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Well, this is certainly not something I expected to see today. Not sure how I feel about it. Amazon has a great history of ruining things they touch.
side-eyes Invincible
...almost everything. Kinda bummed we didn't get a Spawn cameo but, I get it.
Fallout and The Boys are also very good. Also continued The Expanse well.
The Boys was great. For about 1.5 seasons and then became an expensive, repetitive, gratuitous mess that made no effort to keep changing the formula. I actually convinced myself it was okay enough to get through the whole series then looked back and thought "I can't remember a single significant plot development that led to anything real beyond the first season."
i dunno, Stormfront was a good storyline, as was Soldier Boy. last season was TERRIBLE though and exactly as you say. just treading water.
They almost ruined that series with the budgeting/ animation. They saved it with the finale. I'm not going to hop the animation hate train, though. It definitely came down to budget/ time constraints.
I think they do a good job of choosing when to turn the heat up on that budget and when to dial it back.
I don't think they had that as well dialed in during Season 2, but I couldn't complain much about the Conquest fight. It could be miles and miles better, sure.
I'll take rough animation over that cgi trying to look like animation crap that never looks good.
What do you mean? Invincible handled the animation perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhndpv7sEqE
Didn't they do History of the World Part 2? That was a trainwreck.
that was hulu.
Curious what you consider they’ve ruined? I’ve liked a lot of the stuff they’ve put out compared to other services.
And MGM is no slouch.
Lord of The Rings
That is a very fair answer, if not them someone else unfortunately though. It was doomed to get more content eventually.
The Expanse
While I wouldn't say they've "ruined it" it felt like a significant drop in quality the moment Amazon took over.
Except Alcon was still making it and the budget didn't change. Season 6 got cut down to 6 episodes due to Amazon, though.
That and the whole there being three other books worth of material that the series just noped the fuck out of because amazon didn't want to keep making the series. They did the same thing with The Wheel of Time.
There's a 30 year gap in between the last episode and when the story starts again. That's a perfect place to end the show, and then pick it back up down the road.
Uh one of the main actors got in shit for sexual abuse, that ended any chance of having future episodes.
Amazon wouldn’t have left that cash cow behind, but there wasn’t going forward with that actor, or even rewriting them.
You can see how they went back and changed the end of the season already filmed scenes to rewrite the cancelation story in.
There was also a massive time shift coming up, it just wouldn’t work.
Actor contracts etc the longer a show goes on($$), and the time lapse between book 6 and 7. Still would be more than amazing to see on screen. And if one has seen the show and not read the books I cannot recommend them highly enough.
well that's not something they can really do with a single movie like Spaceballs 2.
Masbe that was the core of the issue.