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  1. azrael
    Streaming services have known about VPN-usage longer than you think. They're more focused on password sharing (i.e. free-loaders).
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    Remember, studios, like Disney, are looking at the numbers. Always the numbers. The numbers tell the cold truth. Low word-of-mouth leads to less views leads to less subscribers. And with little chance that they will make a Blu-ray collection of this series that no one wanted to watch, there is no real way to recoup the cost. Again, watch Matt Damon's interview on Hot Ones. Before streaming, studios could recoup the costs by releasing collections to physical media. But with less and less emphasis on physical media these days (thanks streaming), there is fewer ways to recoup the cost of shows that do badly. So the bar to reach to avoid cancellation is now significantly higher.
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    ‘The Acolyte’ Canceled: No Season 2 For Disney+’s ‘Star Wars’ Series (Deadline.com) If you look at the ratings on IMDB, it's almost a Bell-curve with episode 5 being the most well-received.
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    Matt Damon went over how Hollywood makes money when he was on Hot Ones a few years back. https://fandomwire.com/i-would-have-to-make-100-million-before-i-got-into-profit-matt-damon-has-an-answer-for-angry-fans-who-trash-hollywood-for-not-making-good-movies-anymore/ Hot Ones, w/ Matt Damon; How Hollywood "gambles" on productions Hot Ones, w/ Matt Damon; How Hollywood makes money with the advent of streaming vs physical media releases
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    I think it will be a good show for younger audiences. If it only touches the larger Filoni-era stories and be more self-isolated, even better. Me?
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    Saw on post of r/macross; can any Aussies members confirm some Macross 7 is coming next week? Source: https://manofmany.com/entertainment/movies-tv/new-on-disney-plus
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    Children, just be glad it's available for streaming...in North America. Worry about a dub later. Meanwhile, I'm just gonna wait till it comes out on physical media, where I don't have to worry that it gets removed from streaming like...tomorrow.
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    Just as a note, this show was originally going to be on HBO Max, but thanks to the Guild strikes and studios drastically cutting back their output, I'm not sure how much this show suffered as it was shopped around until it found a spot on Amazon Prime. Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Marc Bernardin, Halley Gross, Jase Ricci, Adamma Ebo were the writers. Rucka and Brubaker rings a bell. I've only read a story or 2 from Rucka but I never read Brubaker's stuff (kinda remember The Winter Solider-storyline but never collected it)
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    I wish I could say yes but even my expectation of where to end off season 2 didn't come to fruition.
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    Season 2 needed another 2 more episodes. Most of this season was setup for the next sequence of events and it's going to be very war-heavy on the front end of season 3. There will likely be some glossing over other battles in the show to get things moving.
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    He's only EP. So his only purpose is to be sure the project doesn't get derailed monetarily and provide production services. Bruce Timm is showrunner so this is his show.
  12. azrael
    Maybe this is why this season got shortened. It was all a buildup for Season 3.
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    As it's SDCC time...
  15. azrael
    Sounds like a "No". 🤷‍♂️ We need the Canadian D+ subscribers to confirm.
  16. azrael
    Just reading around, sounds like Delta and Frontier are now available in Canada.
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    I did not... If I'm following Duke's line of thought with Daemon, no.
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    Laz Alonso lost weight for health reasons and they weaved the story around his change so that it fit.
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    Marketing teams are easy to layoff. Hollywood is just participating in the same layoff-craze other industries are doing. I mentioned before streaming services were licensing more shows recently rather than making their own because it was a cost-cutting move. Cutting marketing teams, production crews for productions you aren't making anymore, etc. are just part of the process. The money just isn't coming in like it did in the 2010s. I've seen a number of comments about "where's the entertainment industry jobs?". More layoffs are coming. Disney is just participating. 'Gotta please the shareholders. At the end of the day, the bottomline, it's always about money. ALWAYS. Anyone who says otherwise is just kidding themselves. 'Gotta love the data analytic-driven Hollywood movie that you can push on relatively new or unknown writers and directors who are trying to make a name for themselves in the entertainment industry.
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    Not really. The Nightsisters and these witches don't have much in common besides being Force witches. Nightsisters like to re-animate dead/inanimate stuff. The witches in this show are creating something out of nothing.
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    Tony Gilroy is the showrunner for Andor. He also wrote Rogue One. Andor is, so far, the only show that seems to be universally 👍. Dave Filoni, the-"Clone Wars guy everyone seems to credit with "redeeming" the prequels"-guy has made consistent but not the best shows. The Mandalorian and Ashoka were just OK (The Mandalorian started good, but has moved into just-OK-territory). But those shows are just extensions of Clone Wars and Rebels (and by extension, The Bad Batch too) so there's a built-in audience for those shows. Being the showrunner when Lucas was still in charge probably gives him the best understanding of the Star Wars-universe. But again, his stuff has been "just-OK".
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    I think he is, or maybe trying to be, willing or unwillingly.
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    So the people in charge of this show are practically begging for a season 2. 🤨😑🙄 I'd prefer they didn't and try to just end the series. How about just giving us something I can walk away as a complete story, not a "But wait..there's more!". As for the episode... As for the lightsaber fights? Jeki vs Qimir and Sol vs Qimir were the only 2 fights where they look like they spent time on. They were mildly better than the sequel fights. Credit to Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen and Lee Jung-Jae for actually spending some time to learn the fight. Their fights were OK. Not good. Not great. It would be nice if they could get Nick Gillard back to be sword master cuz we really need an experienced Star Wars stunt coordinator. Every other fight was just people swinging baseball bats. 🙄 I'm glad I just shut up, not nitpicked each episode to death and let this show run it's course cuz the ending should have stuck the landing and it didn't because the the blatant "GIVE US A SEASON 2"-ending. Gonna give this show (or "season 1") a 👎. One more thing...
  25. azrael
    The results are the same because those events are, essentially milestones. The devil as they say, is in the details. Luke and Arrax dying over Shipbreaker Bay when Aemond and Vhagar attacked them doesn't change. How the attack started and what led up to Luke and Arrax's deaths are subject to eyewitnesses and colorful writing of the author. The duel of the Cargyll twins is a milestone event, but again the details are a bit, fuzzy. As @Duke Togo says
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