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.

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And nothing of value was lost.

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop paying to license terrible IP and write something. CGI and bad-dialogue an original plot, rehashing Marvel shit over and over is OVER!

Re:And nothing of value was lost.

[alvinrod]

Would it really matter if they came up with some original IP though? It's still almost certainly going to be the same super hero narratives we've seen time and time again. I think that the real issue is that the market has had too much super hero stuff dumped on it so it doesn't feel nearly as special as it originally did. I wonder if westerns will ever make a comeback.

Re:And nothing of value was lost.

[PsychoSlashDot]

Stop paying to license terrible IP and write something. CGI and bad-dialogue an original plot, rehashing Marvel shit over and over is OVER!

You're obviously a troll, but there's something to be learned here. There was great value with the Netfix Marvel shows for people who aren't comic book devotees.

For us, those shows have been fresh, (mostly) well-done, and most importantly entertaining. They're not the over-the-top comic book material like the movies. They're just accessible, interesting shows about extraordinary people.

I for one would have gladly watched another season or two of "that show with the blind lawyer struggling to reconcile his sense of duty and his sense of morality", or even another season of "that rich guy who was raised by monks and had to learn how to interact with Western adult culture while being a martial arts deity's avatar".

But no. The Mouse needs to be fed.

Re:And nothing of value was lost.

[Mister Transistor]

There have been a few decent ones recently. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by the Cohen bros. was pretty good, and there have been some recent Quentin Tarantino western-esque movies lately that were arguably decent.

And then there were some westerns in disguise, like Star Trek TOS and that whole Star Wars Ep. IV thing. They never really went away, they just morphed into one branch of Sci-Fi.

I will be glad

[The-Ixian]

when, just like the zombie craze, all of this super-hero stuff has played out.

We need more space opera and less supernatural ghosty stuff...

Re:I will be glad

[youngone]

I agree with you entirely, but people seem to like the DC and Marvel stuff, for the same reason they like McDonald's .
It's safe and familiar, and you know what you're going to get because it's the same every time.

GOOD!

[l0ungeb0y]

Their entire Defenders Franchise was a flaming pile of shit. I look forward to a proper reboot on Disney's Streaming service in 2021. Netflix and their thousands of shit-tier "original content" titles can go get good and truly fucked. After what they did to Black Mirror, and giving us that choose your own adventure piece of shit instead of a proper season, they are dead to me

Meh.

[_xeno_]

I'm actually very "meh" about this. On the one hand, I enjoyed the first season of (most) of the Netflix Marvel shows (guess the exception), but on the other hand, while they kept on making it seem like something cool could be just around the corner, they never quite managed to deliver. The Iron Fist was the worst at this. Its final season ended with a setup that seemed like it could potentially be cool, but given that it was the Iron Fist, I kind of don't care that we'll never get to see if they would have managed to capitalize on it.

Beyond that, all the shows were getting kind of stale. Luke Cage's second season seemed to be a large bit of padding to set up for a third season that may have been interesting, one we didn't get to see. Jessica Jones's second season set up for maybe having an interesting new character while otherwise being pretty dull - dull enough that I managed to forget a large bit of the plot involving a fairly major character! Jessica Jones is getting a third season (the one they just finished before being canceled), so maybe the third season will manage to capitalize on the hooks the second one set up, but - well - I'm not counting on it.

Ultimately I think they all fell to something I remember reading about, how super hero origin stories are easier to write than stories where they've already been established. Origin stories are inherently the Hero's Journey, something that's very well defined and understood. The first seasons were all origin stories, and then once they were defined characters - the show writers didn't know how to continue. This meant that pretty much every "next season" of these shows ended up effectively being the origin stories of other characters beyond the "main characters." Which almost worked.

So I'm left with a mixed feeling that while the shows may have been able to move the characters in interesting directions and show us neat new things, it was probably time to cancel them. Leaving me feeling basically unable to care either way. Had they continued, that might have been interesting. Or not. So it doesn't really matter that they won't.

And, yes, I know this is a lot of text to say "I don't care" but it's this weird thing where I wish I could be invested in the characters because the shows seemed promising at first, but ultimately, I'm just ... not.