Spoilers Short Treks 1x03 - "The Brightest Star" Promo

[Rahul]

I would guess that CBS's marketing strategy department, which most certainly has senior staff holding advanced educational degrees in their field and an extensive understanding of the broadcast and streaming entertainment industry, probably know what they are doing better than we do, whereas we base our thoughts on the strategy purely from supposition and emotion.

By all accounts - technological and content-wise, I absolutely wouldn't go so far as to insinuate any type of average competence over there at CSB All Access.

 

[JoseNoodles]

I kinda get vibes that there was some type of religious sacrifice going on. Perhaps the predator species are viewed as gods by the kelpiens.

Yeah it seems that Kelpian "shaman" character is guiding the other Kelpians to their doom. There could be Benedict Kelpians aware of what is going on and facilitating the harvest of their neighbors. Maybe they're trying to save their skins or appease the predators to keep them from harvesting everyone. Then again, all kelpians could be blissfully unaware until Saru discovers the horrible truth.

 

[Mudd]

I would guess that CBS's marketing strategy department, which most certainly has senior staff holding advanced educational degrees in their field and an extensive understanding of the broadcast and streaming entertainment industry, probably know what they are doing better than we do, whereas we base our thoughts on the strategy purely from supposition and emotion.

Your faith in the "science" of that is misplaced. They make bad calls at least as frequently as stock brokers. Success is a matter of being right just often enough, and the CBS culture is particularly conservative.

In any event, I certainly don't buy the ME type assertions that the Netflix disinterest was a surprise to CBS that has thrown off their plans in any way - they'd have had signatures and funding in place to cover the shorts before they even announced them, or the project would never have moved foward.