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The total costs of my streaming services now equal a cable bill. We cut cable because that was a high cost with a lot of wasted filler. And now we're doing the same thing with streaming services for one or two shows off each service.
I thought that competition in the market might push some of the prices down but they're ticking upwards in some cases. This is more than mildly frustrating.
That's been an issue a lot of people are complaining about, yeah.
As more companies split off from Hulu or Netflix to make their own, it's only getting worse. It's stupid. People are looking at going BACK to cable with DVR. -
You just need to rotate services in and out depending on what you want to watch
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Or the market will... find its own ways.
Piracy, I'm talking about piracy. While there was just Netflix and it provided a great service for around $10 a month torrents and other streams were simply not worth the inconvenience. Try to cram 4+ services down people's throats and that is going to change very quickly.
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even writing screenplays for this different long format as we had TV before
This is one places where the differences can easily stand out, as we saw it very clearly when GoT went from 'premium TV long form writing' back to something more traditional TV-like. So it's not necessarily a guarantee in all cases, but I would say that the 'Golden Age of TV's biggest impact is definitely these long-form stories. It's also as big of a part of the problem the movie industry is having as streaming more broadly: people have gotten used to more meaty narratives, and can actually recognize that 2 hour adaptations of massive novels are often insufficient. Heck, people invest in the MCU because it's effectively a big screen premium TV show rather than the other way around.
Piracy, I'm talking about piracy. While there was just Netflix and it provided a great service for around $10 a month torrents and other streams were simply not worth the inconvenience. Try to cram 4+ services down people's throats and that is going to change very quickly.
Particularly the services that obviously don't have much value or content and thus have decided to 'force' you to stay subscribed by releasing their shows with a delay rather than all at once (looking at you 'already failed and subsumed by HBO' DC Universe). Intentional inconvenience is just begging people to just pirate them. And... I do (while simultaneously having things like Netflix).
You nail it with Netflix's convenience. This is also why the Disney service is actually a viable competitor: Netflix was buoyed every bit as much by people having a convenient way to watch The Office or Friends (and may suffer seriously without them) than its fancy originals, and now Disney(Fox) has things like The Simpsons along with a huge back catalog. Most people are not going to torrent dozens of seasons, but they will sit there and watch a season at a time when it just autoplays.
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Yeah, we're all spinning in circles flailing our arms about this right now .... and for the past four years. But right now in particular.
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welp the one Stephen King book/movie they need to remake isn't on the list.
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And Pratchett family have distanced themselves from the Night Watch...
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I used to quite like Arrow. I used to watch The Flash every week.
Then they jumped the shark, leapt off a cliff and got hit by several buses. I just tried to watch the latest seasons' first episodes and I couldn't even sit there for more than five minutes before cringing. Whyyyy. It's honestly shit.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel I didn't make it as far as you, I couldn't start Arrow, and I could only handle a season or two of weird wet blanket that runs fast.
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I was able to struggle through them up to last year, but I gave up this year.
It sounds like Legends of Tomorrow will be out of the big crossover loops for this year, though, so I'll stick with that. I love their complete ridiculousness. (Once you look at it as a sitcom, it improves considerably.)
Oh fucking well.
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I will watch The Mandalorian to the end of time if they keep this up. The companion alone is well worth watching it for.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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I still can't get over just how good The Mandalorian is.
So glad that Rogue One style Star Wars storytelling didn't die with that one movie.
A day (two weeks) old and a dollar short. I did want to reply to this.
I think its way more that Jon Favreau has fan understanding (he's a fan) and enough film appreciation to get part of the allure of the original SW. Its not a Star Wars series as it opens, so much as its a flick about a gun slinger that's just set in space with robots and technology. Its not a JJ Abram splosion spectacular. Early Western genre is as much an influence on Star Wars as Flash Gordon was, its a good medium for story telling with fewer words (the time span of a movie). He has enough savvy to not change what works, or he understands what could change enough and still be accepted (like once there was a Last Mandalorian, but there is now a few in some sort of revival, it works the western space genre is embraced) versus what is too much for some (I love Han Solo, but there are some pretty big shark jumps to make the movie that not all fans embraced). I think capturing this spaghetti western lone gunslinger surviving in the wilds spirit goes a long way for the Mandalorian and Jon Favreau, not only as a well versed director, but more importantly as a fan person of SW>
I'm just a surge protector doing my job, sir.
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@Lotherio I think it's the best kind of mix between Star Wars and Firefly. Or it could become just that, which would be amazing.
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@Lotherio Oh, it's totally a western (or a samurai story, which are really interchangeable re: Fistful of Dollars/Yojimbo, Magnificent 7/7 Samurai). It's really smartly done and is done by a man who likely grew up playing with the same action figures that I did.
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Another note:
I'm so fucking glad to see TV shows casting strong bodied women as strong bodied women.
I'm referring to Cara on Mandalorian and Draper on the Expanse, specifically. Sure, Milla Jovovich is strikey, which is exactly what a thin, scrappy, modelesque chick would have to do in a fight, but I'm so tired of bikini models getting cast in roles where their body type is all wrong. Cops, Marines, Soldiers? This ain't just cardio, there's a lot of body training involved and most female cops I know are tough, buff, and can take some shit.
So to see characters like Draper, played by Frankie Adams (who is 5'11" and is a healthy body weight and build) play roles that are supposed to be these badass women that guys like me would be smart to listen to when they say "get behind me and let me take care of this" is great. My family has girls who played boys high school football and do MMA. I'm glad to see actual tough girls in tough girl roles.
I read an article where Gina Carano (Cara in Mandalorian) was saying that she's grateful to Mando because she was getting passed over for action roles because she has big arms, big legs, and she was told that she wasn't the body type they wanted for the role.
Fuck that. I dont care how machismo I want to feel at any given time. I wouldn't wanna fight Carano, Frankie Adams, or Ronda Rousey and wouldn't feel one bit bad about them putting some dude in a bar who is giving me shit into a chokehold.
Positive improvement.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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I wouldn't wanna fight Carano, Frankie Adams, or Ronda Rousey
Nor would that fight last long.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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Fuck that. I dont care how machismo I want to feel at any given time. I wouldn't wanna fight Carano, Frankie Adams, or Ronda Rousey and wouldn't feel one bit bad about them putting some dude in a bar who is giving me shit into a chokehold.
I approve of the casting of actual fighters to play fighters.
