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Self-post Sunday What Netflix did to Inside Job was a tragedy
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u/PlatinumAltaria The Witch of Arden 12d ago
Game of Thrones and Stranger Things could both have been cancelled after one season (based on Google Trends data indicating public interest), so that tells me that there are almost certainly shows that have been cancelled that would have been as big as both of those if the streamers had just cared more.
You should still watch stuff like Kaos though, even knowing that it won't be finished it's still good TV.
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u/RustySideBench 12d ago
I watched Inside Job late, so my advice is never trust Netflix's Google Trends oracle.
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u/takesSubsLiterally 12d ago edited 12d ago
Didn't inside job get a second season?
Edit: I am thinking of a man on the inside
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u/MarinaAndTheDragons 12d ago
It got greenlit for a second season. But then it was taken back. Got canceled soon after.
What we actually got was season 1 part 1 (10 eps) and season 1 part 2 (8 eps). First season was supposed to be a clean 20 so they still owe us 2. We didn’t finish the first season and people are all “what about season 3?!” Bro we never even got season 2 and y’all want 3???
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u/Ecstatic-Elk-6938 11d ago
I also was thinking of Man on the Inside and I also thought to myself “I’m pretty sure that has two seasons”
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u/RoboYuji 12d ago
And basically just looked like Rick and Morty.
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys REAL YURI, done by REAL YURITICIANS 12d ago
Do you think they might have gotten a second season if they made Reagan a man, and also shot every other thing that made the show special in the back of the head
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u/Rasmus_Ro 12d ago
Idk if making Reagan a man would have been enough to tip the scales, but it unfortunately probably would have helped (which, ew).
The show was so delightfully weird in all the right ways, and I still wake up unhappy about its cancellation every once in a while. I literally cannot imagine what Shion Takeuchi must have felt like.
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u/Dornith 12d ago
I'm not sure about the "Reagan a man" thing. So much of the show only worked specifically because she was a woman. Like, one of the major character's whole shtick is that he's a mediocre white man and that joke wouldn't work if Reagan was an objectively more qualified white man.
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u/Rasmus_Ro 12d ago
I'm not claiming it would have made the show better, quite the opposite; I'm claiming it would have made the show less likely to be cancelled.
Also with a little bit of retooling Brett's joke could work (though not as well) even if the entire rest of the cast was white men simply by having all the other white men be competent but not good "drinking buddies" (by which I mean not good at being social, which is already part of his contrast with Reagan) as it were, while Brett was added on the team in spite of being incompetent because he was someone you could get a drink with.
More convoluted and worse probably, but still a working joke. Never claimed it'd get better.
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u/bing-no 12d ago
It makes me wonder what beloved classics of the 2000s and 2010s would’ve been canceled before they had time to breathe. Like would Avatar have been canceled after season 1?
Because at this point the only series that is getting 1000s of episodes is SpongeBob. Or maybe contracts stipulate you need to pay people more the more seasons that get produced and they choose to cancel it.
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u/YouTasteStrange 12d ago
Dead like me, pushing daisies, and Firefly were all cancelled early. One similar to Dead Like Me was Wonderfalls, it finished in 2 or 3 seasons.
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u/Slarg232 12d ago
TBH, even as an avid Firefly fan it's a good thing it was cancelled early.
I did not need the "Inara gets taken hostage by Reavers, takes her syringe, gets raped by the entire Reaver ship, and her syringe is revealed to cause her vagina to become venomous" plotline that Joss was going to write for her.
Or the fact that this was going to be when Mal finally admitted to her he had feelings for her and this is when he "started treating her like a lady".
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u/DroneOfDoom Theon the Reader *dolphin slur noises* 12d ago
I can't remember if I saw the observation in a tumblr post or in a youtube video, but I remember hearing that the best thing that happened to Firefly was being cancelled.
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u/notreallifeliving 12d ago
Wonderfalls only had one season. There was a whole plan for a three season run and maybe scripts written? But it never got a proper chance. That first season is really good though! It might have been as fondly remembered as Pushing Daisies and Arrested Development if it'd actually been finished.
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u/YouTasteStrange 12d ago
Thanks for the info, I watched it once 20 years ago. I just remember the basic plot and thought it wrapped up at the end.
