Is anyone else far more interested in Marvel's Nexflix plan? Not saying it will necessarily be better, but at least with that I can find out all at once, and if it's good enough I'll watch it all in a week (and go back every so often if it's worthwhile); if it's bad I'll stop watching a few episodes in.
With something like Gotham I'll probably keep watching for a few weeks, it'll hold my interest for a bit, but eventually that will wain. The same thing happened with Smallville, and many other network shows. Aside from 24 I don't think there's a single network show I've watched to its finality since Lost back in the day. Meanwhile I'm linked to the end with True Detective, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Justified, American Horror Story, etc and was for Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Wire, and The Sopranos. Even in the case of Dexter I still watched in every week, after I became invested early on.
Maybe it's because I expect more out of Marvel as well, and I can't wait to see what Vincent D'Onofrio brings to the role as Kingpin. Plus with the DC universe we already know there is going to be bigger iterations of almost most of the shows they have on the air, but the same may not apply for Daredevil, Luke Cage, and hopefully Punisher if they go that route with him. So I'm looking forward to see what that universe can offer, but Gotham (and the like) is going to have to do that much better to have me be a viewer eight months from now.
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