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Open Source Idiom posted:Disney Plus pentyne posted:the last 5-10 years of tech have been like them trying to speed run all the mistakes and gently caress-ups of the past ~80 years of traditional media. I really liked the idea of having Netflix and Hulu to compete against each other but now it's a mess.
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Meh. As long as catalog doesn't cycle in and out and you can pay for no commercials, this is waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than cable days. Oh my, you mean I can spend $10 bucks and binge through a season of 5 different shows in a month with zero commercials and in 4k HDR and then I can cancel and forget it exists for a year until there's stuff I want to watch again? The horror. I'd much rather pay $60 /month to be drip fed commercial laden "HD" that's so low bitrate that I have better looking DVDs.
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Mar 2, 2021 06:11
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Jesus Christ, people! Just pirate everything.
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Mar 2, 2021 12:31
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I only watch shows that have made it onto Netflix Plus
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Mar 2, 2021 12:54
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Slamhound posted:Jesus Christ, people! Just pirate everything.
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Mar 2, 2021 12:58
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Lemme just tell my 60 year old inlaws to check out pirate bay for all of the episodes of Mysteries of Oak Island they want to watch.
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Mar 2, 2021 13:03
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Debris reminds me a lot of Threshold, an excellent one season show from 2005, though Threshold had a much stronger cast. The first episode was decent, though the preview of the rest of the season seemed more intriguing.
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Mar 2, 2021 13:06
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Mu Zeta posted:I really liked the idea of having Netflix and Hulu to compete against each other but now it's a mess. Yeah, I'm pretty sure most of these will be a flash in the pan, and end up going back to being extensions for existing services. I think Netflix, Hulu/Disney, Amazon, and Apple will be fine. Oasx posted:Debris reminds me a lot of Threshold, an excellent one season show from 2005, though Threshold had a much stronger cast. The first episode was decent, though the preview of the rest of the season seemed more intriguing. I don't remember Threshold, I kept trying to think of it, but my brain kept reminding me of Surface.
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Mar 2, 2021 13:18
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Currently piracy is less convenient than using actual streaming services, so it's more a rarity for me for when I want to watch something on D+. Otherwise with two taps I'm streaming whatever I want on my giant TV in good quality without having to download anything or wait for significant loading times or see an ad or having to plan ahead or having to keep up with what the best sketchy sites are.
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Mar 2, 2021 13:19
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I've been cackling my way thru Catastrophe on Prime. Seriously underrated comedy about two hosed up people trying to get their relationship going. Its loving raw at times.
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Mar 2, 2021 13:32
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Iron Crowned posted:I don't remember Threshold, I kept trying to think of it, but my brain kept reminding me of Surface. It came out as the same time as Surface and invasion, all three sci fi shows that only lasted a season. Surface got most of the attention but Threshold was the best among the three in my opinion. Among others it had Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner on the cast.
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Mar 2, 2021 13:45
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Oasx posted:Debris reminds me a lot of Threshold, an excellent one season show from 2005, though Threshold had a much stronger cast. The first episode was decent, though the preview of the rest of the season seemed more intriguing. Iron Crowned posted:I don't remember Threshold, I kept trying to think of it, but my brain kept reminding me of Surface. feedmyleg posted:Currently piracy is less convenient than using actual streaming services, so it's more a rarity for me for when I want to watch something on D+. Otherwise with two taps I'm streaming whatever I want on my giant TV in good quality without having to download anything or wait for significant loading times or see an ad or having to plan ahead or having to keep up with what the best sketchy sites are. As far as I can tell, the only difference in the difficulties between piracy and legitimacy is that one of them doesn’t cost $10-$20 bucks a month per service to deal with a bunch of bullshit.
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Mar 2, 2021 13:54
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Oasx posted:It came out as the same time as Surface and invasion, all three sci fi shows that only lasted a season. Surface got most of the attention but Threshold was the best among the three in my opinion. Among others it had Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner on the cast. Yes!
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Mar 2, 2021 13:55
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All of which was trying to catch Losts lighting in a bottle.
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Mar 2, 2021 13:56
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It's a shame that all those Lost ripoffs never realized that the reason people liked Lost was that it was good. They should have copied that strategy instead of trying to be bad.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:03
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feedmyleg posted:It's a shame that all those Lost ripoffs never realized that the reason people liked Lost was that it was good. They should have copied that strategy instead of trying to be bad. Didn't stop Heroes from finding success.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:06
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Iron Crowned posted:I don't remember Threshold, I kept trying to think of it, but my brain kept reminding me of Surface. Three shows with almost the exact same premise came out that year, Threshold was the good one.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:06
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Simone Magus posted:I wanna say it used to be on hulu. I know I rewatched it all at some point and it still held up The State is on CBS All Access (soon to be Paramount).
