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The Office recently cycled back around from season 9 to season 1 so I've been watching the earlier seasons, and wow -- I never realized just how much of Pam's character is disliking Roy & liking/loving Jim. Seriously, what are her personality traits? Art is a hobby/interest, so it doesn't quite count. Roy is an inconsiderate airheaded chud with a heart of gold, while Jim is a sarcastic, obsessive bully -- what the hell is Pam?  Lots and lots and lots of shows with heterosexual couples forget to give the woman a personality, and maybe it's extra obvious on The Office because every other couple (except Darryl/Val  ) is an exception to that rule.edit: I bet this is stuff people have brought up before since they aren't exactly groundbreaking observations and the show is well over a decade old, I just need a place to vent and I've only recently started picking it apart YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Aug 19, 2022 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:
This is probably the thing I'm most sad about.
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Yeah, that and Fired On Mars were the two animated HBO shows I was most looking forward to.
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muscles like this! posted:I just don't get how it was available for sale and Amazon didn't try to spend all the money to get it. As far as I understand it, this deal only encompasses the LOTR and Hobbit novel rights - the movie rights are with Warner, and the expanded universe (Silmarillion, Children of Hurin) lies with the Tolkien estate. So, in the case where Amazon wants to make a new show that is set way before the novels and is not directly related to those stories outside of characters mentioned in the appendices (which is the only stuff they actually can use, not sure how those rights work), buying the rights to the novels wouldn't really make much of a difference for them. It would only really allow them to make new spin-offs set DURING the time of LOTR and The Hobbit, but without anything you'd recognize from the existing films, so it doesn't seem particularly worthwhile. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Aug 19, 2022 |
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Netflix has released a bonus Sandman episode, adapting A Dream of a Thousand Cats and Calliope.
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God dammit Netflix I’m trying to cross shows off my list don’t add extra episodes the day after I finish the season Otherwise: very cool!!!!
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I thought Sandman was pretty uneven, but goddamn The Sound of Her Wings was a great episode. And also almost entirely self-contained which is a weird thing to say about a Netflix show. If nothing else that made the whole thing worth it for me.
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SimonChris posted:Netflix has released a bonus Sandman episode, adapting A Dream of a Thousand Cats and Calliope. Hakkesshu posted:I thought Sandman was pretty uneven, but goddamn The Sound of Her Wings was a great episode. And also almost entirely self-contained which is a weird thing to say about a Netflix show. If nothing else that made the whole thing worth it for me. Sandman is really at it's best with short arcs and single issue stories. Someone said Morpheus is basically the Cryptkeeper and that is true. I'm looking forward to more stories like these (Emperor Norton is another great one).
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Today I learned that I have no idea who is who when it comes to Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Paul WS Anderson. 
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Read After Burning posted:Today I learned that I have no idea who is who when it comes to Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Paul WS Anderson. Paul WS Anderson makes masterpieces, that’s all you need to know
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Paul WS Anderson makes masterpieces, that’s all you need to know I hella confused my partner with "that director that makes all the quirky twee movies" and he just stared at me and went "....Resident Evil is quirky and twee?"
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Wes: super twee bespoke PTA: 70s Los Angeles nostalgia Paul WS: Married to Milla Jovovich. If you see her in a movie then it's a 50% chance he directed it.
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Mu Zeta posted:Paul WS: Married to Milla Jovovich. Clearly the most talented/successful of the bunch.
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https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1560672440040161280 Did Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham purchase HBOMax
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Are they just dumping these for other networks to pick up or shelving them in a closet but keeping the rights so the creators have no options?
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pentyne posted:Are they just dumping these for other networks to pick up or shelving them in a closet but keeping the rights so the creators have no options? They have to dumpster them to ensure they count as writeoffable "lost profits"
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There was a Business Insider (I think) article that explained the write off process for these media properties. I think it's called a "write down" in this case and if they are written down they are legally unable to release them in any way that makes money.
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Rhyno posted:There was a Business Insider (I think) article that explained the write off process for these media properties. I think it's called a "write down" in this case and if they are written down they are legally unable to release them in any way that makes money. That includes selling them, btw. They're not allowed to sell anything they "write down". Which is why the only way you'll ever see Batgirl is if someone over there leaks it. Only not like the Deadpool leak, which was done to drive up interest in making a full movie, since there is no incentive here to do anything real with it. So I guess more like the Roger Cormon F4 leak, which was leaked just for shits and giggles by someone, I think? Which is also why I'm sure this Sesame Street thing doesn't apply. They just stopped airing a portion (less than half) of their episodes. It's not the same thing that they did with Batgirl and Scoob 2, which were "write downs".
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Then they just did it so they didn't have to pay residuals? Dicks.
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At some point it has to backfire right? Like enough people stop renewing and a loss of subscribers has to be worse for them right?
