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Honestly I think I am going to cancel my Max subscription. The main reason that I subscribed to it was for its broad range of exclusive animated content, like

Honestly I think I am going to cancel my Max subscription. The main reason that I subscribed to it was for its broad range of exclusive animated content, like Close Enough, Final Space, Infinity Train, and Adventure Time: Distant Lands. All but one of those have been removed from Max now (I guess for tax writeoffs and avoiding royalties?), and with their recent price increase for a bunch of awful reality TV shows, I'm done. I do not know that there's anything I care about less than "My 600 Pound Life", and no matter how much they try and get me to watch that or "Pawn Stars", I find it unlikely that that's going to change no matter how many times they try and convince me otherwise. I'm generally all for paying for my media (I have a lot of blu-rays, I own the entire series of Adventure Time and Adventure Time: Distant Lands on blu-ray), but I almost feel like piracy is kind of a civic duty at this point. If these corporations are going to make it impossible to watch their media legitimately, then the community needs to step and preserve the shows themselves. And maybe we should resist programs that are "exclusive to streaming".

jwells89 3y ago
> The main reason that I subscribed to it was for its broad range of exclusive animated content, like Close Enough, Final Space, Infinity Train, and Adventure Time: Distant Lands. All but one of those have been removed from Max now (I guess for tax writeoffs and avoiding royalties?), and with their recent price increase for a bunch of awful reality TV shows, I'm done. The depressing US tradition of animation (especially the 2D variety) being treated as third-rate or worse continues.
- tombert 3y ago
  Yeah, it's frustrating, especially since there's a lot of talented animation people that have a lot of interesting stories to tell. I'm not sure how they managed to get it past all the recent cuts, but Adventure Time: Fiona and Cake is genuinely pretty good thus far; clearly there's still a lot of smart and talented people at Cartoon Network and Warner Bros who just want make entertaining media and are being treated as "lesser" because they work with cartoons. I thought Infinity Train, for example, was fantastic, particularly season 2. It was a great show that used animation to showcase a lot of interesting art, while also working in metaphors about the frustrating nature of introspection and themes about individualism and personhood. Now they've replaced it with a TV show about a bunch of ostensibly "hot" mothers hitting on younger guys in a beach house.

jwells89 3y ago

> The main reason that I subscribed to it was for its broad range of exclusive animated content, like Close Enough, Final Space, Infinity Train, and Adventure Time: Distant Lands. All but one of those have been removed from Max now (I guess for tax writeoffs and avoiding royalties?), and with their recent price increase for a bunch of awful reality TV shows, I'm done. The depressing US tradition of animation (especially the 2D variety) being treated as third-rate or worse continues.

tombert 3y ago
Yeah, it's frustrating, especially since there's a lot of talented animation people that have a lot of interesting stories to tell. I'm not sure how they managed to get it past all the recent cuts, but Adventure Time: Fiona and Cake is genuinely pretty good thus far; clearly there's still a lot of smart and talented people at Cartoon Network and Warner Bros who just want make entertaining media and are being treated as "lesser" because they work with cartoons. I thought Infinity Train, for example, was fantastic, particularly season 2. It was a great show that used animation to showcase a lot of interesting art, while also working in metaphors about the frustrating nature of introspection and themes about individualism and personhood. Now they've replaced it with a TV show about a bunch of ostensibly "hot" mothers hitting on younger guys in a beach house.