CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar 2 - Electric Boogaloo-Fanboys gone WILD-too many hyphens
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I can't speak regarding Discovery, as haven't gotten around do seeing it. (Probably will see it eventually, if only to be part of the cultural zeitgeist.) That said, putting the first Star Trek series in over a decade behind a paywall in the U.S. while almost simultaneously creating a set of new "guidelines" that basically forbid the kind of long-form fan film that Axanar (and many other fan films) represents is going to rub some people the wrong way, especially if they don't like the new Star Trek they now have to pay for. And some of those people are going to think, metaphorically speaking, that the enemy of their enemy is their friend. Let's not pretend it's hard to understand, even if the person they choose to ally themselves with is definitely not worthy of their trust.
I do think it's weird the way Axanar supporters and Alt-Right YouTubers who produce Trek-related content intersect. I've only recently become aware of the sheer volume of YouTubers who claim to be true fans of Star Trek, but tend to throw around terms like "SJW" unironically, and I find it a little disturbing. I'm becoming so paranoid about watching sci-fi related YouTube videos that part of me half-expects EckhartsLadder to suddenly launch into a diatribe about "the Jewish conspiracy".
I do think it's weird the way Axanar supporters and Alt-Right YouTubers who produce Trek-related content intersect. I've only recently become aware of the sheer volume of YouTubers who claim to be true fans of Star Trek, but tend to throw around terms like "SJW" unironically, and I find it a little disturbing. I'm becoming so paranoid about watching sci-fi related YouTube videos that part of me half-expects EckhartsLadder to suddenly launch into a diatribe about "the Jewish conspiracy".
Dude, just stop!
Wow - Back to beat THAT particular dead horse one more time?
I think you got that backwards. I'm pretty sure not liking it would be the excuse for not wanting to pay for it, and that would qualify for buying or renting DVDs and/or Blue Rays as well.
And even if you have it right, if I were willing to pay to see STD in any form, wouldn't it be cheaper to just pay for CBSAA for a month and binge season one than it would to buy the season on Blue Ray or DVD?
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They only have to pay for it if they want to watch it. Don't like it? You don't pay for it. Problem solved!
Spoilers: It's behind a pay wall because it wouldn't last a hot second on network television. And it's not really a part of the cultural zeitgeist. Like, people aren't really talking about it, except for the same old same old people.
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Only because they would move it around on the schedule so no-one knows when it's on, put in on after football / basketball and join it in-progress, pre-empt it for Disney specials, air the episodes out of order, or whatefer else they can think of to kill it.
They did that with Babaylon 5, Space Rangers, Next Generation, and pretty much any other show they didn't understand.
I gleefully remind you that TNG had no time slot: local stations put it on any day or time they wanted during a given week, and I dunno what your local channel did, but where I was it never moved in seven years.
Um. No. That was like 20, 30 yeas ago. There really isn't first run syndication anymore. I'm talking about if CBS put it on... CBS.
And who is "they"? Because it's not CBS. They had nothing to do with Babylon 5 and TNG.
Let's try not to veer too sharply into politics (despite some parallels), please.
There seems to be a demographic which hates Disco and also loves Axa, but these are obviously not 100% aligned. The Venn diagram isn't a circle on top of a circle; there are definitely people who come down on only one side and not the other.
What puts someone on one side or the other, and not in the middle?
There seems to be a demographic which hates Disco and also loves Axa, but these are obviously not 100% aligned. The Venn diagram isn't a circle on top of a circle; there are definitely people who come down on only one side and not the other.
What puts someone on one side or the other, and not in the middle?
It's funny; everyone complains about the CBSAA paywall but no one bats an eye at Netflix, Hulu or Amazon (and now Disney) doing the same thing. It's like people don't even appreciate that ~$10 a month can give you dozens of first-run TV shows and literally hundreds, if not thousands of past shows and movies ON DEMAND!
Remember those days when you had to drive to Blockbuster and pay 5.99 to rent a videotape that would occasionally streak, snow or jam at lousy SD resolution? Double that and you get a months worth of unlimited access. $50 a month can get you all the streaming services. And how long before a Comcast or FIOS subscription will include a free Hulu or Netflix subscription?
Not to mention that nearly every streaming service offers a month long free-trial.
Remember those days when you had to drive to Blockbuster and pay 5.99 to rent a videotape that would occasionally streak, snow or jam at lousy SD resolution? Double that and you get a months worth of unlimited access. $50 a month can get you all the streaming services. And how long before a Comcast or FIOS subscription will include a free Hulu or Netflix subscription?
Not to mention that nearly every streaming service offers a month long free-trial.
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I like one show on CBSAA, and that's Discovery. Plus, the app causes so many headaches for people, and up until recently did for me, too. I'd prefer it be on Netflix, where I could watch it with the hundreds of thousands of TV show and movie options I already have. I get why people might be irked because they're paying $6 a month for one show, that *still* has commercials, and is often unreliably delivered.
I mean, I consider CBS to be the Cops/Military/Gameshows channel, and nothing else interests me.
Controversially, I’m going to say: TV execs generally know what they are doing. They are much more aware how the business works than we do. They are much more aware of what the general population watches more than we are. Are they perfect? No. But point to someone who is perfect in any field.
Lol. I thought forecasters always nailed it.