News The Disney+ (The New Streaming Service) Thread

[crookeddy]

The issue with this service is that the UI is straight out of 2003. No discovery options to speak of (other than curated lists), doesn't tell me what I watched, no way to resume if you leave early. It's A-list content and D-list interface.

Netflix doesn't pay HUGE money to their AI engineers just for fun - modern services are expected to know what you want to watch before you know it yourself.

 

[Campe]

The issue with this service is that the UI is straight out of 2003. No discovery options to speak of (other than curated lists), doesn't tell me what I watched, no way to resume if you leave early. It's A-list content and D-list interface.

Netflix doesn't pay HUGE money to their AI engineers just for fun - modern services are expected to know what you want to watch before you know it yourself.

Gotta agree. The system sucks. But the content is amazing.

My left foot for a progress bar in the menu.

 

[tomalak301]

I watched 3 more episodes of Darkwing Duck tonight and I have to say this show is still as funny as I remembered it. Some of it is a little corny, but this really is a show that doesn't take itself seriously and I'm having such a fun time with it so far. Also, Goslyn is kinda amazing.

 

[kirk55555]

Yeah, from the bit of Darkwing Duck I can remember (and I few episodes I've watched on a DVD set that I've had for awhile), Goslyn was one of the better cartoon kid characters of the era. She's certainly better then the boy in Talespin, which I tried to watch today but I just cannot stand the kid so I had to stop (TS wasn't a show I had any nostalgia for anyway, so its no big loss that it really bugged me).

 

[.:: TSN ::.]

The issue with this service is that the UI is straight out of 2003. No discovery options to speak of (other than curated lists), doesn't tell me what I watched, no way to resume if you leave early. It's A-list content and D-list interface.

Netflix doesn't pay HUGE money to their AI engineers just for fun - modern services are expected to know what you want to watch before you know it yourself.

No resume? What? Now I'm glad that the Netherlands and the USA are betatesters for the rest of the world. Watched list and resume are mandatory. Hopefully they will be added before the service properly launches.

 

[JD]

The issue with this service is that the UI is straight out of 2003. No discovery options to speak of (other than curated lists), doesn't tell me what I watched, no way to resume if you leave early. It's A-list content and D-list interface.

You can resume, I had to stop and restart The Mandalorian about 3 or 4 times because it kept freezing up on me, and each time I started back up it went right back to where I left off.
It is really annoying that it doesn't indicate in any way what you've watched though. That is really bugging me.
I watched the first 4 episodes of Talespin, which made up the pilot movie, and I actually ended up enjoying it a lot more than I expected. I originally planned on watched it out of nostalgia, but I actually ended up honestly enjoying it.

 

[kirk55555]

While I wasn't into Talespin, I'm getting ready to rewatch The Mighty Ducks cartoon (where its about alien ducks who come to Earth and battle bad guys while pretending to be human hockey players in their off hours). I watched the VHS of the first few episodes so many times as a kid that its probably the Disney Afternoon show that I have the second most nostalgia for, after the original Ducktales (which aired in syndication a fair amount when I was a kid, which is why I have nostalgia for it even though its last episode aired when I was barely a month old), and Darkwing Duck probably being a distant third.

I will say that some of the episode order mix ups are annoying me. I've had to write down the order of episodes for X-Men just so I can watch it correctly (for an example of how bad it can get, they actually put the first episode of The Dark Phoenix Saga at the end of the other episodes of the saga ).

Unrelated to the Disney Afternoon stuff, I'm also doing a rewatch of the important/good episodes of The Clone Wars cartoon, both to prepare for the new season and because I'm in a Star Wars mood.

 

[Noname Given]

No resume? What? Now I'm glad that the Netherlands and the USA are betatesters for the rest of the world. Watched list and resume are mandatory. Hopefully they will be added before the service properly launches.

Yeah, keep hoping. I doubt you'll see much of a change in the near future. They'll need to spend more upgrading their backbone and backend services first.

 

[UssGlenn]

no way to resume if you leave early

I had no problem starting The Rocketeer right where I left off. My complaint is there is no to start from the beginning button. You've watched a show to the end credits, how do you get back to the beginning without rewinding? One option is to fast forward to the end and hope it resets. That didn't work for one of the Toy story shorts I watched, it got caught in a loop of the foreign language credits at the end (it's apparently a separate file).

The TV episodes are also not quite in the right order and aren't broken up into seasons correctly on some shows. And of course the TV shows are where a previously watched indicator is vital.

 

[JD]

Yeah, having nothing to indicate which episodes I've watched of the older shows is going to get to be a real pain in the ass. I foresee a lot of going back to the episode guides on either Wikipedia or one of the franchise specific Wikis to figure out where I left off, especially if I go more than a few days between episodes.

 

[Anwar]

I enjoyed watching episodes of the 90s Hulk cartoon.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I was checking it out at a friend's house the other day and noticed that the second season of Rebels was missing the back half of the season on the menu. The episodes are there, you just have to go to episode 11 and fast forward to the end and episode 12 will start and so forth, but I was unable to go directly to episode 12 or beyond..

 

[JD]

Weird.
They definitely have some bugs to work out when it comes to the TV shows.
I forgot to mention before that the first episode of Tron Uprising was up this morning.
Where does Uprising take place in the timeline? I've was planning on going through the two movies and Uprising, but I wasn't sure when to watch the show.

 

[tomalak301]

Yeah, having nothing to indicate which episodes I've watched of the older shows is going to get to be a real pain in the ass. I foresee a lot of going back to the episode guides on either Wikipedia or one of the franchise specific Wikis to figure out where I left off, especially if I go more than a few days between episodes.

I noticed this on Amazon Prime Video a few days ago. I'm doing a rewatch of The Expanse to get ready for the next season and I have to rewind the episodes for each because there is no starting from the beginning or anything like that. That was a bummer.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Greg Weisman teases new Gargoyles...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/comicb...yles-creator-teases-show-return-greg-weisman/

I bring it up here because I imagine Disney plus would be the home of any new episodes, given that the original series has finally been made available again on Disney plus.

Speaking just for myself, this prospect has me just as excited as any Star Wars or Marvel project.

 

[ichab]

I never understood the outcry. Whatever. Have fun with all the edits

I guess the best way to understand it is to take one of your favorite scenes from a movie you loved growing up and change it in a way that completely destroys it.Like adding in NOOOOOOO!!!! as Vader throws the Emperor down the shaft......oh never mind, that happened too.

Fans wouldn't have cared what Lucas did to those movies as long as the original versions were available. But I digress. This newest edit makes it even worse. At least my Blu Ray version had those shots going off more smoothly. This is just.......weird.

On the plus side I did enjoy the first episode of Mandolorian and look forward to watching the Dark Vader series that was suggested. Really nice touch Disney

 

[fireproof78]

I guess the best way to understand it is to take one of your favorite scenes from a movie you loved growing up and change it in a way that completely destroy

But its not destroyed. And I've been there for years.

 

[JD]

Anybody know why The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series isn't on Disney+? I was really hoping this would be my opportunity to finally finish watching it, but it's not up there. I just realized the Neal Patrick Harris CGI series isn't either.

 

[Takeru]

Greg Weisman teases new Gargoyles...

OMG! I'm trying not to scream because it's the middle of the night but this might be the best thing in a long time, I loved the original so much and the official comic continuation was awesome too (way too short though).

 

[fireproof78]

Anybody know why The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series isn't on Disney+? I was really hoping this would be my opportunity to finally finish watching it, but it's not up there. I just realized the Neal Patrick Harris CGI series isn't either.

Both appear to still be under contract to Netflix and Amazon.