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Halo909 t1_jabpecy wrote

Reply to comment by Frazzledsoul in 'Citadel': Amazon’s Big Bet for a Global TV Franchise - Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas star in Amazon’s ambitious action spy series that will premiere on Amazon on April 28, with planned spin-offs around the world. by Neo2199

A hundred million for 1 hour? WTF. Didn't the entire lord of the rings series with all the movies cost something like 250m - 300m? Or something close in that range.

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manticorpse t1_jabox7u wrote

Reply to comment by Digitalizing in Finally giving LOST a watch in 2023. by shadowdra126

Turns out a lot of people aren't great at story analysis or like... the tv-watching equivalent of reading comprehension.

When Lost's finale first aired, I might have blamed the scattershot release schedule, or confused post-finale water-cooler conversations. Nowadays, I wonder if half the problem is that people are "watching" while dicking around on their phones.

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Toxicity246 t1_jabnw4r wrote

Reply to comment by droonick in What did Harvey Birdman get right that Velma got wrong? by Happy123boy

Great point. Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, and Space Ghost coast to coast all took Hanna Barbara characters which nobody was doing anything with and elevated them.

My only bone of contention is that canon can be altered, but generally you have to have material good enough to justify the audience overlooking the change. A good artist learns the rules so they can bend or break them and create great art. It's the difference between Kubrick's The Shining and Terminator: Dark Fate. Velma isn't good enough to justify the change to canon.

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sara-ragnarsdottir t1_jabmlfc wrote

Reply to comment by Lil_Mcgee in What flawed show you just can't leave because it's really that good in certain parts despite its wrongs? by eidbio

And then it went downhill. My point is that HBO doesn't ALWAYS mean quality. Want another example? Lovecraft Country, one of the worst shows I've ever watched with a great potential, and, again, it was on HBO.

To sum it up: For All Mankind would have probably been the same show that it is now even if it was on HBO, there's no way to prove that it would have been improved when HBO itself dropped the ball many times in the past.

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doegred t1_jabm2j1 wrote

Reply to comment by Chapter-Opposite in Which show was the worst offender of "No one ever talks to each other" trope? by mavajo

Idk, I thought there were some refreshingly honest scenes in there. Like at the beginning of season 2 where you could expect >!Patti's death!< to remain a secret hanging over Kevin's head but nope, >!dude goes and digs her up and then lets Nora and Jill know all (OK, almost all) about it and even how Matt helped out and by the way he smokes!<.

Edit: although yes to be fair the existence of an entire cult of people don't talk does speak (hm) in favour of the show's inclusion... Also Laurie's entire season 1 plotline and a certain secret of hers. But still to me it's less a case of 'people don't talk because the plot requires it for drama' and more 'the very premise of the show results in people not talking' (ie the trauma is so unfathomable and strange that people can't put it into words).

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Khiva t1_jablgbb wrote

Reply to comment by Dismal-Past7785 in Finally giving LOST a watch in 2023. by shadowdra126

> I’m prepared to say that it’s the wrongest take of all wrong takes. I see supposed “media journalists” and reddit threads espousing this take to this day, and in my book it instantly discounts them from ever having an opinion worth reading

I mean I would have maybe gone with "the holocaust was awesome" or something on that level but sure, misunderstanding the ending of a TV show, I suppose that's pretty far up there.

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