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They did pretty well for The Expanse and Fallout. But don’t let this get in the way of a good meme…
Just my opinion here, but I think Amazon Prime has quite a lot of good (original) content:
The Boys is good.
The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein.
Good Omens was very entertaining.
Not my jam, but people seem to like Clarkson's farm.
I also liked Invincible
The most recent boys season was a difficult watch, but the last episode was phenomenal and so I'm a sucker and will continue watching.
The Expanse is the one show I'm impressed by
of course, they then cancelled it. and every Amazon show I've seen since has been shot, notably Wheel of Time and Rings of Power
SyFy cancelled The Expanse. Amazon picked it up and funded it to completion. Although only because Bezos loves the novels and was livid that StyFy got it in the first place.
it's the "to completion" part that I am referring to
as I understand it, it was cut short
"They" didnt do The Expanse. "They" bought it up after it was cancelled by syfy. "They" didnt do that well with the three seasons they had. And Fallout is a fucking mess, that no one seems to care about lore and narrative wise.
The lord of the rings and wheel of time are 100% Amazon things. Citadel is another one. And they all fucking suck.
And the showrunner of the new Stargate show, is the same guy who did the sequel series for Quantum Leap. Which was also trash.
This will be another in a long line of nerd franchises, that will be turned into putrid trash by someone who either doesnt get what made it special, or someone who wants to make it something else altogether.
Heres the check list you know its already going to have:
Strong diverse female character lead.
LGBT focused side character for the express purpose of virtue signal instead of allowing them to be an actual character.
Strong female teal'q stand in, who is even "stronger" than Teal'q.
Bad guys will be symbolic representations of modern political pish.
Every character will speak only in Marvel style quips.
Someone is going to say "Chevron X locked" with dramatic effect... Because of course, theres going to be a new never before known Chevron that was found by strong diverse female character thats smarter than Danial Jackson...
Token white guy will be a moron or evil.
Because in modern hollywood, its message first, adventure second. They cant just create characters anymore, they create social media talking points that walk around saying social media things. Because thats what heroes do... in new hollywood. And then the audience leaves in droves, and the franchise gets shelved again only this time its got massive stain on it.
This will suck because the focus wont be on making Stargate. It will be social media pish in a Stargate wrapper.
Did I land on 9gag by mistake ?
So…. That was a lot of opinions you shared.
Actually, its a mix of opinion and observation. The issue is going to be whether or not you differentiate between the issue of using "diverse" people for personal gain/social media engagement and their inclusion in media. Since its a big issue in the ongoing culture wars, Im going to guess that Im seen as a massive bigot by some section of the peanut gallery that cant think for themselves. Which is always fun.
This guy busts ghosts.