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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 can see dropping Jessica Jones and Punisher, I'm having trouble even finishing season two of Punisher and JJ was getting a bit repetitive.
What I was more sad to see go, was Luke Cage - that still had some interesting story left to tell. Iron fist I never even watched so I guess I can't be too sad that is gone as well.
I have to say though, that I'm enjoying Netflix's Umbrella Academy more than any new Marvel content, whose world is at this point generally over-worked.
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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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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...
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I find all the netflix superhero shoes start really strong and then fizzle out. Watching Titans and it starts very raw and action packed, but four epis in it's a soap opera.
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First it was zombies, then came the comic book super-heroes. I'll be glad when Hollywood gets back to making more movies that actually have stories and quality acting.
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.
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
You don't seem to be aware that Disney is launching their own streaming platform later this year and they own the Marvel franchise.
I did know that, but the shows were canceled a bit ahead of when that would have naturally occurred.
Even though these shows are being reported as "canceled", they aren't being terminated. They'll just be moved to new studios and production is going to continue.
That I did not know, where did you read that?
Personally like I said, I felt like most of them were kind of played out and I don't see Disney getting a lot of value out of continuing these. But more power to them if they can wring more value out of the Marvel stone.
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The /. armchair art critics must be falling over themselves in a rush to comment on how happy they that these shows were cancelled because one of the following: a) Netflix originals suck b) they're tired of Marvel/superhero stories c) too mainstream and action oriented; not about an autistic kid sitting in a Eastern European shack doing math on a menstrual-blood soaked bathroom floor.
Honestly, I do think the Marvel shows have been rather crap on Netflix, so not bothered that they're being cancelled personally. However, I wouldn't say I'm "Happy" about it- because it doesn't really impact me. I'm already not watching them after having bailed after a few episodes of each, it's not going to make me watch them less now they're gone.
The only goodside of it will be if the money gets redirected for something I enjoy more.
Not liking the marvel shows does not equate to not liking action btw... it just means liking better written (subjective I know) shows.
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To each his own. I remember that Marvel superheroes stories were nice when I was a teenager. Starting in my 20s, I have found them repetitive, preposterous and just plain boring ever since. And I find it difficult to take those superheroes seriously when they don such ridiculous outfits. Like I said, to each his/her own.
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.
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It may be more accurate to say Netflix drops content from streaming competitor Disney. Marvel is a subsidiary of Disney.
Umbrella Academy is an amazing show, and I'd like to see more small time comic adaptations like this over crappy Marvel IP.
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.
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After what they did to Black Mirror
I personally liked the Black Mirror interactive episode better than every single other Black Mirror episode combined.
Their entire Defenders Franchise was a flaming pile of shit. I look forward to a proper reboot on Disney's Streaming service in 2021.
I don't agree with that, and I don't think a lot of other people do as well. In particular, the first seasons of Jessica Jones, and Daredevil were great. I also liked Luke Cage fairly well.
Or maybe you specifically meant just the Defenders show where they all came together, there I would have to agree I didn't really care for it at all and didn't want to see more of it. I find the Black Hand to be a pretty uninteresting villainous force.
I'm not sure what gives you hope that a Disney reboot of any of those characters will yield improvement though. I think they should let them sit for at least 18 months before another reboot, like Spider Man.
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Westerns have already had several comebacks. The ones that are well-written, casted and well-cine'graphed work out, the shitty ones do not. The same can be said for superhero movies. Marvel rehashes have none of that.
It's pure CGI bullshit and bullshit dialogue. The pacing is bullshit. The cinematography is bullshit. Everything is Disney-fied. We've seen this since the SW prequels, the genre isn't just dead, it was murdered.
Of course a witty writer and artistic team could make a superhero movie work. Or a western, or anything else. The issue is that's not what the studio formula blockbuster idiots call for and demand, over and over.
Marvel shite needs to die for the good of cinema.
Love them or hate them this isn't about ratings. This is about Disney rolling out their own streaming service.
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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.
"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.
You don't have to say "X didn't respond to a request for comment" immediately after quoting the comment from a representative of X.
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Ignoring the fact you mixed up universes there a little bit (as others kindly pointed out), I agree with your basic point.
