season 3 is available. I like to watch the whole season in one sitting. So it’s goodbye to breaking bad for me.

Dexter season 1
I was able to finish watching season 1 of Dexter while downloading the last episode of season 2 of breaking bad. It was a pretty decent show. Tittles, murders, forensics, serial killers all that jazz. It’s interesting for a cop show. I’m glad I got up to season 3 of that already on the PC. I’m tempted to watch season two right now, but, that would hang me up for at least twelve hours; and I have shit to do tomorrow.

The TV shows VS the feature length film.
I think there is some value now to TV shows. I used to think I was a purist of film. I still would prefer a well done film than a TV show. I thought that film was the only way to do some watching. I used to think that the stories in a film were like a novel, and that a TV show was that of some sort of periodical. But, now after taking in a few new(to me) TV series as my vacation has been ending, I find the opposite to be true. I find that movies nowadays are shit. I am really very impressed with only 1 out of every 10 that I take in. It’s hard to put a rich and interesting story into a two hour block of time. It takes so much finesse and it’s a huge risk to have a film produced. You can take so many more smaller risks in TV, and get away with much more.
Take for instance the case of love. The only way you can show love in a movie is the case of ‘love at first sight’, which in the real world, happens not-so-often to maybe even never for some people. In a TV show, you can progress a relationship through many appearances, and make love look more believable and lasting by building it up over many shows, hours of exposure to reinforce and idea.
Another point would be the idea of counter-culture (drug use) as a theme. It’s a risk to show this kind of activity on the big screen. How would you approach this kind of situation? The usual Ideal of the drug movie is not blockbuster film material. Take for instance, Trainspotting, Spun, requiem for a dream, et.al. These are risky things to produce on film because of the central nature of drug use as the main theme. People are shy to be associated with these things as fans. I would think that the films listed above do not appear so frequently on people’s favorite list on their personal internet profiles. I wouldn’t want to list them because of the implications about them. I want to leave a certain kind of ‘me’ behind me, and I’m sure other reformed individuals might think the same. I’m not proud of everything I have done. Basically, in a TV show, you can risk putting this kind of illicit content activity there and leave it to the viewing public to decide if they like it. They can then proceed and make another season, or, nip it in the bud and kill the season.
A movie needs to be a focused, concise piece of relevant work. It must appeal to a wide audience. If it is high budget, it must recoup the expenditure that made it possible. It must be interesting and worthy. I love film. I love to see the brilliant vision of a person in just two hours. I love to be struck with genius and dazzled in my chair. I like all this to happen in just 2 hours. As I see all that there is to see these days, I see it is getting harder to satisfy this longing for a good film. It’s certainly a harder thing to do, to really ‘wow’ me with a film.