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are they cutting things that people are going to care about in bulk?
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Aye Doc posted:are they cutting things that people are going to care about in bulk? Probably the other way around. By cutting so much they're going to hit a few things for a lot of people and gently caress up their reputation. There was a write up about 10 years ago about Fox becoming "The Network That Cancels All The Good Shows I Like" and how they hit a point for a few years where every new debut of theirs failed to launch because so many people just assumed it'd get canceled and didn't want to get invested in it. I'd imagine that they're going to go back to old HBO where people hop on for a month or two to watch what they want and then bounce unless they're a fanatic for certain shows.
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Yeah, and their choice just not to explain the metrics / logic behind this at all, even with some sort of dumb obvious lie, just really isn't helping their case. It's just inviting confusion and frustration. feel like poo poo just want my forty year old lady pretends to be a closeted teen boy comedy show
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I wonder how the contract to sell Sesame Street to HBO was worded, and I can only hope it matches the granddaddy of all in perpetuity contracts: The 700 Club will always be on
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, and their choice just not to explain the metrics / logic behind this at all, even with some sort of dumb obvious lie, just really isn't helping their case. It's just inviting confusion and frustration. The problem is probably that saying too much about it makes them look horrible. This CNBC writeup I jacked from another thread has unsourced inside info that's consolidating the rumors that were floating around. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/19/heres-why-hbo-max-is-pulling-dozens-of-films-and-tv-series-from-its-streaming-platform.html Aside from the full on tax write offs they want to gut a bunch of content to weasel out of paying residuals which is not going to play well with people who liked the shows...and it's a lot of shows. And also they just don't want to do kids content anymore, apparently. Which is an interesting choice considering they own Cartoon Network. That seems like a really harsh change in direction that'll piss off a lot of people and remove value for parents right before they do the merger and presumably jack up the price. Guess it's easier than just advertising the service though. I also thought they mostly saved Seasame Street for goodwill purposes, but maybe they think that well has ran dry. And also if the article is right they just assume people want less content. It's just decluttering. Sure, they could make a better discovery interface but if there are a lot less shows then it's easier to find what you want to watch *tap head meme*.
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Sesame Street streaming on HBO Max always felt like a weird marriage.
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STAC Goat posted:Sesame Street streaming on HBO Max always felt like a weird marriage. Ironically, Sesame Street on Discovery+ would be perfectly on brand.
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Halfway through season 3 of search party and I’m kinda wondering what the theme/point is of the show. dorys family was just on the tv show. My take is that the theme is everyone is just fake and will do whatever they can to self persevere for their best interests. Maybe it’s something to do with millennials can do no wrong since the parents are protecting her on the show as well? I dunno-just getting tired of it and not sure where else they can go. Dory is also getting annoying by how “smart” she comes across if that makes sense? nwin fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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Anywhere you think the show is going is probably very wrong.
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Everywhere. That show goes everywhere and always tops itself. If you think it has gone far enough it will always go further.
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The Rehearsal got renewed for season 2, despite them having no idea what a season 2 would even look like https://tvline.com/2022/08/19/the-rehearsal-renewed-season-2-hbo-nathan-fielder/
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swickles posted:At some point it has to backfire right? Like enough people stop renewing and a loss of subscribers has to be worse for them right? If nothing else it'll pretty much ensure no creative types will ever want to do business with them again, which I imagine is probably even more disastrous for them in the long run. WBD isn't the only game in town and everyone who hasn't been living under a rock must know by now that any project they greenlight is basically a rugpull scam waiting to happen. They'll go to whoever can promise and deliver checks that won't bounce, even if that means putting up with the House of Mouse.
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Mu Zeta posted:Paul WS: Married to Milla Jovovich. If you see her in a movie then it's a 50% chance he directed it. I once heard Paul WS explained as,"Guy who just wants to make movies showing off how awesome his wife is" and I gotta say, I respect the hell out of that.
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The ending to the first season of The Rehearsal was absolutely terrific
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STAC Goat posted:Sesame Street streaming on HBO Max always felt like a weird marriage. It's been an HBO show since 2016 so it's not like it's a new thing.
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STAC Goat posted:Sesame Street streaming on HBO Max always felt like a weird marriage. Yeah, although HBO is a lot more accessible now that it's just another streaming network. If I put myself back in kid me's shoes it's still wild that you can get HBO and the Disney Channel on demand for a flat monthly fee instead of having to buy premium cable and extra packages.
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dorium posted:The ending to the first season of The Rehearsal was absolutely terrific Absolutely wreaked havoc with my emotions. Holy poo poo dude
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nwin posted:Halfway through season 3 of search party and I’m kinda wondering what the theme/point is of the show. Obviously YMMV but I just got to S5 and it's still pretty wild. It changes significantly every season so maybe S4 would be more interesting.
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