You have all these Marvel movies, where none of the people from the TV shows do anything in them - or vice versa. I mean Jessica Jones or Luke Cage is way more useful than some of the characters that appear in the Marvel movies all the time, stock up the Jack Daniels in the Avengers tower and bring her in!
Same deal the other way, with all of New York about to be sucked into a hole you'd think maybe Spiderman would care about that a little. In fact, how is Daredevil even a thing in world where Spiderman is hanging around New York? No references or anything?
The way I thought about it though, was simply that they were wholly different universes though I know they are not supposed to be, and I thought I remembered some references to the alien battle in one of the shows - may have been mistaken though.
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Your comment mirror's my thoughts on the matter. The shows themselves weren't that bad. They were entertaining, but not always trying to set the bar to some world ending adventure. They were closer to home, far more local, and a bit more personal. You managed to get to know the character and develop a sort of understanding with them instead of the rushed CGI drivel you get with a big screen adaptation.
I cancelled Netflix some time ago though, back when they started raising their prices. I think I am going to leave the television to my wife and focus on reading or developing. I will say that the quality of television is far better than it was a decade ago, but I don't like how I lose track of time watching shows when binging. I feel unproductive and I want a better use of my time.
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The problem I have seen with Netflix Marvel is the fact it was 1990's dark comic book movie format. Much like how DC makes it movies.
The formula for continuing story, arch and light harted filler seems to be off for me. While die hard fans and critics hate filler, the normal people actually like to see this from time to time, it helps us understand and relate better with the characters without the doom and gloom of a constant threat.
The DC Animated TV Universe seemed to do a good job at this. While a dark hero like Datman is Dark and moody, they had episodes where he wasn't under a major threat, and the point of the story wasn't if he won or lost but just to see how he would react.
The Marvel movies even seem to have time to lighten things up for a little bit, but being a 2 hour movie, you don't need to keep a long complex arch going on.
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>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?
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.
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The shows had problems.
* They were low budget (some shows had more problem with that than others, notably Iron Fist)
* There was too much filler in the seasons (don't need 13 episodes when you only really have 8 episodes' worth of story)
* Some were just really bad (all of the boardroom drama in Iron Fist)
* In fact, Iron Fist season 1 was fucking terrible, overall (I couldn't even bring myself to watch season 2)
The highlights:
* Daredevil cast were great, especially...
* Vincent D'Onofrio IS Kingpin, in the way that RDJ is Tony Stark; he fucking OWNED that role
* DD seasons 1 and 3, Jessica Jones season 1, and Punisher season 1 were the standouts
* Luke Cage 1 and 2 were pretty good
* The rest of the seasons were watchable, but nothing special
Stop paying to license terrible IP and write something. CGI and bad-dialogue an original plot, rehashing Marvel shit over and over is OVER!
I kind of agree with this, I think your point is proved out by Umbrella Academy (on Netflix). Yes its super-hero stuff but way more interesting than any of the Marvel stuff since the story is actually fresh (to me anyway, having never read the original comic it is based on).
It really shows there are countless stories out there that are really interesting and probably more deserving of being made than more Marvel content. I don't read comics or graphic novels much at all but there have to be a thousand gems in that space just waiting to be mined for video use.
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No, but they have an inquisition staring them down, looking for any sign of face crime. Should any of them so much as flinch, they'll be crucified as "racist, sexist, xenophobic, transphobic, [insert new favourite insult of the intersectional fanatics here]".
That movie was average at best. But it had blacks as main cast, and the same inquisition has been desperately trying to crucify Hollywood crowd for "insufficient representation of blacks at awards". Remember "Oscars so white" in spite of the fact that black representation was pretty much equal to percentage of population that blacks are in US?
And when the beast of that ferocity and insanity is ogling you, salivating in hunger for blood, you'll throw it anything to get it to look at someone else. Which is exactly what's happening there.
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Westerns popular during the 1950's while had some fad revivals. I feel more or less not relatable to most people. Back in the 1950's it covered a simpler time 100 years ago. 100 years from 2019 is 1919 (World War I has ended, Automobiles, Radio, Electric Lights) in Short we have a new world that is relatable to. I can probably see Gangster movies being popular instead of Westerns. This can open the door to some interesting stories. Because a lot of the 1920's there was a lot of interesting Gray areas America wants to celibate after WWI, Prohibition is in effect, creating an interesting black market with a variety of people engaged in it. Politically things are building up to the Great Depression and WWII.
