nerdrage

If I were Disney, I’d be glad to see the back of them. Let them take their crap content. NBC has nothing good anymore anyway.

It’s Comcast. They’re greedy. Of course they want more.

The Hulu deal is like an arranged marriage, the contract was signed years ago. Antitrust should have kicked in then if it ever was going to.

What the heck is a "hard bundle"? The suits love their buzzwords. Sounds like they are physically soldering the two apps together.

Anyway I’m fine with them being separate. I can subscribe to them sequentially, not pay more just to have both at one time. I can’t watch both at once, so it’s not worth paying more for.

Netflix has been putting money into new & original IP for years and have been rewarded by 95% flops. Which was okay as long as they had no competition but now all the competitors’ franchises are going to murder them because franchises are a far more reliable way to make money vs Netflix’s throw-sh%t-against-a-wall approach.

Not just Disney. Amazon has a Lord of the Rings spinoff, HBO Max has a Game of Thrones spinoff, and there are more to come. Apple seems to be the only competitor who doesn’t care about franchises, probably because they’re targeting upper-income educated households who buy a lot of expensive Apple stuff. Some kind of customer loyalty perk.

Even Netflix is scrambling for the safety of whatever franchises they can create. Making new franchises is far harder than just capitalizing on existing ones.

Don’t say that out loud!!!

I’m not going to watch all of them regardless of quality. Sometimes they’re bad in a specific way that makes it fun to bash them (Obi Wan) but generally, I just focus on the good stuff that also has some kind of appeal for me.

But thank YOU for the warning. This is why I habitually jump to comments right away.

Ashoka seems promising. They better give us Moon Knight Season 2. If they cast anyone but Krasinski as Reed Richards, I’m out. That’s all for now.

I would watch more Tron.

It’s silly of them to use YouTube for their marketing. Why not just give us limited access to HBO Max without needing to log in or type in a credit card number? If more streaming services would offer this, I’d probably have checked them out before now instead of perpetually pushing it off till Netflix stops producing as much good stuff, or I get done with Apple, etc…

Ehhh I’ve never pirated anything (it’s true even if you don’t believe me) for the simple reason that, it’s never been that hard to get stuff legally. Someday I’ll subscribe to HBO Max and someday I might even see HoD (even tho sounds like it lacks the stuff I liked in GoT) but right now I’m busy with Netflix/Amazon/Apple.

When I get thru all the stuff I want on Apple, I’ll move on to HBO Max or Hulu. The overall cost is cheap and there’s more than enough stuff to occupy my time, so why bother with stealing stuff?