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Okay I think I’m starting to see what you’re talking about, but in my mind I would still say it’s an adaption of league on the whole. Thanks for the discussion!

I know I looked it up once when Paramount Plus was CBS All Access. It was on there, but not the entire series, just random episodes from each season. Really fucking annoying, and something I still see to this day on other streaming services. Glad it's available in full now though. One of our local channels in NYC has a Taxi marathon on New Year's and I always try to watch some of it.

I feel like Natasha’s the one actress who could deliver lines like that about a dog and make it not absolutely ridiculous

>Point is, I feel like there has always been kid of a lack of a between "Kids stuff" and "Teens stuff" in media, and that "tween" over time, just started becoming an excuse to let 8 year old girls pretend they're teenagers.

LMAO that you're singling out girls. Beyond that though, your post - for all its effort - feels rather ignorant; the "tweenage" target audience has pretty much always been around, what corporate calls it shifts every few decades because marketing to children, more so than any other group, shifts radically with their social interests.

When you're making something for kids, basically everyone knows you have to stratify it more intensely than other age groups because the minds of pre-adolescent (or tween) children vs. a kid in the early and middle stages of childhood are vastly different. Shit like "Nanalan'" made for kids still going through early childhood, might appeal to someone still in the middle stages of child growth; but isn't likely to offer much to a preadolescent who, by then, is going to want something more directly stimulating and engaging to their mind.

And yes, it's largely just a naming scheme to better market to that specific group. What do you think does better in reaching their target audience? A TV block aimed at "preadolescent children" or "Hip Tweens"? And you get it in every age group, not just the tweens. A lot of teenage media is focused on treating the viewers how they want to be treated; with respect, like they're small adults capable of making their own decisions and that their parents are just boring and don't get them. That kind of shit flies way better than "cartoons for adolescents"

The in-between stage of development between childhood and adolescence is literally pre-adolescence, that 9-12 demographic who are at that point in their life where they do tend to be leaving their old toys and games behind and rushing towards more "adult" interests as their personality starts to shape and bodies and minds develop. When you complain that it's just "an excuse to let 8 year old girls pretend they're teenagers"; my dude, that's literally what most preadolescent kids want - to be older and treated like they're older because they're starting to feel like they're not a kid anymore, while simultaneously not quite being there yet. It's why media aimed at them tends to be soft ball versions of more "adult" media - sitcoms and the like.

My favorite scene is Jim being abducted by aliens. "man. You guys are funny lookin!"

Its a hit whether I watch it or not. I'm just 1 person. So its a win-win for me irregardless. No flaw in reasoning.

Agree – letting Discovery+ people opt out of HBO, but forcing HBO people to take on Discovery+ content with a price increase is asinine. This is the big flaw in their current plans and could crater HBO Max subscribership if they massively raise the price for content no one wants.

Enjoy the show, but the young writer character still doesn't make sense to me.

Personally thought s5 was mid at best and at times pretty flawed. Not terrible on the level of GOT7/8, more like run of the mill quality.

And s2 was brilliant lol. But I know it's a divisive season.

Up yours children!

And much cheaper than something like raised by wolves

Armin Tamzarian

Yeah. It's fairly semi-conscious. At first you're like "Is that moving?" Next thing ya know it's doing exactly what you think it will do, somewhere down in the recesses of your mind. Like, what you think will happen does happen... it's just on a semi-random delay and you keep wondering when you will stop being able to control it.

I'm Cosmo Kramer.

For anyone who hasn’t read the book or thinks this is unnecessary, in the book Pennywise & Derry have a very long history together and there are tons of great stories spanning hundreds of years in the town that would be great to see fleshed out. It definitely has the potential to be really good!

I’m going to get Peacock next month to binge this and Parks and Rec.

I mean it's half a joke, half the truth. You should know as a viewer that if you are watching an incredibly niche show like say, an alternative history show set in the industrial revolution that has fairies, a lot of people are not going to watch it.

The three main cast are all from shows I already love. But I don't see how the gimmick can last long term. I wish it was just about them being friends and journalists and I wonder if it could work better long term. But I'll stick with it.

My point is that Arcane is an original story. It’s not an adaptation because it’s not based on an existing story.

It takes place in an existing world but that’s just the setting. The story is what matters.

And thanks for bringing up the Star Wars EU. That’s a perfect example of what I’m talking about.They ARE NOT an adaptation of Star Wars. They are stories that take place in the Star Wars universe.

What is an adaptation of Star Wars? The novelization of the movie Star Wars.

Rings of Power isn’t an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. That would be the movie trilogy The Lord of the Rings.

Loving it so far. I really like how they set up the new characters each week. In most crime procedurals, we get 30 seconds to meet someone before they die. Poker Face actually introduces us and makes us care about them.

"Either you have sex with me or you freeze to death.", Cab Driver

"Sex. Death. Sex. Death.", Latka

"Hmm....Why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself?", Latka

Yes! This would also give them an opportunity to plant the seed for a proper Dark Tower series.

They are including the two episodes (s5e1 and s5e23) that Decades skips.

Mildly interesting that Taxi originally ran on NBC and ABC and now shows up on Paramount+.

Now, I wish some streamer would give Newhart the treatment it deserves.

Blackadder Goes Forth is the gold standard for this