Longer Season Finales | Voters

Longer Season Finales

Artemis

25 minute episodes are great for numbers, ad sense, and viewers retention. But a longer season finale or even a special long episode during the climax and ending on a cliff hanger. But giving the fans one episode as either a build up, or resolution that's longer.

January 24, 2022

Matthias

Season finales are pretty tough episodes already. I think it would be pretty difficult to make them longer without skipping out on other videos or uploading less. In other words, we only have the bandwidth to upload a certain amount of content a week regardless of how many episodes we produce. Usually that hangs around 60-80 minutes when production is in full swing. When it is in the future, if we were to make episodes longer for the finale, it would mean we skip an episode before that.

Is that still worth it to you? Would you prefer longer episodes in the finale or more consistent uploads?

Matthew Stearns

Matthias: if it was sacrificing the second to last week for a longer, more in depth season finale I would be ok with that, it would build up the season finale as well by giving the audience 2 weeks to squirm over what’s going to happen

Artemis

Matthew Stearns: i agree with Matthew. Maybe its a nostalgia to TV shows there is this build up intensifying built up. Season finales are either giant cliff hangers to the next season or theyre resolution both situations shouldnt be rushed. There should be a celebration of the season and in my opinion should aim to be the best episode (next to the opening.) Reminding the audience how big of an adventure we have been on through the season and why they should continue to watch into the next season. This shouldnt be treated like an ordinary episode.

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Matthias: I would be ok to skip an epidode to have a longer/better final episode

A Loyal Subject 4

Matthew Stearns: agreed

Matthew Stearns

I also know that the team has gone with vlog style videos, along the same lines as making the season finales longer, maybe have these be the rare occasions where they bring in someone to film them if it makes sense for the team. I know they got away from using a camera person due to them only shooting for about two hours a week and it's understandable, but I personally think they did a great job in season two with the cinematic approach.

Trey S

I totally agree with this!!