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The Wave Master posted...

Netflix is doing the ultimate purge on all the Marvel Netflix shows; as Daredevil got the axe last night. Joining every Marvel show except The Pubisher and Jessica Jones. (Which I assume will follow shortly.)

I brought this up back as early as when they first cancelled Iron Fist, and everyone was trying to justify it by saying it was only because the viewership was low and production costs were high, and the other shows would all be fine.

The moment Disney admitted that they wanted to start their own streaming service, the writing was blatantly on the wall. These shows were straight up doomed no matter how popular they were.

My assumption is that the only reason they haven't said anything about Jessica Jones is because there's likely still another season currently in production or post-production. But they were willing to admit the other shows were done because they know nothing more is coming.



WhiskeyDisk posted...

I'm getting sick of everyone and their asshole brother starting their own streaming service. Half the point in cutting the cord is NOT to have to pay $100+ each month for the dozen shows I want to watch and 16 million I don't want to watch, but if everyone wants a piece of that pie, we've pretty much come right back around to the shitty cable TV model all over again.

I called this a while back as well.

For the people who REALLY had foresight, the risk of this was predictable the moment you had both Hulu and Netflix competing but also pushing for original programming (as opposed to rehashed shows that had already aired on other channels and which likely had DVD releases). But for the rest of us, it became obvious when you started seeing Amazon pop up with a service, and CBS started pushing their service, and so on.

The future is a world where there are a dozen different streaming services, each one individually costing $10-15 or so a month, so you wind up paying $200 a month (again) for everything you want to see. Or you learn new and interesting ways to pirate. Or just stop giving a shit about most things (my option of choice!).

Ironically, with cable companies desperately trying to find new ways to stay relevant in a world where customers are all bleeding off to streaming services, all we need now is for a clever cable company to switch itself over to a streaming aggregator that provide access to multiple streaming services with a shared UI cutting out all the busywork for the customer.



Zeus posted...

DD was the one I always cared about the most. I'm just happy we got that third season finally, even if the timeline was a letdown.

Their argument was that, because the season sort of ended on an up note, it was a better place to end the show than it might otherwise have been if they'd kept going and things got worse for Matt again.

I have no idea, though, since I've never seen a single episode. I have zero interest in Netflix as a service, and they fucked up the DVD releases for the show (season one is only on Blu-Ray for some reason, even though every other Marvel show and the second season of Daredevil IS on DVD).



Zeus posted...

The only thing Punisher has going for it is that it's a property that Disney doesn't necessarily want to touch given the more graphic nature.

That's not really a saving grace. That's how you get PG-13 Punisher movies.


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