News CBS: Twilight Zone premiered with more viewers than DSC
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Never liked The Twilight Zone, and I'm never likely to
I dropped Netflix a little while ago. I still have Amazon Prime. I'll check out the new series on there at some point. Lots of good shows it sounds like, according to people whose opinions I trust.
I'm one of the most sporadic Twilight Zone viewers out there. It's been that way for decades. It's a great series, don't get me wrong, but its anthology nature makes me watch one here, one there, and then I'm all set. That's why I'm glad DSC is serialized. I'll watch from week to week. If it were an anthology, where we don't even see the same characters, I might've seen five episodes in the past two years. With DSC, as it is, I keep wanting to find out what'll happen next. At the end of an episode of TZ, the story's done. That's it. I'll catch another one some other time, when I feel like it.
I'm one of the most sporadic Twilight Zone viewers out there. It's been that way for decades. It's a great series, don't get me wrong, but its anthology nature makes me watch one here, one there, and then I'm all set. That's why I'm glad DSC is serialized. I'll watch from week to week. If it were an anthology, where we don't even see the same characters, I might've seen five episodes in the past two years. With DSC, as it is, I keep wanting to find out what'll happen next. At the end of an episode of TZ, the story's done. That's it. I'll catch another one some other time, when I feel like it.
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If you like DIS you will like the new twilight zone, much wokeness....
My wife and I made the decision over the weekend to cancel our Netflix subscription and hold onto CBSAA and subscribe to Disney+ when it starts up. I have Star Trek (and do intend to give TZ a chance) and the wife is really loving The Good Fight. And with the Star Wars and Marvel shows and, the Disney library for my wife and the kid stuff for our new baby boy (a week old today!), I think we’ll be content. Netflix did not make me happy with that announcement and there really isn’t that much I’m interested in on their service any longer.
But we too enjoy Prime for some excellent content and have Hulu for current network stuff, we’re pretty happy with our decision.
There is not much significance to this news since CBS AA has now more subscribers thanks to Discovery, and TZ premiered when Discovery was still showing new episodes (so Trek fans hadn’t cancelled yet).
I am going on a limb and predict that this record will be smashed when Picard premieres.
I am going on a limb and predict that this record will be smashed when Picard premieres.
How so, pray tell?
Two totally different types of shows that happen to fall under the general "sci-fi" genre. So no.
A bit like saying that you would like basketball if you like baseball just because they're both sports.
Jordan Peele is the anti-white king of woke-kanda. His movies and the twilight zone show us very starkly what his agenda is. If I need to spell it out then you must be deliberately blind to it....
Assuming, for argument's sake, this is all true, liking one still doesn't mean you would like the other. Not at all.
And I really don't want to get in a debate about what you mean by Peele's "agenda," but I will say that it appears I do not share your opinion.
Peele is half-white, was raised by his single white mother, and his first (and breakout hit) movie "Get Out" was a critique of upper-middle class performative wokeness amongst the American Left-wing.
How the fuck is that being the "anti-white king of woke-kanda?"
Because of the need to perpetuate the narrative of white male victimhood where none exists in any meaningful way. Always gotta be a victim, and always need a boogieman to be the victim of.
2019-TZ has a LONG way to go before I start enjoying it anywhere near my favorite iteration, which was the 80's version.
I agree that some people do play the victim card from time to time. But I don't think Peele is, and DO believe that there are problems in the U.S. that he is attempting to address.
I believe you misunderstood what I was saying. I was not talking about Peele. I was talking about the person above feeling the need to defame Peele. White victimhood is a ridiculous thing that has sprung up for various reasons I won't go into. Suffice to say, when you've enjoyed privilege, equality feels like oppression.
Yeah, that makes sense now. Sorry I misread your statement. I thought something was a bit wrong about it.
