Win the Crowd: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"I wasn't the best because I could kill quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd, and you win your freedom."''|'''Proximo (Oliver Reed)''', ''[[Gladiator (~~Film~~)|Gladiator]]''}}

{{quote|''"I wasn't the best because I could kill quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd, and you win your freedom."''|'''Proximo (Oliver Reed)''', ''[[Gladiator (film)|Gladiator]]''}}

So the [[Coming Attractions]] got lots of people to watch the first episode of a new show. But is that enough to keep them watching?

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Plus the opening of the show is often crucial for this. That's why the first two to three minutes of a show almost invariably are either has a hook for the rest of the show, has a large percentage of the best jokes/tensest moments/biggest explosions, or has a combination of those. This is almost always where you will find the [[Quip to Black]].

Regardless, it's important to keep the viewers liking your show. Even [[Growing the Beard|it isn't immediate]], you can still make the show work eventually [[Network to ~~The~~ Rescue|if the suits see the potential]]. But that [[Screwed By the Network|can often be harder than winning the audience over]].

Regardless, it's important to keep the viewers liking your show. Even [[Growing the Beard|it isn't immediate]], you can still make the show work eventually [[Network to the Rescue|if the suits see the potential]]. But that [[Screwed by the Network|can often be harder than winning the audience over]].

Also beware of [[Pandering to ~~The~~ Base]].

Also beware of [[Pandering to the Base]].

Compare with [[Growing the Beard]] (which can also win viewers), [[Killer App]] (which wins the crowd for a system), [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]], and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

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* Many people don't like the first episode of ''[[Code Geass]]'' until the [[Anti-Hero|final]] [[Psychotic Smirk|few]] [[Magnificent Bastard|moments]].

* It gets a lot easier to get people into ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' after they get to the first psychotic outburst.

* It gets a lot easier to get people into ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' after they get to the first psychotic outburst.

* Assuming you don't [[Late Arrival Spoiler|already know how it goes]], let's just say you should watch ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' until the third episode before you decide whether or not to drop it.

* Many ''[[Gundam]]'' fans didn't start to enjoy ''[[Gundam AGE]]'' until they got to the last three episodes of the First Generation (that's [[Animation Bump|episodes]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|13]], [[Tear Jerker|14]], and [[Wham! Episode|15.]])

* Thanks to the [[Compressed Adaptation]], ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (~~Manga~~)|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'', is criticized for ''not'' winning the crowd until nearly twenty episodes, when it finally starts uncompressing. However, many critics and fans of the series let this slide considering the fact that the [[Growing the Beard|remaining forty episodes are widely hailed as some of the best animated television in recent memory]].

* Thanks to the [[Compressed Adaptation]], ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'', is criticized for ''not'' winning the crowd until nearly twenty episodes, when it finally starts uncompressing. However, many critics and fans of the series let this slide considering the fact that the [[Growing the Beard|remaining forty episodes are widely hailed as some of the best animated television in recent memory]].

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== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Star Trek ~~the~~ Next Generation]]'' won some fans by [[Trope Namer|growing the beard]] in the second season, won a few more with the acclaimed third season episodes, but with "The Best of Both Worlds", even the holdouts were won over.

* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' won some fans by [[Trope Namer|growing the beard]] in the second season, won a few more with the acclaimed third season episodes, but with "The Best of Both Worlds", even the holdouts were won over.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' achieved this when introducing the Daleks, resulting in a series that was originally going to run for just 13 weeks lasting for 26 years.

** Then, after 16 years of being off the air, ''came back'' and became even more ridiculously popular than it was during the old series and has been on for 5 years already.

* The first few episodes of ''[[~~Twenty Four|~~24]]'' were solid, but it was the sixth episode, where Janet York was murdered in her hospital bed by the man who, up until that point, the audience had believed to be her father and Jack Bauer was told his daughter had been kidnapped and would be killed if he didn't comply with the terrorist's instructions, that proved the show could live up to its hype.

* The first few episodes of ''[[24]]'' were solid, but it was the sixth episode, where Janet York was murdered in her hospital bed by the man who, up until that point, the audience had believed to be her father and Jack Bauer was told his daughter had been kidnapped and would be killed if he didn't comply with the terrorist's instructions, that proved the show could live up to its hype.

* The end of the second episode of ''[[Lost]]''.

== Web Comics ==

* It's been noted by both [[Schlock Mercenary ~~(Webcomic)~~|Howard Taylor]] and [[Girl Genius ~~(Webcomic)~~|Phil and Kaja Foglio]] that ''every single page'' of a webcomic has to be like this, since it's likely that for someone that one page is the only one they'll ever see. Given the length of the average webcomic page, more than likely it will fill up most of that space.

* It's been noted by both [[Schlock Mercenary|Howard Taylor]] and [[Girl Genius|Phil and Kaja Foglio]] that ''every single page'' of a webcomic has to be like this, since it's likely that for someone that one page is the only one they'll ever see. Given the length of the average webcomic page, more than likely it will fill up most of that space.

== Video Games ==

* An [[In Universe]] example is the [[Play Station 2]] game, ''[[Shadow of Rome]]'', where the segments that have you play as Agrippa the gladiator requires you to have a lot of flash and impressive moves, because if you play for speed and simple efficiency, the crowd wouldn't like your performance and it's [[Game Over]].

* An [[In-Universe]] example is the [[Play Station 2]] game, ''[[Shadow of Rome]]'', where the segments that have you play as Agrippa the gladiator requires you to have a lot of flash and impressive moves, because if you play for speed and simple efficiency, the crowd wouldn't like your performance and it's [[Game Over]].

* In Chapter 3 of ''[[~~Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|~~Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]'', you have to defeat your opponents in a particularly spectacular manner in order to advance to the next rank.

* In Chapter 3 of ''[[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]'', you have to defeat your opponents in a particularly spectacular manner in order to advance to the next rank.