[smith7018]

Many people still read novels. I live in NYC and see numerous people read books and Kindles every day on the train.

> Even cinema is dying and nobody seems to care that much

It's being replaced with an even longer form of visual media; the mini series. Stories that used to be told in an hour and a half are now being told in 8 hour-long segments

[flenserboy]

which could, for the most part, be boiled down to 2 hour-long segments. so much is stretched out for the sake of padding. the good news is that scrubbing through shows is possible — it is usually painfully clear when to stop & watch at double speed — & time otherwise lost is recovered in this way.

[nchmy]

If you were watching quality material, you wouldn't be scrubbing through it...

Eg I've just finished watching Andor for the 3rd time, normal speed.

[deadbabe]

Not really.

Movies are good for plot oriented stories, with clear beginning, middle, and end.

But they are not ideal for more character driven or lore oriented content.

Long slow burning stories told over many episodes let you really show many facets of characters and also opportunities to hint at a much larger world than what can be shown within 2 hours.

[black_knight]

I miss when episodes were episodic. Watched Deep Space 9 recently, and it was such a blast: Characters developed and had arches, but there were no episodes where nothing happened! In more recently produced tv series there are so many episodes where nothing happens. There is no story, just vibes. In DS9 every episode was a story with a beginning, middle and end, exploring some idea.

[bluGill]

TV has always been about characters - they couldn't do a plot well because they well knew regular viewers would once in a while not be able to watch an episode and so they can't found on your knowing what happened last time - people would miss. TV needed a way to get people to watch as many shows as possible, and that meant getting you involved in the characters, and write stories that could be watched in any order.

Movies meanwhile had a long time between the next one and so you couldn't get people deeply involved in the characters. However you had enough to pull off a slightly complex plot and so that is what movies did.

[uncivilized]

You’ve drawn the wrong conclusion. People still read on the train because there is rarely phone signal when underground. If phones were internet capable during commutes, you’d see a lot less books.

[esseph]

> It's being replaced with an even longer form of visual media; the mini series

Short form video on YouTube, TikTok, and various AI short form video apps are also spiking in popularity.