I'm barely to the massacre and I can already tell I'm going to be screaming at every this-makes-no-sense decision made by the writers (your temple is under violent attack, and you evacuate the kids... to a barely enclosed corner in a prominent temple room? Instead of to the hundreds of sky bison that were highlighted as flying in earlier? Why?) (And Aang left to clear his head and think instead of to run from his duties? That's such a less compelling plot arc?) (And the show had him briefly monologue about being a goofy kid who loves pies and his friends instead of using the extended temple scene to show any of that? Didn't want to pay more child actors, did you, Netflix?)
Yeah I'm just. Going to be screaming at the screen instead of enjoying this. Different decisions aren't necessarily bad, but when those decisions seem to be in the direction of "show a man burning alive before we even get to the on-screen massacre" this is just... not the show for me.
that new Netflix show looks cool and all, but isn’t the writer’s strike still going?
update (July 30):
To those explaining WGA has not called for boycott and why, thank you, I genuinely appreciate you all. Sorry this response took so long. I just figured out how to view reposts.
To those who do not know, it is extremely likely a mass drop in subscriptions will turn into an excuse to say “streaming services are not a stable way to get revenue, so your work does not hold any real value for us”. A boycott has not been called as a result.
ok the rate at which shows are being canceled after one season is becoming more and more ridiculous and excruciating to the point where they dont even give people TIME to watch the shows anymore!! i will be recommended a good show by a friend and think “ooo im excited to watch when im not super busy” and then just a month later before i even had the chance to watch it, its already canceled.
and these days whats considered a “successful show” has to surpass hundreds and hundreds of millions, sometimes over a BILLION hours streamed to be worthy of renewing but when shows get somewhere between 50 million and 100 million theyre treated like they were a complete flop even though that is STILL MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE INVESTED IN THE SHOW AND WOULD WATCH FUTURE SEASONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was going to watch that show. i was so beyond excited to watch that show. it had one of my favorite actors in it and it was produced by the same creators of my favorite show of all time. but because i have responsibilities from work and school like a normal fucking adult, i couldnt make the time to watch it and now only a week after i was recommended the show, it was already canceled.
i am used to mourning stories that ive become attached to that will never be complete, but this is altogether different. you didn’t even give me a chance to meet these characters or watch this story. a story that an entire cast and crew of probably thousands of people put all their hearts and soul and TIME into and yet you gave it just a fucking month before you decided it was unworthy of pursuing. even though tens of millions of people who were lucky enough to have been available to watch it at the time thought otherwise.
Like, I understand the purpose here was most likely to make Hiromasa acquainted with Douman and notice how she and Seimei perceive the “entertainment” differently but the way it happened is so funny. Seimei brings him along “just because” and has her call him out on it. She expects to have a typical games night with her rival (or whatever they call each other) but suddenly there’s a whole ass new man in the building with them. So she has to summon one of her shikis to keep him occupied. Terribly entertaining AND she gets to rise eyebrows and question Seimei about it. AND the funniest part is that Seimei doesn’t even have an answer for her??? Both of them are so down bad for different reasons it’s taking me out. A+ show purely for how their dynamic works
Me watching Wednesday for the seventeenth time: Thornhill Gates knew about Rowan’s attempt on Wednesday’s life so she asked Tyler to keep an eye on her during the Harvest festival, which is why he offered to “give her a ride free of charge”. Worst case scenario, he could still kidnap her ass and Thornhill could keep her locked up until she was needed, blaming Wednesday’s sudden absence on a successful escape attempt (cops really don’t give a shit about runaway cases, after all). And furthermore—
nothing will ever make me angrier than Netflix taking Jacques and Jerome, with their incredibly compelling and thematically important relationship that is never explored in the ASOUE books because it's already over and it's the recollection of it that deeply affects and reveals their characters, putting them in the same room in the same conversation in TEE part 2 and not even acknowledging that they know each other
Thinking about the scene in episode 6 where George declines going to the Fittes party, opting instead to stick with Joplin and keep researching and Lockwood is clearly upset/irritated about this and it’s just like -
this happens like, right on the heels of him seeing Lucy talking to Kipps and you can just see how, in his eyes, his team is being pulled away from him. Like, it’s hitting him that they have better options than him now and how can he compete and of course they’d leave him at the first opportunity and I just