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Netflix Cancels The Punisher and Jessica Jones, Ending its Marvel Shows (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Netflix is officially no longer producing Marvel's live-action shows. The streaming service has canceled both The Punisher and Jessica Jones, according to Deadline, with the latter's third season set to debut as the last batch of Marvel live-action episodes on Netflix. "We are grateful to Marvel for five years of our fruitful partnership and thank the passionate fans who have followed these series from the beginning," a Netflix representative told Deadline. Netflix didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
I mean:
+ Disney owns Marvel Studios.
+ Disney will become a competitor of Netflix launching their own streaming service (Disney+).
+ Disney is retiring a significant chunck of their catalogue from Netflix in preparation for said streaming service.
+ Diseny (due to their Fox Studios Acquisition) owns the majority (60%) of Hulu, another Netflix competitor.
I guess this may have something to do with said cancelations...
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It may be more accurate to say Netflix drops content from streaming competitor Disney. Marvel is a subsidiary of Disney.
CGI
If you're gonna troll, at least know the material you're working with, since you're clearly outing yourself with a comment about CGI (and your other complaints are similarly off-base). Unlike the Marvel films, the Netflix/Marvel shows are remarkably light-handed in their use of CGI. About the most notable instance of it between Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and Punisher is that Iron Fist's fist glows occasionally.
That's really about it. No super metal suits. No big green monsters. No gods of thunder. No wizards. No flying aircraft carriers. No aliens. Just five people, some with modest powers, none who want to be called "hero", all with serious personal issues that get explored, each entirely different in tone and style from the other, but every one of them engaged in street-level vigilantism set in a universe where the civilization-ending events of the movies are off-handedly mentioned about once a season so that you know those events are part of the fabric of the world in which these people live and operate.
...from creating new content with the current cast, and shelving them until Netflix' rights expire.
If the best you've got is tired ad hominem, you're clearly not working with much. Slashdot deserves better trolls. Step up your game if you're going to keep trying to swim with the adults.
>the problem - idiots. Idiots who enjoy terrible dialogue, CGI, and zero-depth characterization. You're just simple.
>Yes, simple people can be robbed of $20 repeatedly, that's proven by Marvel movies. What you're demonstrating is a devotion to that ideal and a lack of understanding of what makes quality cinema last.
Marvel's "Black Panther" is an Academy Award nominee. It was selected by nominee ballots voted on by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an organization comprised of 8,000 motion picture professionals. But I guess they're a bunch of idiots too, right?
This seems to be how ALL serial dramatic content is written, nowadays. Certainly the CW’s DC shows quickly degenerated into nothing but angsty relationship melodramas... but it’s everywhere else as well. My wife likes hospital dramas and cop shows - I’ve tried to watch them with her, but 90% of those story lines are, again, about broken serial relationships and people who can’t manage to stay happy.
It’s almost like every modern television writer grew up on a steady diet of PD James murder mysteries. I remember when PBS’s “Mystery” would serialize those. All of the main characters would be so obnoxiously annoying, and the interpersonal relationships so consistently dysfunctional, that the question in my mind wouldn’t be why the particular victim was killed - I’d wonder why no one had taken out all the other characters as well.
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