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these seem like oddly specific complaints. personally i am impressed with the huge back catalog of old hanna barbera cartoons on the service it's pretty fun w

these seem like oddly specific complaints. personally i am impressed with the huge back catalog of old hanna barbera cartoons on the service it's pretty fun watching jetsons and seeing how far off some of their predictions were, but then other things are spot on.

Dirlewanger 6y ago
They're not specific complaints. Said complaints can even be attributed to several streaming services. Why even bother releasing collections of something when there's major gaps in content for no apparent reason? Omitting content, whether it be through sheer incompetence or the company volunteering as a censorship board, does the series a horrendous disservice to its legacy.
lostlogin 6y ago
> these seem like oddly specific complaints. personally i am impressed with the huge back catalog of old hanna barbera cartoons on the service I think the difference is that you have sat down and watched it and liked it, while the article author has done this previously and wants to again, but half is missing. Is all the Jetsons present? Is Hanna Barbera all there?
undefined1 6y ago
will you still be impressed if they also censor(ed) episodes of the Jetsons?
funemployed 6y ago
Totally agree, and I also generally find the article poorly written. I would reduce it to the following statements: 1. HBO is not showing the entire Tom and Jerry collection, which is bad because even though some episodes contain offensive stereotypes the show is culturally significant and unavailable elsewhere. 2. HBO streaming has bad UX. Most of the article seems devoted to 1 and focused on the 'cancel culture' reasons why HBO might not be showing the full catalog while also admitting that there is also a large amount of the catalog not on HBO that is not plausibly part of the several episodes that would be targeted for being cancelled. Seems like the premise of the article kind of falls apart at that point, a little self-refuting. Having the Jetsons and Flintstones on streaming has been a blast for me as well.

Dirlewanger 6y ago

They're not specific complaints. Said complaints can even be attributed to several streaming services. Why even bother releasing collections of something when there's major gaps in content for no apparent reason? Omitting content, whether it be through sheer incompetence or the company volunteering as a censorship board, does the series a horrendous disservice to its legacy.

lostlogin 6y ago

> these seem like oddly specific complaints. personally i am impressed with the huge back catalog of old hanna barbera cartoons on the service I think the difference is that you have sat down and watched it and liked it, while the article author has done this previously and wants to again, but half is missing. Is all the Jetsons present? Is Hanna Barbera all there?

undefined1 6y ago

will you still be impressed if they also censor(ed) episodes of the Jetsons?

funemployed 6y ago

Totally agree, and I also generally find the article poorly written. I would reduce it to the following statements: 1. HBO is not showing the entire Tom and Jerry collection, which is bad because even though some episodes contain offensive stereotypes the show is culturally significant and unavailable elsewhere. 2. HBO streaming has bad UX. Most of the article seems devoted to 1 and focused on the 'cancel culture' reasons why HBO might not be showing the full catalog while also admitting that there is also a large amount of the catalog not on HBO that is not plausibly part of the several episodes that would be targeted for being cancelled. Seems like the premise of the article kind of falls apart at that point, a little self-refuting. Having the Jetsons and Flintstones on streaming has been a blast for me as well.