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I thought disjointed just got renewed, but that may be because I’ve been expecting the worst in everything since November 2016.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I thought disjointed just got renewed, but that may be because I’ve been expecting the worst in everything since November 2016. According to Kathy Bates on the WTF Podcast, season 1 was split into two halves, and the second half was supposed to be the good half. YEah, I'm not going back to that garbage pile.
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Feb 15, 2018 16:36
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I thought disjointed just got renewed, but that may be because I’ve been expecting the worst in everything since November 2016. Nope. What are other Netflix shows that got axed after one season?
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Feb 15, 2018 16:40
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zoux posted:Nope. What are other Netflix shows that got axed after one season? The Get Down and Girlboss come to mind. I think those might be it?
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Feb 15, 2018 16:44
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zoux posted:Nope. What are other Netflix shows that got axed after one season? Gypsy, Girlboss, The Get Down
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And Residue! Everyone always forgets Residue. 
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Feb 15, 2018 16:48
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It has all the ideas I liked about Star Trek without taking itself as seriously. A lot of Trek made the idea of exploring the unknown and seeing crazy poo poo and escaping via cleverness and bravado look really dull. Also considering it took like three years for TNG to "grow it's beard" the Orville actors and characters are already well ahead of their counterpart after just one short season. Bortus and Isaac especially are already so much better than Worf and Data were at that point just by having a modicum of humor and self-awareness and empathy.
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Feb 15, 2018 17:15
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The first season of Discovery is basically the production team being salty with the premise they inherited from Bryan Fuller so they decided to do a soft reboot instead. Fuller was going to do a more complete job of updating the asthethic for 2018 while retaining the core of the visual style, but he's pathologically incapable of being a showrunner it seems. I think we probably missed something very unique and special, but oh well. If the CBS Viacom merger goes through, they should just retcon Discovery into the movie universe and be done with it.
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Feb 15, 2018 17:38
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I feel bad for Fuller. He just seems like he's a dude who isn't willing to compromise his vision and drops out of projects when its clear he isn't going to get his way. It's a highly respectable quality as an artist, just not as a showrunner. The realities of compromise in Hollywood just seem a bit insurmountable if that's your attitude, unless you pull a Matthew Weiner and get a huge amount of bargaining power by having a huge hit show. Still, though, I think it's commendable, if a bit suicidal for his career. We should be cheering him on for wanting to make the highest quality products. We just can't, you know, get attached to any that aren't already in the can.
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Feb 15, 2018 17:56
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Discovery was a pretty big hit, but he was gone like instantly right?
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He left during preproduction, but the story and much of the writing was done under his watch. Though it's pretty far flung from his original concept, which was an anthology series where each season would jump around in time and tell a different story. I still really, really, really want that show.
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Feb 15, 2018 17:58
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Only the first three episodes had completed scripts. Everything beyond that was done by a new team including much of the production design. He also didn't like the director that CBS appointed, he wanted to have a big name director set the tone for the pilot and reached out to Edgar Wright. However, CBS said no and gave him a director who just does normal CBS procedural stuff.
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I started watching The Man in the High Castle and I have some questions and the thread for it is closed. I’m only on the first season so I’d appreciate minimal spoilers please. 1. Why does the Trade Minister seem to have so much power and influence? Wouldn’t this position be just the equivalent of Secretary of Commerce or something like that? 2. Did Julianna uhh, end up getting her job in the Japanese government building by blowing the dude? In the scene immediately after he unzips it looks like she ran away but then she ends up getting the job anyway.
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So I watched the first three 10 minute “episodes“ of Stargate origins. It’s bad.
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Can confirm it's really bad.
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Feb 15, 2018 21:51
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So you're not going to subscribe to their ridiculously expensive monthly Stargate-only streaming service to watch the rest? Uh-oh. I think I might have found a flaw in their plan!!
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I told my wife about the Stargate steaming service that there'd be a new show and she just shrugged and pointed at the SG1 and Atlantis boxsets we have. I think they really overestimated casual interest in the series, and somehow missed that all the megafans probably have access to all the episodes already anyway.
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Feb 15, 2018 22:09
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of Red Dwarf.
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Is there really a streaming service exclusively for Stargate? I mean, I enjoyed SG-1, but... Stargate? That's... ambitious?
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Feb 15, 2018 22:52
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Edward Mass posted:Today marks the 30th anniversary of Red Dwarf. I always had the idea that it was older. Not much older, I thought it started in 1986. Kind of crazy that Craig Charles was only 24 when it started because he doesn't seem that young in those Red Dwarf I episodes.
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Feb 15, 2018 22:56
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STAC Goat posted:Is there really a streaming service exclusively for Stargate? I mean, I enjoyed SG-1, but... Stargate? MGM has always bungled their handling of the series but the writing is on the wall for everyone to try their own streaming service in the next few years.
