And the Next Cancelled Show is...
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Crap. I liked that show. Well, maybe the show runners can shop it around. At least maybe Netflix might be able to give them a good closing season.
The coming third season of Marvel's What If on Disney+ will be the last one.
Except we know we have two Wakanda shows coming up with Eyes of Wakanda being a centerpiece show of the MCU (see my most recent post in the MCU thread regarding the latter point).
That is just not fair. I really like where that show was going. Dammit!!And now Outer Range on Prime is cancelled too. And it also ended on a huge cliffhanger.
Grrrr....
Apparently the Horizon Zero Dawn TV series has been axed due to allegations against Steve Blackman.
https://www.ign.com/articles/horizon-zero-dawn-tv-series-no-longer-moving-forward-at-netflix-report
https://www.ign.com/articles/horizon-zero-dawn-tv-series-no-longer-moving-forward-at-netflix-report
I sort of knew their was talk about a show ser in Wakanda but I thought it was going to be live action. Actually kind of disappointed to think it might just be a cartoon. I think a live action show focused on the everyday people outside of the royal family would be really cool. I always saw it as a chance to explore the idea that this perfect society is not so perfect. The years of not being part of the bigger world and being a country that is ran by royalty instead of democracy has allowed a sort of secret underground society form, that wants to change how things are done in Wakanda.
IIRC, there is also a live action Wakanda show in development as well.
People are still saying "just a cartoon" in this day and age? 
People still minimalize graphic novels as simple “comic books”, too. Comes with the territory of enjoying something less-than-mainstream, I guess.
People are still saying "just a cartoon" in this day and age?
I actually like lots of cartoons. Clone Wars,Rebels,What If,Star Trek Prodigy etc. I was just really hoping for a live action show set in Wakanda and would be disappointed if we only got a cartoon.
You're still missing the point. As 137th Gebirg noted, you're minimalizing animated shows by continuing to say "if we only got a cartoon." Animated shows and films have long since demonstrated that they can tell excellent stories with engaging characters just as well as live-action productions and often can do things that live action cannot. I don't even mean just the spectacle: I cannot imagine Grave of the Fireflies being as powerful as it is if it isn't anime. Still powerful but anime gives the story an extra level of oomph.
But I agree cartoons can be good. But so can live action stuff. One thing I would miss out on not getting a live action show would be acting and some of the little nuances that are hard to replicate with cartoons. Cartoons are great at providing scope and bigger than life adventure and you can do stuff you can't do in real life but at the same time it's hard to replicate chemistry between actors and seeing. Plus live action stuff just feels more real. For example I loved Clone Wars and Rebels in SW but I would have been disappointed if we only got that and no The Mandalorian or Andor. Cartoons to me is like icing on the cake and sometimes is better than cake but I will always love and want cake.
I get what you’re trying to say, and I agree in principle. However, I think it boils down to the over-simplified use of the word “cartoon” in this specific context. It has a somewhat negative connotation as being akin to Loony Toons, Flinstones, Tom & Jerry, etc. Kids’ shows. It’s why I love how the Japanese smartly invented the term “anime”. It has established itself as containing subject matter that frequently treads into adult plot lines. Yes, kids watch it (my 11YO daughter is an anime otaku, and I’m a proud papa for it), but it’s also very much an adult art form. Unfortunately, “anime” is also particularly Japan-centric and western-sourced animation lacks a similar term. All we have are just simply “cartoons”, which does such elevated work a great disservice. Dare I say, demeaning?
I dunno…. Am I making too much of a big deal about it?
I dunno…. Am I making too much of a big deal about it?
I get that but I have always just sort of used it as the sort standard word for animation. Even though most animation isn't even hand drawn or anything. You know the one that I find hard to define these days is this. With so many shows sometimes having as little as 6 episodes a seasons I even wonder if it's correct to call them a series or a mini-series. Like the John Adams mini series had 7 episodes which was 1 episode longer than Echo, Obi-Wan etc shows on Disney. Black Mirror a few years ago only had 3, and maybe 4 if you counted Bandersnatch.
I think "miniseries" still has a connotation with the sprawling, expensive, melodramatic miniseries of the 1970s and '80s (think Roots, The Winds of War/War and Remembrance, North and South, The Thorn Birds, etc.), and so "limited series" seems to be a more popular term now.
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