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Mar 2, 2021 14:06
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IRQ posted:Three shows with almost the exact same premise came out that year, Threshold was the good one. Which was the one with Elizabeth Moss being freaky as gently caress? Or did I imagine that?
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Mar 2, 2021 14:06
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Nah, those shows were far too close together to really be considered ripoffs. It was more like a sci-fi fantasy zeitgeist and Lost just picked up the biggest audience with its slight lead. I’d say the ripoffs were dreck like The Ev3nt. God that was poo poo.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:12
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Slamhound posted:Nah, those shows were far too close together to really be considered ripoffs. It was more like a sci-fi fantasy zeitgeist and Lost just picked up the biggest audience with its slight lead. I’d say the ripoffs were dreck like The Ev3nt. They all came out like a couple years after Lost, I know this because I couldn't watch Lost due to working from 5:30pm to 4:00am, and I know I was watching The other shows live. Ah, the good old days before streaming
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Mar 2, 2021 14:18
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The worst of all those shows was by far Persons Unknown. The worst! Though it did have Chadwick Boseman in it so that was a plus.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:27
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That show was alot of fun.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:28
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Iron Crowned posted:They all came out like a couple years after Lost, I know this because I couldn't watch Lost due to working from 5:30pm to 4:00am, and I know I was watching The other shows live. Ah, the good old days before streaming I’m probably just being pedantic here (in other words, correct) but a lot of these shows weren’t so much copycats as they were rivals.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:32
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X-O posted:The worst of all those shows was by far Persons Unknown. The worst! Great, now I gotta watch this poo poo.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:34
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Given the number of shows that we never even HEAR about pitched every year, I think it's more a matter of the networks making an adjustment on what they greenlit rather than the shows being outright copycats. So, say, 15% of the shows pitched each year are genre shows. Most would get passed over before even pilot phase before but after the emerging success of lost, networks started fishing in that 15% more in hopes of getting a hit. So, the initial development of those shows wasn't copycat, but the network strategy was.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:39
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Open Source Idiom posted:Didn't stop Heroes from finding success. Season two onward did that.
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https://twitter.com/dtmooreeditor/status/1366725402421567492
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Mar 2, 2021 14:48
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That's fantastic.
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Mar 2, 2021 14:51
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Oh oh oh... So now we can’t even say “The N Word?” First we can’t say the “N Word” but now you’re trying to say we can’t say “The N Word” even when that a not the word we were going to say??? You’re the real racists.
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Mar 2, 2021 15:02
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Always double down. https://twitter.com/NewOnNetflixUK/status/1366764572162617350
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X-O posted:Always double down. Not sure that qualifies of doubling down since the original account that tweeting the promotional image isn't a Netflix account.
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bull3964 posted:As long as catalog doesn't cycle in and out I don't use Peacock, but I've heard someone say that they already took down some of the stuff they had up at launch. I am kind of tempted to watch Brave New World, though. Sounds like a mess but at least an entertaining one.
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Don’t do it, it was real bad
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Slamhound posted:Great, now I gotta watch this poo poo. The funniest part of Persons Unknown is how before they started they said it was a complete one season story but it doesn't really answer any of its mysteries and also ended on a cliffhanger. The cliffhanger ending didn't even make any sense. The show took place in a ghost town with some buildings and the immediate area around them, the end of the series involves a character getting in an elevator in the town's hotel and when they get out they're on a boat in the middle of the ocean.
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muscles like this! posted:The funniest part of Persons Unknown is how before they started they said it was a complete one season story but it doesn't really answer any of its mysteries and also ended on a cliffhanger. The cliffhanger ending didn't even make any sense. The show took place in a ghost town with some buildings and the immediate area around them, the end of the series involves a character getting in an elevator in the town's hotel and when they get out they're on a boat in the middle of the ocean. That was pretty great.
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Chairman Capone posted:I don't use Peacock, but I've heard someone say that they already took down some of the stuff they had up at launch. Their movies churn, but I'm less concerned about that.
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Chairman Capone posted:I don't use Peacock, but I've heard someone say that they already took down some of the stuff they had up at launch. It's definitely entertaining. There was some stuff I really enjoyed and most of the cast is doing a good job
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Kind of a different choice to start out Debris with everything already set up. Since you know usually something like this would start at the very beginning and not three years in.
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Shageletic posted:I've been cackling my way thru Catastrophe on Prime. Seriously underrated comedy about two hosed up people trying to get their relationship going. Its loving raw at times. Good show. It was quite popular here on the forums when it was airing.
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