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Feb 15, 2018 22:59
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IRQ posted:MGM has always bungled their handling of the series but the writing is on the wall for everyone to try their own streaming service in the next few years. What I wanna know is do we just need to suffer through this for a few years until they all fail and we can get more reasonable services again, or is this just another casualty of our doomed capitalist society
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Feb 15, 2018 23:20
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Disney is going to double down on their streaming services. They already have a separate ESPN service, but they are going to do a kid friendly movie streaming one and another one on top of that.
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Feb 15, 2018 23:25
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When is some hero company going to come along and bundle all of these television services together into one package that I can pay $80/month for??
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Feb 15, 2018 23:26
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I wrote a big-rear end Facebook post about OTT streaming services, and I won't bore you by posting it here, but the main idea was that it's a bubble that's going to burst within five years. We already saw SeeSo fold, and that had Comcast backing it.
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Feb 15, 2018 23:38
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In fairness, everyone could see SeeSo folding the day it was started. Had good shows but so niche.
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Feb 15, 2018 23:43
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Edward Mass posted:I wrote a big-rear end Facebook post about OTT streaming services, and I won't bore you by posting it here, but the main idea was that it's a bubble that's going to burst within five years. We already saw SeeSo fold, and that had Comcast backing it. I'd read it
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 Edward Mass posted:I wrote a big-rear end Facebook post about OTT streaming services, and I won't bore you by posting it here, but the main idea was that it's a bubble that's going to burst within five years. We already saw SeeSo fold, and that had Comcast backing it. "backing it" But yeah, agreed. Seeso was just bad strategy. The scale was all wrong—the group they targeted was just too small to support the amount of content they'd need to keep happy. It is still a general concept that could be done really well if it were able to capture the right underserved market. Unfortunately they went after alt-comedy/podcast fans (probably because they're model ad customers) who are anything but starved for content. They could pay money for a niche service, sure. Or they could just keep listening to the same free content that caters to those same interests and sensibilities. Especially ones that keep getting those same guests promoting their Seeso shows, avoiding the need to pay for the content in the first place. How's that anime streaming one doing? I keep hearing about it in various places, it seems like that might be a really solid example of a sustainable streaming service.
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Feb 16, 2018 00:31
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If you're talking about VRV, it's pretty good, I just have no idea how profitable they can possibly be considering the number of different services consolidated under its roof.
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Boris Galerkin posted:1. Why does the Trade Minister seem to have so much power and influence? Wouldn’t this position be just the equivalent of Secretary of Commerce or something like that? Can't help you with the first one, though the second season does suggest that Tagomi doesn't really have all as much influence as the first season suggests. On point 2... She didn't blow him. The skeezy minister who was interviewing her ended up hiring Amy Okuda's character, who did blow him. Juliana was hired by Trade Minister Tagomi because of the incident in the corridor where he dropped her necklace, which he took to be an auspicious sign.
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zoux posted:Also, that awful Kathy Bates sitcom Disjointed got cancelled after only one season. It did? Season 2 popped up on Netflix a couple weeks ago
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Feb 16, 2018 01:25
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They split the season into two, wasn’t this already brought up in this thread?
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Feb 16, 2018 01:29
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I am pretty much the target audience for Seeso and really liked a lot of the stuff they had, but somehow I just never made any time to watch anything of theirs. They had all of Monty Python, SNL, and decent original content, but I don't think they advertised anywhere other than podcasts so I always forgot they were there unless I happened to forget to fast forward through ads while listening to CBB.
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Inspector 34 posted:I am pretty much the target audience for Seeso and really liked a lot of the stuff they had, but somehow I just never made any time to watch anything of theirs. They had all of Monty Python, SNL, and decent original content, but I don't think they advertised anywhere other than podcasts so I always forgot they were there unless I happened to forget to fast forward through ads while listening to CBB. The My Brother, My Brother, and Me show was very good and at only 6 episodes it didn't overstay its welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_IZlBoyN0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq7xIicAfWI
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Feb 16, 2018 01:47
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I think they were on Comedy Bang Bang promoting their show just a little bit before Seeso got shut down. I intended to watch, but then there was no more Seeso. Seemed like it caught everybody by surprise. Pretty sure the cast of Bajillion Dollar Properties was also on a bunch of podcasts promoting their latest season right before the shutdown too.
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Feb 16, 2018 02:04
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OK, I wrote this last June.me, on Facebook posted:Call me a curmudgeon, but I'm getting fed up with the sense of entitlement cord-cutters have. While it is a free country and you do not have to subscribe to cable or satellite, that does not give you the right to complain about the shows you can't watch. You gave up that right when you cut the cord.
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Feb 16, 2018 02:07
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Counterpoint. Per channel ala carte for premium content has existed for decades with HBO, Showtime, and Starz and they are doing just fine. The market will correct, but linear cable is dying on the vine regardless.
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Feb 16, 2018 02:56
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That Facebook post is... a bit lacking. spoiler: my posts are lacking
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Feb 16, 2018 03:15
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Finished watching Devilman Crybaby tonight and man, that's some ending.
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I've never been a Taylor Kitsch fan but Waco has completely turned me around. Just a phenomenal performance.
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