Talk:On Cinema

"On Cinema" versus "On Cinema at the Cinema"

Paragraph three incorrectly referred to the podcast as "On Cinema at the Cinema." Before making the transition from podcast to video format, the program was only referred to as "On Cinema." The 'at the Cinema' portion was accordingly removed. It's also worth mentioning the "bags of popcorn" rating system didn't arise until the video series started, though the article currently implies otherwise.

Misc

> Juliana gets an abortion, while Tim reveals on Twitter that he has left Ayaka for good after she cheated on him with an African American man.[8]

That's not what that tweet was about, someone was tweeting out pictures of fake (or real?) divorce papers from Tim and his actual real life wife. You can't see it cause the previous tweet was deleted, but this was not about ayaka and had nothing to do with OCatC universe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.212.3.4 (talk) 19:36, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

TNT

Hello R9tgokunks, Kianworld, Rekameohs, and VaughnEarp. You four appear to have made the largest contributions to this page. The page appears to have significant issues and I'm proposing a WP:TNT. I want to outline some of my reasons first. There isn't a single inline citation between the beginning of the Premise section until the end of the subsection dedicated to Season 9. That's a block of over 5,000 words, more than 50 paragraphs, and nearly four entire sections made up of dozens of subsections. Not to mention that Seasons 11 and 13 don't have a single inline citation and large swaths of the rest of the article is poorly sourced or in some cases WP:REFBOMBed like at the end of the Reception and Touring sections. There's no way that anyone could honestly claim this isn't WP:BLOATED, WP:OR, and WP:FANCRUFT. I wanted to discuss the TNT before making edits that might get reverted. So what are your thoughts? TipsyElephant (talk) 20:13, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

I'm not sure about blowing it up, but I've definitely noticed the article's got incredibly bloated. I'm aware not particularly helping in that regard when I add more info from the new episodes.

Alternative suggestions: Feels like there maybe should be a separate page for On Cinema characters at this point. The show seems to add a new major recurring character every season now.

The season summaries get especially bloated as the show goes on (again, partially my fault!). Maybe those can be converted into episode summaries in the List of On Cinema episodes page? Just thinking about how shows like Barry have quite detailed summaries in their Episodes sections. The episode page already is a little bloated with the (messy) popcorn rating charts, those can be moved into the episode summaries if they're made. Put a very rough concept of what a revamped Episodes page could look like in my sandbox.

Probably whenever the article was first written there wasn't much articles about this series but now there's definitely more from sites like Vulture and Paste, as well as a whole recap book. Would citing specific episodes work as an inline citation, too? Something like the episode number and a YouTube link to the episode. I admit I'm not great at citing stuff... or knowing what any of the WP terms mean. kianworld (talk) 22:04, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

I've been adding more to my sandbox since the 1st. I'm trying to condense the season summaries down a bit, while citing episodes using the TV episode citation template. Basically only trying to include plot content that actually has a lasting effect. I keep re-revising it and removing more sentences the more I look at it.

I also fleshed out the per-episode summaries I suggested for the List of On Cinema episodes page some more. Still a WIP. kianworld (talk) 06:37, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

@Kianworld: Generally Wikipedia is supposed to reflect what reliable secondary sources say about a subject, not what the subject thinks of themselves and not what you personally think about the subject. The recap book could be used to support various statements in the plot, but the contributors to the book are the creators of the show. You can use primary sources like this, but having a super long plot section is unhelpful to the average reader and provides way more information than what is needed. You can't provide your own commentary or opinion on the show using a primary source per WP:PRIMARY which says that "Any interpretation of primary source material requires a reliable secondary source for that interpretation". You also can't use sources published by the On Cinema crew for "unduly self-serving" purposes per WP:ABOUTSELF. Unless you can provide reliable secondary sources for each season of the show than they should probably be reduced to a few sentences each (like three to five sentences in one paragraph) and the same goes for each of the character sections. Otherwise WP:UNDUE weight is given to the primary sources. Just because Barry jumps off a cliff doesn't mean we should too; it's very likely that Barry needs shorter episode descriptions as well. TipsyElephant (talk) 16:40, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

I understand completely. I was curious about Barry because those episode descriptions are definitely longer than most I see around here (and every episode of the show has its own article so if anything, that makes the length of each synopsis more surprising). Seems like that's a problem with a lot of recent show pages, shows like Severance and Tuca & Bertie have gotten quite wordy with their episode synopses , too.

I'll try to slim down the per season synopsis even more in my sandbox, and try to find articles from sources like New York Magazine (aka Vulture) that might help. Already spent time removing plot points that don't really go anywhere or have lasting effects (like Tim impregnating Juliana) and condensing other plot points. Still planning on reworking the List of On Cinema episodes page to make it visually look better and provide a very brief synopsis per episode. Probably just a sentence or two plus the "popcorn ratings" given in the episode, with some more detail for their various specials. I also don't actually own a copy of that On Cinema book so I can't really cite anything from it. No e-book version.

Will also try slimming down the characters section, too. Tim and Gregg definitely need two or so paragraphs but maybe not the 4 or 5 they currently have. Wendy Kerby and John Aprea have proven to be rather minor characters compared to the others in the show, too, I can try to immensely slim down their sections. First time I've ever tried helping in a massive re-write like this. Still working exclusively in my sandbox for now. kianworld (talk) 21:12, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Separation Of Seasons

Is there any internal logic to the way the page separates seasons? It makes sense to break them up based on the different incarnations of the show (i.e. Adult Swim era, HEI era) or to just give each season its own subheader. Alvinfwang42 (talk) 20:38, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

I think either way works. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:44, 20 March 2024 (UTC)