• barrbaric [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    You'd think it wouldn't cost much to just keep hosting the shows that already exist on some streaming service but whatever, 🏴‍☠️ stay winning

    • daisy
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      2 years ago

      There's more than just server hosting costs to consider. There's also any residuals to be paid to actors, plus the administration costs to figure out the residuals costs. I'm certain that some soulless beancounter(s) ran some numbers on it all, and couldn't provide a clear "hosting these will not lose money" case to some VP.

      • AlkaliMarxist
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        2 years ago

        Also licensed music and some of these are existing IPs which surely require more payouts to use.

  • dat_math [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    THEY CANCELLED PRODIGY? IT WAS THE BEST TREK CURRENTLY RUNNING!

    • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Really? I bounced off of it pretty hard, and I've found every other new series at least watchable. Did it get better after the first couple episodes?

      • dat_math [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I really liked the first few episodes, so idk how useful my review is, but I loved the whole thing except for

        spoiler

        the episode with the shenanigans at the spaceport on the icy planet and parts of the episode where Dal does some experimentation on his genetics

      • dat_math [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        They tried to port the feel of Avatar the last airbender to the star trek universe and it was dope as fuck

          • dat_math [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            I'm so fucking sad about this :/ wasn't production effectively complete with a planned release this summer?

            • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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              2 years ago

              The new season will complete post-production, and the studio will be looking for a new home for Star Trek: Prodigy as season one comes off the service shortly.

              Fingers crossed we still see it, I guess.

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Kids escaping a slave colony of sorts on a Federation Starship that they find. The starship has a Hologram Janeway that treats them as cadets and occasional hijinks ensue over a broader, more serious story.

          • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            It was way better than I expected it to be. dat_math is totally on the nose about the ATLA feel.

            • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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              2 years ago

              I think Star Wars has a similar show coming up. Skeleton Crew, I believe it's called.

                • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  I might be too, but I'm not quite sure. I want to see Andor all the way through but I don't know how I feel about the franchise as a whole right now.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I just had a alex-aware kinda thought on all these already existing content deletions:

    Could this be porky-happy way of reintroducing time-based scarcity to video content?

    Like, "you'd better watch everything as soon as you can, instead of 'when you get around to it'" as a way to trick people into increased consumption patterns.

    I assume the actual cause is just 0.01% increased share price for the next 15 minutes or something like that, but this was just a way that capitalism is probably going to make things worse I hadn't considered before, that seemed worth sharing.

  • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Star Trek: Prodigy?

    Damn, missed one.

    I'm thinking of watching Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, at the very least.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It's because they made a woke show about the ladies of Grease. That movie was famously for the fellas and to not focus on Danny Zuko in the reboot shows that the producers were woke-pandering.

  • UlyssesT
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    2 months ago

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  • CommieAVGN [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    What the fuck!? All these are fucking canceled at Paramount+? That's bullshit. And why the hell are they taking a content write-down? Are they some kind of pussy-ass company that can't take risks? Fuck that shit. Canceling shows before they even have a chance to fucking breathe? That's fucking insane.

    This just proves that capitalism is a huge fucking joke. The people in charge only care about money, not about giving people quality entertainment. Fuck Paramount+ and their corporate bullshit.