To those in the 1950's the 1920's were much of this was too soon for them, however Westerns in a world where there was the ideal freedom, even though it seemed that something was always trying to kill them. The lone Sharif in a lawless town, a simpler time with simpler solutions.
Today I think such simple solutions to problems will not last long, we need a more complex story.
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I can hardly believe I watched it until the end.
1) Get rid of all the shows people would actually watch and replace them with cheaply made true-crime documentaries and bad stand up comedy specials.
2) Assume people are too lazy to cancel their monthly subscriptions.
3)...
Seriously, Netflix has gotten rid of their once-impressive back catalog of classic movies, bought a bunch of cookie-cutter European copies of American cop-shows, and has been sucking increasing ass.
But I'm part of the problem I guess. I'm too lazy to cancel my monthly subscription and even though I keep telling myself it's time to cut them loose, I keep thinking they've got to improve sometime but they never do.
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Disney obviously wants all their properties to be on their own platform.
Yeah, there's been some good films recently (and maybe the limited quantity ensures only the better ones get made), but not as much as far as television series go. Sure there're shows the borrow elements (Firefly was often described as a western in space, but even that's getting close to two decades old now) but even those tend to trickle out.
I recently started reading a book on the history of the Comanches and I think a show centering around them and the U.S. expansion into their territory would be amazing. Modern television shows (especially those not done by networks) can do a better job of showing just how brutal history was.
they lean in with action and then romance. At least in the 80s and 90s (stopped reading by late 99 when the prices and crossovers got crazy). Go read any run on Teen Titans and you'll find they play out in that exact way. Young Justice ran the same way too. DC likes it's romance.
For Marvel you've got a point. Besides the various Jean Grey/Scott Summers love triangles it's rare to see them devote more than a half page to romance before Hulk starts smashin' and Thing starts clobberin'.
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It was disjointed because there were several unrelated short stories, perhaps?
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"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".
Which one is that?
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I know for one it will force Netflix to get more original content. For Two, I will not be subscribing to Disney+ unless they find some Original content worthwhile. If they use the writers that do the Disney Channel content now, it will flop IMO.
Firefly was the Best Western in the last 20 years
"The Punishment of Jessica Jones"...
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I agree about super heroes.
Marvel reinvented origins and introduced, say, Supergirl who actually, according to the story line, preceded Superman and stuff.
The crossovers and mixes are terrible. And the goddam stable of superheroes and villains is ridiculous.
The effect is similar to what happened to 3D: If the story line sucks, no amount of makeup is going to save the offering.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
The plot lines for westerns is formulaic and still around. Star Wars is a good example.
There are good guys and bad guys, mystery, romance, and conflict.
Rinse, repeat.
The trend these days is to forego creativity and reboot old products and inject them with steroids.
Still, even with CGI, the plot remains the same.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I was actually interested in what they were going to do with Typhoid Mary.
Daredevil and Punisher. All the rest I found terribly boring after 3 episodes, and gave up. Maybe got through 5 of Jessica Jones.
While the super hero thing is starting to get played out a bit, I think what helped those two shows for me was that it wasn't about super powers. Neither guy had them. It was more about the story. And while parts of both irritated me a little bit and there were some low points, in my opinion they were still great and I recommend them to people.
I am OK with them being cancelled though, because there was PLENTY of content there. I mean, for Punisher that was ~26 hours of across 2 seasons. That's like 10 movies! I don't care that it wasn't highly reviewed, I enjoyed it. It didn't crush any of my comic-nerd dreams because I am not one.
Shows come and go, that is all. It's just TV entertainment.
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The hardware needs to be cheap so I can buy a bunch.
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"ad hominem" comes to us from the Greeks (ca. Moby Dick was a minnow) and is a concatenated corruption of the phrase, "advertisement for pre-humans."
We have found those in billboard form in some caves and stuff.
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Describing Firefly as a fucking western is what killed it, as far as marketing goes.
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There will be a big hole in Netflix without their hit-or-miss superhero lineup. Who the hell wants to stream only Disney content though, they must be mad to think people want yet another outlay. Netflix and one other (for GoT) hits the sweet spot!
