Jan 8, 2019, 11:27 PM

@thenomain said in Good TV:

You know, it just occurred to me: It's possible Netflix is cancelling the Marvel shows because Marvel wants the characters for potential movie outlets.

We'll never know, but it makes as much sense as Netflix not wanting to admit if the shows were too costly.

I think it's a little of Column A, a little of Column B. The Marvel shows are a big investment for Netflix, and Disney launching their own streaming service and putting Runaways on Hulu and Cloak & Dagger on (Disney owned) Freeform also sent some signals, I'm sure. Netflix probably saw the writing on the wall and decided to get out before there was any more financial commitment to the series' (i.e. maximize the money they'd put in).

For their own part, I think these are pieces of a larger plan for Disney. They've got a chance at a fully unified TV/Movie universe once the Fox merger goes through, along with the perfect vehicle for an overall reboot of the movie & TV franchises with Endgame. And the biggest single complaint about the Marvel TV shows has been that there's not greater interconnection between the TV series and the movies; a consequence of Ike Perlmutter getting his undies in a wad and trying to engage in a penis-measuring contest with Kevin Feige (Perlmutter is in charge of Marvel TV and a member of the Board since before the Disney buyout). So while the cancellations might be directly Netflix, I'd wager good money that Disney's been dropping enough subtle and unsubtle hints to guide Netflix in that direction.