I'm beginning to dislike Netflix (re: Archive 81, 1899, Warrior Nun etc cancellations)

[Paul Farquhar]

I loved the original Midway so much(It's my all time favorite war movie) that I haven't even felt the urge to see the new one.

I thought it was good, but I don't remember seeing the earlier version (I probably did a long time ago).

But I'm pretty sure it's a sequel to The Final Countdown.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I feel like I've read a completely different Eye of the World from you guys. There were no issues with my understanding what happened there. It was pretty clear to me. And it's not like I haven't heard this complaint before. I have and multiple times. It's bewildering to me.

Maybe you're just super-tuned-in to how Jordan writes? Or maybe your understanding is actually wrong, but you're very sure about it lol? I dunno. But the fact that you've heard this complaint a ton should tell you there's some reason it's coming up a lot, and it sure isn't "everyone but me is stupid" lol.

 

[Maxperson]

Maybe you're just super-tuned-in to how Jordan writes? Or maybe your understanding is actually wrong, but you're very sure about it lol? I dunno. But the fact that you've heard this complaint a ton should tell you there's some reason it's coming up a lot, and it sure isn't "everyone but me is stupid" lol.

Yep. That's why I said that it seems like I read something different, instead of, "You guys are wrong! Plththththt!"

 

[Ryujin]

Yep. That's why I said that it seems like I read something different, instead of, "You guys are wrong! Plththththt!"

Clearly, you are internetting wrong.

 

[Maxperson]

Clearly, you are internetting wrong.

I'll try to do better? worse? next time.

 

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Netflix Claims It's 'Never Canceled a Successful Show' - IGN

Netflix has a history of canceling series shortly after they begin, but the company says it doesn't drop the successful ones.

www.ign.com

 

[Paul Farquhar]

As a general point, I agree with the initial premise, Netfix is too quick to cancel shows. Some of the greatest TV series ever have taken several years to get into their stride and find their audience. Netflix throw too much stuff at the wall, hoping something will stick. They should create fewer shows, but shows they really believe in, and fully get behind. I also agree that they have problem with journalistic integrity over shows marketed as "documentary".

On 1899:

One specific example was the multiple times they used the First Class Berth hallway

This is one of the reasons I called it out as being an old school Doctor Who story (specifically, Carnival of Monsters (1973)). They did a lot of running up and down strangely identical corridors in Doctor Who! Amazon Prime also has it's own writers-grew-up-watching-too-much-Doctor-Who show: The Rig.

But a second series of 1899 was set up to be a completely different genre to the first, had it happened.

On Wheel of Time/ The Witcher:

It's a lot harder to do world-building on TV than in a novel (or RPG). There are both based on books I haven't read, so the TV show had to do most of the world building for me. And although I watched them, I can't say I ever really got into them. Personally, I preferred Willow, Rings of Power, and His Dark Materials, but then maybe I have idiosyncratic tastes.

And the best recent SF TV is The Orville, by far.

 

[Mirtek]

I tell my brother to watch the Watchmen film all the time. He tells me its "too long" and binges a season of something instead. lol

You need to ask him: If he won't, then who watches the Watchmen?

Netflix Claims It's 'Never Canceled a Successful Show' - IGN

Netflix has a history of canceling series shortly after they begin, but the company says it doesn't drop the successful ones.

www.ign.com

Well, history proves them right. Every show quickly plummeted once they cancelled them. There you see how accurate their foresight is

 

[Mad_Jack]

I'm sort of a fan of how the BBC and other British networks tend to do 10-episode story arcs as a "season".
I think if more American shows were trying to write for that sort of format they might not get cancelled so quickly.
Of course, I could also be competely wrong.

 

[Rabulias]

I wish shows could write for the story, not to fit some pre-set length. I have seen shows that should have been 6 episodes stretched out to 18 or more. And I have seen 10-episode seasons that needed more room to breathe and expand. I tell you, once I get that ring of wishes...