I, for one, am looking forward to a G rated "Punsher". NOT.
That's because all of the attention around Black Panther was heavily politicized and not at all because of the quality of the film itself.
Star Wars at least mixed it up a bit: the literal black hats and literal white hats were both bad guys.
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It was classic WWII. Storm troopers anyone?
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That is what new superhero series need to be.
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Nope... Fox killed it. They changed the order of episodes from the original Joss Whedon script/plot. They moved it to Friday Night (where good shows go to die) so fans of SciFi could choose to watch it at home or go watch the latest movie at the cinema. This was tragic. Fox sent way too many series to die in the Friday night slot.
Firefly was a concept... a western set in the future that could-have-been. I mean seriously. Riding Horses? Guns on your hip? Outlaw territories that were controlled by "desperados". What more do you want?
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I wish they pick up some of the Sanderson's books. Either from Mistborn or Reconers series.
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Darn whippersnappers think mild homophobia is edgy, or something. Stay away from history books, kids, it will scar your innocent eyes.
The first Jessica Jones season seemed pretty original to me, and wasn't like Jessica Jones in the comics either. Of course, probably those superfans who've read every Marvel comic ever will claim it's just a rehash of a story already done (Simpson's did it!).
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They were like watching a mini series strung out over way too many episodes. They would have made far more compelling TV if the episode count was slashed.
I think this is why Defenders never really hit the mark as well as the individual character shows did. You didn't really get to spend the time with the individual characters, and while it did have a few great things (The interactions between Rand and Cage where a great callback to the Heroes for Hire comics) it lacked the real local feel of the others. It was an epic world-ender scenario with a magical foe and the stuff that makes the movies fun, but the movies are fun because its the massive overkill cinema experience where you leave your brain at the door and just enjoy Iron man punching bad guys heads off. What makes the Netflix shows work is the local scale of things, the personal peril and the neighborhood, and Defenders just didn't feel like that. Frankly the final battle against the hand and the stakes involved is the kind of thing where the Avengers ought have swooped in and said 'Thanks for holding the fort kids, but this is a job for the big green guy. By the way, Luke, you need to send us your resume. The rest of you, keep being you!". It was just the wrong scale for Netflix.
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No it wouldn't. Marvel may be owned by Disney but this content does not exist elsewhere. It was made by Netflix. They only paid to use a story which had never seen a screen adaptation before.
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"You're obviously a troll"
"Obviously a troll" because they're tired of unoriginal content? That would make me a troll as well. Or maybe they're "obviously a troll" because they don't like the shows you like?
"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."
Sure, the Netflix shows were great but they were still contributing to many people's overall comic book fatigue. I watched the fist season of Daredevil, thought it was really good and never watched another episode because I just can't get excited about more comic book remakes. I never dove into the second season when it came out because I'm really just generally tired of comic book movies and shows.
Then there's the general frustration over the lack of original content from Hollywood that even IPs used well fuels. Many people liked it when Hollywood took risks and didn't entirely lean on the crutch of sequels, remakes, and financial proven IPs from other mediums.
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Then, when GPS detects I'm 25 yards from a store that has one of those, flag me. I can snooze or make the purchase.
This is a great idea. Also you could alert the retailer, so they could send alerts if they are having a sale on one of those items. And have it send the retailer your contact info so they can get in touch to see if you want the items delivered instead. Or partner with delivery services to have drivers show up at your house with those goods to see if you want to buy them.
Someone should get on this now! You could make a fortune!
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Let's not kid ourselves. I can build a campfire every night of the week that has greater rewatchability than anything Hollywood has ever made.
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I truly need a geeky grand nephew or niece to step up and design for me. They are too busy avoiding vaccinations.
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Jessica Jones season 1 was some of the best TV in years. A genuinely compelling and fresh antagonist really made it.
Agreed. Season 2 unfortunately couldn't compare though I stuck it through because it wasn't bad. With the ending I have some hopes for season 3, especially to see what they do with Trish.
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Nazi storm troopers wore black. The Imperial storm troopers wore white. I always though that was one of the best design choices in SW - otherwise the symbology was a bit too "on the nose" and shallow.
