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Except you need food to live and tv shows are an artificially scarce resource that's actually free to distribute in unlimited quantities, so the harm is very di
by thisisnotauser 10mo ago
Except you need food to live and tv shows are an artificially scarce resource that's actually free to distribute in unlimited quantities, so the harm is very different.
- ClikeX 10mo agoReal people work in this industry, though. A merger of this size is bound to come with some layoffs and canceled projects. It's not as bad as food scarcity, of course. But it can do some collateral damage.
- orionblastar 10mo agoDoes that mean the DCU Movies might get delayed or canceled?
- dabockster 10mo agoThat, plus fewer studios mean less creativity goes to the mainstream. If you thought AI slop was bad, go re-watch Star Wars Episode 8.
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoYou will still have Amazon, Apple, Paramount, Disney, and NetMax spending billions each on content and streaming and Sony being the mercenary creating content for the highest bidder. WB under Discovery was already becoming an also ran and more financial engineering than a real company.
- AlexandrB 10mo agoSeems like a bad example. The problem with Episode 8 was not lack of creativity. Episode 7 was a complete retread of "A New Hope" and a bigger offender. At least blue Jedi milk is new.
- bananaflag 10mo agoEpisode 8 was a retread of Empire Strikes Back (ships chase through empty space while the main character trains with the old master on a wild planet). It seemed subversive just because ESB was subversive relative to ANH.
- NBJack 10mo agoComplete with "this guy will help us" to "oh no, they betrayed us!"
- staticman2 10mo agoEpisode 8 was subversive because it had self aware moments "trolling" the audience throughout like Luke mocking the idea Rey (and the audience) thought he would pick up a lightsaber again. It also has weird "subversive" dialogue about sacrifice being bad that doesn't really fit what's happening in the movie itself where sacrifice of two characters saves the day. Which is "subversive" in the sense that a movie with dialogue saying "this is a shitty movie plot" is subversive. It also rips off the ending of Return of the Jedi by killing the main bad guy so is "subversive" in that it trolls whoever was stuck making episode 9 without a functional villain.
- i80and 10mo agoI mean, 8 was easily the most functional of the new trilogy, if a somewhat overly ambitious muddle, so that's a bad example. There is a real problem with too many sequels and adaptations though.