Well, sure, but we're not talking about anime here but heavily serialised live-action shows.

The level of utter derangement people have over mainstream cinema (marvel, star wars, franchise, action slop, disney remakes) being 'tainted' by a raceswap, or being 'woke' in some way is off the scales.

There are genuinely people crying themselves to sleep over the perceived quality of the entertainment equivalent of happy meals. There's an entire caustic critic industry over it. It's honestly pathetic how so many people have MCU Derangement syndrome.

I’m not sure a significant number of people are interested in movies and not TV

I am. I mostly only watch TV. I definitely know lots of people who only watch movies and only care to follow movie updates and discussions.

I’m not opposed to the separation of movies and TV in principle. I’m mainly just concerned about how long it would take to rebuild that community.

I mean movies isn't going anywhere, and one of the communities here - moviesandtv despite the higher subscriber numbers is kinda dead.

Severance, Silo, For All Mankind, Dark Matter

To be sure, Foundation was very different - but it absolutely had (has) some good invented parts (Such as the Cleons)

Apple TV have pretty good success with tv shows

TV/Film are pretty different communities, but the overspill of them can be merged - to be sure.

Yeah... but doing what? Like a "filler" to me isn't specifically about an episode following an individual character. You can do that and not be "filler". If such an episode is in aid of furthering the overall plot of the show, giving the viewer wider context of how the character falls into it, showing their motivations etc. A character filler episode here is where the outcome of the episode essentially doesn't matter, and it's just done as a kind of break from the season/serial plot. Like Carol chasing rats and Daryl fixing his motorbike during those COVID era episodes of TWD.

That would be really out of place in Dark and would be just be whiplash.

Sorry, yes, excluding the off-instance examples. Although they're pretty much dead. There's way more random disorganised/abandoned tv/movie communities across lemmy.

Okay, so I'm the guy who set up television@lemm.ee. My instinct would be to say that the "TV" side should all come under that just because of the name being more intuitive. I was sorta surprised "Television" wasn't taken. I do realise also this community is quite a bit larger than my community.

The history of this seems a bit odd as the name is technically "showsandmovies" yet it's been repurposed to be about television, or was instantly edited to become about TV/streaming. But that's my bit.

I haven't a clue what to do with "moviesandtv" though lol.

Well we collectively operate most of those communities, so we can lol.

Movies and TV are quite different communities to be fair

Well, what does "filler" here mean to you? Dark is a tragedy where the characters in a personal sense aren't really relevant. It's hardly a series about 'slice of life' or "spend time with Jonas/Martha" to see what they get up to.

I can't see how GoT would, but then it depends what you consider as "filler". I don't think Dark would either. Or Silo

Filler episodes are important because they focus on character development and they give a break from the main plot.

I guess it depends on the show. Some shows are structured to work like that. Other shows like Game of Thrones, Black Sails, just aren't.

Do you just mean the typical laugh-track sitcom, as opposed to other types?

Yeah, I made television because I didn't think showsandmovies mod team was active. I was then headhunted to help out there. I don't know where television stands now though even if I think it has the best name for... well, tv-posting. Whilst I agree with "showsandmovies" is an odd name as its been repurposed for TV primarily... but it seems to be the most popular and developed.

But whilst you can obviously overlap to some degree, movies and tv are just as commonly separate communities so from 4 you can get at least 2.

!trailers should be, imo, on the sidebar of showsandmovies.

Can confirm. I've also seen Danger 5. Nothing quite like it, except for maybe their other projects.

Ah yes, I've seen that. Was well developed.

Can they not remotely activate chips?