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I am SO sick of the Marvel and DC Comics clichés that, really, those news are almost a relief. We hope something more interesting takes its place. Thanks, Netflix, for cleaning up.
We still have the case where Netflix is paying money, licensing, to a streaming competitor. Assuming the license was to be renewed and future context was not to be made by and for Disney's streaming service.
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.
I actually thought Batman vs Superman did this for the first half of the movie. It raised some very good philosophical questions about morality and the potential liabilities of having an unaccountable, unkillable demigod exist in the world. It asked if Superman was necessary and sufficient for justice to exist in the world. It asked where the line was when being tough on crime shifts into crimes against humanity.
If they could have just let Superman and Batman be the complicated quasi-villains they were set up to be, and hadn't thrown in a kitchen sink of other poorly-thought-out characters with no inherent purpose or value to the story, it would have been really good. Who wins? If Superman wins, will he kill Batman, or try to reform him? If Batman wins and really does kill Superman, how does the world react? What are the long-term implications? Does Batman shift to really evil in the process of trying to kill Superman? Are there casualties as the two go to war, that both would have rather avoided?
But no, we interrupt the scheduled complicated and interesting story to inject a couple of villains, another hero or two, and then destroy half the city with a giant monster which almost kills the heroes but which does not. Because of Batman's crafty weapon and Superman's self-sacrifice and bravery. Two heroes, dong what they always do, in every single. god. damn. superhero. movie. ever.
The Batman vs Superman in my head is a hell of a lot more interesting than that. The part where Batman has to choose between killing Superman and letting him save someone he loves is particularly gripping. It's a shock when he kills Superman, because it drives home how much of a threat he thinks he is. But what he didn't realize was how much the threat of Superman made people toe the line. With Superman dead, crime gets way worse, and when called on it he tries to argue that freedom is more important. But the mob doesn't get that, and turns on him. Batman flees and recruits a small army, and the city gets overwhelmed with crime. He sweeps back in and restores very brutal order, and there is a mix of cheer and despair. Gotham sort-of returns to normal, but at what price?
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"The Batman vs Superman in my head is a hell of a lot more interesting than that. The part where Batman has to choose between killing Superman and letting him save someone he loves is particularly gripping. It's a shock when he kills Superman, because it drives home how much of a threat he thinks he is. But what he didn't realize was how much the threat of Superman made people toe the line. With Superman dead, crime gets way worse, and when called on it he tries to argue that freedom is more important. But the mob doesn't get that, and turns on him. Batman flees and recruits a small army, and the city gets overwhelmed with crime. He sweeps back in and restores very brutal order, and there is a mix of cheer and despair. Gotham sort-of returns to normal, but at what price?"
So a minor variant on the general plot line of Miller's The Dark Knight? in which Batman and all the other supers except Big Blue himself are gone, or rendered moot (in at least one case by Supes himself), and even Supes is basically a political tool kept invisible to the populace. Gotham is a crime-filled cesspool run by gangs unchecked. Batman and Superman fight to the death, with Superman left knowing that Batman could have killed him, but chose not to. Batman's own death via heart attack, having been faked, is short lived, and he begins recruiting and training a new Batman army.
One thing the Batman vs Superman movie gave us was a glimpse into a (vision or dream?) future with a bad Superman and Batman's underground. One thing that always struck me in Miller's Batman was how BIG batman is relative to normal folks, a feature not normally included in any of the movies. But that future scene has Batman fighting Superman's ground troops and it was setup so that Batman looks huge compared to the troops. I appreciated that almost more than anything else in the movie.
Seriously? No one cares.
It's a bit sad that you don't realize the absurdity in trying to assert "no one does X" as a response to someone demonstrating X.
But who the fuck am I fooling? You got a 7 digit UID.
Having failed at getting a rise via banal homophobia, you're now falling back on the juvenile staple of saying my e-peen is small? What next? Suggest my mother is an easy woman? Respond with "nah uh!"? Insult my face? Sling gratuitous vulgarity?
I'll say it again: step up your game. At this point, given the caliber of trolling taking place, I'm forced to question whether you were even alive at the time that I discovered Slashdot in 2001.
Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Funniest comment I've read in a few weeks. Thanks!
Yes that is right, but it is still not remotely accurate to say they are "dropping content from a competitor". There is no content owned by the competitor being dropped.