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Well, that begs the question... what metric (if any) is FX using to assess the show's "success"? Are they looking at total minutes watched, average viewership, the trendline for average viewership episode-to-episode, social media engagement, review aggregator score, etc. Have they set realistic and achievable targets for whatever metrics they're using? Is the budget and/or licensing going to be caught up in the rampdown of Hulu as it is slowly absorbed into the Disney+ service? If Jimmy cracks corn and nobody cares, why does he keep doing it? These questions are examples of how it's much harder to judge if a streaming original series is a success or not since it's not dependent on publicly-accessible performance records like the Nielsen ratings. FX is obviously going to accentuate the positive for the press because the show wasn't a complete disaster, but it's anyone's guess if they'll actually renew the series for a second season and Noah Hawley could very easily end up with (ironically) egg all over his face having crafted one of the worst and most obnoxious cliffhangers in television history only to not get renewed.
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As fun as it is to paint them as the villain for all sorts of reasons, I think it just all comes down to them doing everything in their power to min-max their profit margins. If they can make a quick-turn reboxing of the 171 with minimal new parts molding, and pass it off as the companion to their Fire Valk? You bet they're going to do everything they can to minimize the effort and expense involved. I frankly would have rather had straight repaints of the 171, but it is what it is, and if Bandai can be trusted to do one thing, it's that they'll never backtrack or admit their mistakes or bad decisions, no matter how obvious or stupid.
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It could possibly be that the engineers are younger and appreciate an anorexic aesthetic versus or desire of a THICC Valkyrie. Just a thought.
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https://twitter.com/Mrk_arcadia/status/1971717379974746409 web-translated:
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Me thinks Bandai is quite capable of such. Unfortunately, they're just actively and deliberately not willing to do so.
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Them white landing-gears are just extra leftovers from the HMR Fire-Valk.. Seems to be totally unaltered. Not painting them proper grey or so while jacking up the HMR VF-19P's msrp as TWE is just the usual and regular Bandai penny-pinching nickel-n-dime tactics...
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If Bandai was capable of makes the legs thicker on the YF-21. Why wouldn’t they have just reengineered the legs on VF-17? I get the whole “save money” mantra but this is pure laziness. When have we not purchased high end items? This is Macross, buying expensive toys and related items is all we do. Saving money is not an option. Put out something great…we will buy it without a second thought. C’mon Bandai, you can do a WHOLE LOT BETTER.
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Valid points. If Bandai insisted on reusing the 171, and I'm sure we discussed this 15 years ago when the 171 debuted, they should at least get all the different details of the 17 right. Had they started with the 1/65, we could have had one where the gun actually tucked into the leg! Unfortunately, I don't think the 17 has a huge following so half-hearted was as much as Bandai was willing to invest.
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I haven't looked up the 171 lore so i don't have a dispute with you there, but comparing the CG valks found in Frontier/Delta vs. M7, I'm going to call B.S. on this specific point. the VF-1 in Frontier and Delta that is done in CG looks exactly the same vs. M7, specially, the legs of the valk between Frontier, Delta and M7 are drawn identically. If that's the case in point I would think the vf-1 would be more chonky or see a difference between M7 and the later CG models. for reference: M7 Ep. 14 MacF Ep.1 Delta Ep.3
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Those kits are interesting. I wasn't aware that those were available in that scale. I'm very tunnel vision about 1/72 these days.
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What this release feels like.
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I’m pretty sure there will be a second season more due to viewership than positive or negative feedback. I think it will end up like how all the hate watching got rings of power renewed. People really hated the show, but even though it wasn’t the best as far as viewership, that still was enough for them to keep it going despite the hate. I’m not saying they should try for another open ending, because I don’t think season two will have as many people watching
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The VF-1 often had them gray, but not that dark
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Not a bad price for fife of those kits. Pretty cool find
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hah, didn't think it was coming out that quickly, but okay. I guess we'll probably watch it in theater if it's possible on christmas....we kind of do that as a tradition in my family while the christmas dinner is cooking.
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I just double checked news outlets and pop culture related sites, there's still no announcement by FX if they'll produce a 2nd season. I'd say this is really up in the air. This series was more divisive than Romulus was. Hell I'd say the majority of us here on this thread have not necessarily a distain but very much a cringe for this series as it kept going....at first showing some promise then quickly dropping down to a frustrated level of dislike for it. The story just couldn't gain any decent pacing shifting to many different plot points that dealt more with weak drama and character development to possibly save money over visual effects and horror. If this series got a season 2, I would be some what surprised due to this being a Hulu tied in series, and that being discontinued here shortly leaving FX's future I think a lil uncertain.
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I probably heard about him talking possibilities and misremembered it.
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I'm not sure Amazon is going to follow through.
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Hopefully, this OK to place here. This is at my local hobby shop and thought you collector/model builders might be interested: https://houseofhobbies.com/products/nichimo-1-200-regult-tactical-pod-combo-pack-5-nos-open-box-nc5c Not my scale, but may be of interest to others. Cheers
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Nope, they haven't. I checked. Checked again before writing this too just to see if there'd been any updates. Forbes, RottenTomatoes, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, etc. all confirm that there has been no announcement or confirmation that a second season is in the works as recently as two days ago. Moreover, Noah Hawley himself has apparently indicated in several interviews (incl. Entertainment Weekly) that he is "in talks" with FX about the possibility of a second season but that there hasn't been any commitment from FX's side.
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They still need to fix a few issues on it to be honest.
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Was a little behind this week and finally got to the final episode of the season. It’s a pretty lame one since I kinda feel that we didn’t get much further than the episode before. We basically left off where we left off, but slightly worse. I till like the eye guy best. But I kinda hoped for more. I just watch it as a comedy and it really does help. Definitely can’t trust RT these days, but I at least enjoyed this show far more than Into Darkness and I really hate Rings of Power. He’s kinda the oddball character that doesn’t care what’s going on or is completely ignorant to all the horrors around him. He probably won’t even know the difference when the island gets taken over by Yutani and gets a new boss. He’ll just keep washing away I think they already announced it a few episodes back, like after the second or third episode, since I guess it has a pretty big audience. Not sure if that audience is loving the show or hate watching it or like me and just finding entertaining enough to want to see where things go
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Love the evil crazy Na’vi, Varang.
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The brown is very Golgothan. Can’t wait to see it in full color and can’t wait for the rerelease of Dogma but seriously, that’s gonna add an interesting organic texture, especially since these things were armored with giant bug carapace chunks
