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Comment author: CronoDAS 18 October 2009 08:32:26PM 0 points [-]

Well, being a (former) Dark Tower fan myself, I think that's not necessarily related to the bald fact that the series ended so much as how it ended...

I haven't seen people talking about the new Battlestar Galactica series after it ended, either. Often, once "the answer" exists, people stop wondering what it is.

How much of this, do you think, is due simply to the fact that everyone is coordinated & equally ignorant due to sheer temporal necessity, and how much to the actual 'new' nature of releases?

Yeah, I think that's what I'm getting at - you almost never get that kind of coordination when it comes to "old" works.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 19 October 2009 12:19:50AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I think that's what I'm getting at - you almost never get that kind of coordination when it comes to "old" works.

I don't think most people care so much about the suspense and discussing the next episode. People do discuss one-shot movies. But it's important that they all watch them at the same time, so that they can time the discussion. Before about 1970 movies were re-released in the theaters and I think this was adequate coordination. I'm not sure why it stopped. VCRs are an obvious answer, but I think they stopped rather earlier. And movies get remade today, which I think it greatly inferior to re-release.

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