I don't think any other Streaming service provider can keep the series alive because it was a direct production of Netflix.
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I don't think any other Streaming service provider can keep the series alive because it was a direct production of Netflix.
If anyone was willing to buy the show off Netflix it could, but that’d be expensive as hell for a show that underperformed.
Simple numbers game. How many watch it, how many subscribe un subscribe etc. If it cost 100 million and it's not getting enough eyeballs.. Then why throw more good money away.
After 3 weeks, they seen it wasn't going to do the numbers they wanted so.. Axed.
So don't blame Netflix.. They okayed a director/showrunner , gave them money and hoped for the best. Didn't work out this time because the show was poop.
After 3 weeks, they seen it wasn't going to do the numbers they wanted so.. Axed.
So don't blame Netflix.. They okayed a director/showrunner , gave them money and hoped for the best. Didn't work out this time because the show was poop.
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Friday was not a good day for Cowboy Bebop fans. There were even detractors of the live-action adaptation said stuff on social media such as "she died because of how awful the show was" and so on.
Friday was not a good day for Cowboy Bebop fans. There were even detractors of the live-action adaptation said stuff on social media such as "she died because of how awful the show was" and so on.
Some humans are just awful.
WTF is wrong with people?!
I miss Killjoys!
We finished all 10 episodes and I really enjoyed them. I thought the show got better as it progressed and I loved the chemistry among our leads. I'm disappointed we won't be getting a second season, as I was looking forward to seeing where they would take the characters from this very different ending.
I'm not sure why so many of you hated Vicious. I thought the actor did a great job, and I welcomed the depth given to the character.
I *loved* this ep! Whitney was a terrific character and the recital/fight juxtaposition was fantastic. And, yeah, just like the original, I cried at the ending. Perfect.
Vicious' coup had to do with hating his father, not with needing to stage one.
I *really* liked this change. I think it made her more human. They weren't together long enough to see the less ideal parts of each other. But Julia - who started as a naive makeup artist then singer - went from thinking she needed Vicious to be "safe", then proving to be pretty smart, then realizing she doesn't need him at all.
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Agreed on all points.
This is the exact opposite of how you should handle this situation, if you are frustrated by them cancelling stuff, then you should make a point of watching stuff that interests you and encourage other people to watch it too. The idea is for more people to watch their stuff, not less.
Is Netflix really that much more "cancel happy" than the networks and cable channels?
What is really interesting is how much vicious seems to be motivated by protecting Julia from others. In a bad way sometimes, tied absolutely to his own ego. He *is* twisted. But so is basically everyone in that syndicate world and beyond. Jet being so straightforward in a world of corkscrewed people is outright dangerous to him, and he doesn’t get it until the end.
Faye also is sort of naive in that sense, but has defaulted to basically trusting no one as a defence, whereas Jet has misplaced loyalty repeatedly based on surface info.
Seeing how all that unwinds, all those loyalties — particularly spike who was loyal to his ‘brother’ until the scales fell, then loyal to Julia until he realised she wasn’t what he thought… basically there’s a through line of people believing in the idea of a person and refusing to see the reality.
It’s front and centre with Faye’s ‘mum’ and her arc.
It is also quite cheeky, for an adaptation to be so much about ‘you thought you knew this person, and you don’t really’.
I really really wanted a season two to finish those up, possibly on a more positive note, and the retro-future stuff was beautifully done.
But yes, a certain contingent of anime fans (younger ones) don’t really get things. Annoying. First GiTs, now this. Always stuff older anime fans like me were really interested in. Alita too, I suppose.
See, the thing is, it feels too much like a knee-jerk reaction to the poor ratings. I can maybe understand a month or two later, but just a few weeks later? It's one of their more expensive shows, one that I'd think they would be hesitant on cancelling so soon. I find that using the data from the first few weeks makes for a wrong assumption in an age where the whole concept is of being able to watch wherever and whenever we want. And there's a sort of double-standard in that too. What of the popular shows that go through periods of slow viewing actvity and binges when a new season is about to be dropped? Sometimes people discover them for the first time after promotions are renewed or simply want to rewatch, which proves that interest goes in waves. The fact that it got cancelled so early leads me to believe they didn't have full confidence in it to begin with, not to mention that to those who worked on it, it must feel psychologically damaging. "We pulled your show after two weeks" is probably not something you'd want to hear.
They likely had a contracted date by where they had to yay or nay a second season. Actors are booked for specific periods. You can’t just wait and see if there is an imminent renewal date.
None of us are privy to Netflix’s own data or market research. It could well be that their experience demonstrates that shows that tank on launch never or rarely ever build an audience later. A show that is so badly received that it (supposedly) has a 59% audience drop for its second episode and terrible word of mouth would seem a risky gamble to pour more money into.
They did it with that super hero one, except that show was pretty awful, honestly - I kept waiting for a twist that never came, it was played straight. But I was enjoying Bebop, now I'll probably never finish it cause they pulled the plug so quickly. I prefer Amazon Prime and I might give Disney+ a go.
Sorry, what show was that?
Oh, that I don't doubt. I mean, there's a reason for everything. But at two weeks? That's just awful, and it kind of feels mean-spirited. And it feels like awful planning on their part if that date is so close to their release date. "Yeah, we released it. But we're so sorry to have to tell you we cancelled it."
I'm currently watching Marco Polo, a show that was cancelled in 2016 after only 2 seasons, and I had originally given up on it early in season one, but I'm finding it much better than I originally felt about it.
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Them cancelling shows so soon after they drop isn't really that different from regular TV networks and cable channels canceling a show after one or two episodes. Even with them there's always a chance it could build more of an audience as the season goes on, especially now that you can usually go onto the app/website or a streaming service to watch at least the last handful of episodes, if not the entire season.
I recommend watching the anime series and, optionally, the movie and forgetting the live-action version exists.
It fortunately has an ending in the season finale, and it’s a down note, but that’s sort of in keeping with the original really. I found the live action was actually better for holding my interest than the original anime, and that’s unusual. Especially as the original isn’t exactly unknown or unloved by me.
One reason for this might be that a mostly-American riff on an anime that was steeped in a certain kind of Americana in the first place makes a certain kind of sense.