Huh? So you're paying for something you don't get?
Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy and the Novels
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Huh? So you're paying for something you don't get?
Speaking of Prodigy novels, the third Prodigy YA novel is still scheduled to be published on 8/1 -- along with a box set of the first three Prodigy novels on 8/29.
I will be watching to see if those vanish from Amazon in the next little while.
I will be watching to see if those vanish from Amazon in the next little while.
Every time I read about a new development in this vein, it makes me really glad I wait for the DVD sets.
Tale a look. Up through "A Moral Star" part 2 they're individually available for purchase. Everything after says "This video is currently unavailable".
Yes, I did exactly that yesterday, so I already know that. That isn't my question. You said, quote, "It appears the whole first season can be purchased but only the first half can be watched." Which implies that you can purchase the second half, but cannot watch it even after paying for it. That's the part I'm asking about. Is that what you meant to say?
You had said "but season 1 can still be purchased on Amazon Prime Video" when it seems that you can't watch those episodes so that back half is still not available to watch legally. Amazon calls it season 1. They list all the episodes. It sure seems like those later ones aren't available to watch (yet), though.
You know, I could swear I edited my post last night to add the correction that only the first half-season was available. Maybe I forgot to hit "post" on my edit. But I still don't understand why you said "It appears the whole first season can be purchased but only the first half can be watched." You keep repeating what I already know instead of clarifying what you mean by that sentence. Are you saying they charge the cost of a full season while only offering half of it?
Amazon, iTunes, and probably other services give you the option to pre-order an entire season of TV once it begins airing, so you can get each episode immediately as it comes out without having to buy them each in turn (and also getting the discount of buying the entire season). It's a bit ambiguous because of the season-released-in-two-parts thing what you're actually getting (the season price seems low for 20 episodes, and more reasonable for 10), but Amazon, at least, lists season one of Prodigy as having 19 episodes, implying that once season 1.5 is released for purchase, those episodes would appear in your account automatically. I assume that'll be the same time the DVD/Blu-Ray is released, but I can't tell, iTunes and Amazon list the original P+ debut date, not the date they went on sale there.
You may be waiting a long time in this case.
Well, Quark eventually got released on DVD. And so did Search. And one of these days, I will post a definitive list of all the "Old Polish Proverbs" from Banacek, derived from my complete DVD set of that entire series. All of those series took forever to get released, but they did eventually come out.
Maybe, someday, somebody will finally release Steve Allen's magnum opus, Meeting of Minds, as a complete-series DVD set. In the meantime, I have the complete scripts, and a few off-air videotapes.
^ But as they are saying in the thread in the Prodigy forum, apparently if a show gets written off for tax purposes, it can never be released, because they are not legally allowed to make revenue from it. (I'm just repeating what I read, I don't actually know the legalities of this type of thing.)
So a lot will depend on what happens over the next little while. Sure, if they manage to find a buyer, then maybe someday we can get season 1 volume 2, or maybe even season 2. But if they don't, and it gets written off, then it pretty much disappears into a black hole.
So a lot will depend on what happens over the next little while. Sure, if they manage to find a buyer, then maybe someday we can get season 1 volume 2, or maybe even season 2. But if they don't, and it gets written off, then it pretty much disappears into a black hole.
Ah. Thank you for explaining.
P+ also presented the season as 19 episodes, since episodes 1 & 2 were combined into a double-length premiere. Although the one after that was still listed as episode 3, and so on.
Which doesn't seem to be the case here, since they've said they're going to complete post-production on season 2 and market both seasons to another provider/network -- which could actually turn out to be a positive, if someone else picks it up and is willing to order a third season or more. So it's confusing. I guess it's a different kind of "tax purposes" than it was with the Batgirl movie.
Sorry if I wasn't clear; there's a few different threads on this topic, and I sometimes forget which thread raised which points. Basically, my understanding is that they are trying to find a buyer for the show, and if they find one, then season 2 can air there (and as I mentioned to @hbquikcomjamesl , then maybe then we can even get physical media releases--but not guaranteed).
If, however, they don't find a buyer, then they would write off the show for tax purposes, and it would disappear. The two outcomes, per my understanding, are mutually exclusive. I believe my previous post is consistent with this understanding, but I did not spell out the conditions clearly, sorry.
Again, though, I am neither an accountant nor lawyer. I'm just repeating what I have learned from others who (I assume) understand this kind of thing better than I do.
I find it hard to believe that nobody would want to pick up a Star Trek series, or an animated series this well-made and critically acclaimed.
That depends entirely on their asking price, which may not be reasonable at all.
I guess I'm not prescient enough to know you intended to edit a post you didn't edit.
Again, that was never the part I was actually asking about. David cgc answered that question, so there's nothing more to say on that point.
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That they're looking for a network to air it is a positive sign for the moment. If CBS doesn't find a home for the series by the end of the year, then you can start worrying about the implications of a tax write-off.^ But as they are saying in the thread in the Prodigy forum, apparently if a show gets written off for tax purposes, it can never be released, because they are not legally allowed to make revenue from it. (I'm just repeating what I read, I don't actually know the legalities of this type of thing.)
So a lot will depend on what happens over the next little while. Sure, if they manage to find a buyer, then maybe someday we can get season 1 volume 2, or maybe even season 2. But if they don't, and it gets written off, then it pretty much disappears into a black hole.
Bottom line: Movie and TV writers are unionized. Book and comic writers are not.
EDIT: Oops. Just realized that I'm very late to this party and am responding to a post from three years ago.
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