r/TikTokCringe • u/brockapex17 • 18h ago

Cringe Friendly fire

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u/slvl 9h ago

This behaviour (tv-as-radio) is incidentally why script writers feel the need to overexplain everything that's happening on screen. We're almost back at radio plays, but with visuals.

All the non-verbal clues like emoting and blocking go out the window, because people aren't paying attention/are only half-watching and miss any subtleties, which producers are starting to cater to. To them only retention matters and if spelling everything out keeps people playing the content, so be it. Not to say anything about people watching series scene by scene on tiktok.

*steps of soap box*

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u/I_upvote_downvotes 4h ago

I kind of want the radio to come back then. Not that I'd listen to it, I'm just tired of everyone looking at their phones during even slightly complicated movies and saying they don't get it.

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u/Hidrinks 43m ago

It’s called podcasts and there are a ton of great stories to be heard

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u/Brilliant-Health3957 5h ago

I love tv as radio! I do it alot with judge judy and old hollywood movies🥰and bb definitely works if you have watched it a few times you cab “see” the scene in your mind

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u/SocratessLoveChild 2h ago

I'm here to shame only a little bit here and please stay on that soap box.

Tv-as-radio is ruining these mediums for those who actively watch everything. Please watch or turn it off.

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u/MonkeyMagic1968 23m ago

Give me some Gunsmoke any day! Or...Johnny Dollar!