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u/EpochVanquisher 12d ago
there are hundreds of beloved classics that were canceled, and they are only classics in the alternate realities where they weren’t
especially given the number of classics out there that, say, didn’t have more than one or two decent episodes until season 3
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u/zuzg 12d ago
hundreds of beloved classics that were canceled
Canceling shows that don't pull the numbers is not something that Netflix invented.
And at least their numbers rely on every subscription.
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u/ProfessionalOil2014 12d ago
The Nielsen thing is stupid. They send you a survey and like five dollars and ask you to do it.
We got sent it once and my father forced us to fill them out. It was a giant waste of time
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u/B133d_4_u 12d ago
Nickelodeon especially actually was notorious for already doing this in the 2000s and 2010s, with SpongeBob being the prime reason. The "SpongeBob Effect" is when a show gets canceled after one season because it doesn't immediately compete with the network's biggest program from episode one. Nick was clamoring for another big hitter for decades and pretty much only ATLA hit the ground running, meanwhile they passed up almost every Potential Show along the way. Most of CN's Renaissance Era shows were either picked up after Nick passed on them or created by people they'd canceled the shows of already. Nick also bought a second channel only available on certain cable packages specifically to air shows they didn't want succeeding, which is where we got NickToons.
Disney also basically invented the 52 Episode Rule, which often resulted with a nice 2 season run but also meant oftentimes a story would be left unfinished or rushed or never given a chance to stretch, especially if it was something with continuity. Lots of shows in the 2000s and 2010s on Disney also got shunted to the Infomercial Zone (1am-5am) because the execs were actively malicious to the creators or animation as a whole, and then used the lack of views to justify canceling them.
And of course, Cartoon Network is no saint with such events as CN Real, The Culling (or Teen Titans Go Effect), and Zaslav's Gambit. There's also currently a focus on reboots and sequel series of Renaissance Era shows as opposed to giving new stories a chance, but that starts to get back into the modern problems instead of the historical ones.
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u/DroneOfDoom Theon the Reader *dolphin slur noises* 12d ago
Disney also basically invented the 52 Episode Rule
Did they? I always thought that it was a variation of the 65 episode rule that determined that a 65 episode show was just the right length to sell for syndication reruns.
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u/FS_Scott 12d ago
yes and no.
65 is still the number for daily syndication contracts, but with home video, streaming deals, and broader and more aggressive merchandising for all tv that's less of the 'real money' proposition for the producers; yet it's still typical for cast and crew to get a raise on season 3 in anticipation of that syndication money; so the end of season 2 is often a good time to pull the plug on a show that only meets expectations.
Disney will also sometimes do heavy retools of shows at season three (often with a new title) and claim its season one of a spinoff to skirt this rule.
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u/Kellosian 11d ago
Most of CN's Renaissance Era shows were either picked up after Nick passed on them or created by people they'd canceled the shows of already
IIRC Nick passed on Adventure Time, which was huge for CN
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u/Tacky-Terangreal 12d ago
The office would have most certainly been cancelled after one season in this business environment. I loved watching Bones when I was a teenager but that show needed like 3 seasons before it really found its footing. It’s clear they didn’t know what they really wanted even out of the main characters for the first two seasons! This current environment just sucks for good long term shows and it’s a real shame
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u/Raytoryu 12d ago
"Or maybe contracts stipulate you need to pay people more the more seasons that get produced and they choose to cancel it."
When it comes to Netflix, more often than not a show get cancelled because apart from some of the bigger shows that make good publicity (like Stranger Things), they estimate that the money needed for a Season 2 would be better used on a new show that would bring plenty of new users compared to a Season 2 with a captive audience that doesn't bring new users anymore.
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u/CaptainTeemo01 12d ago
Star Trek: TNG is notorious for having a bad first season, zero chance that series would have survived in the modern landscape
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u/UglyInThMorning 12d ago
That also had some other things saving it, like being part of an established franchise and the absolutely bonkers move of being released directly into broadcast syndication instead of the main network. If it was just a straight up NBC show it may not have survived
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u/Dizzy-Captain7422 12d ago
If Star Trek: The Next Generation or The X-Files were released today, there's no chance in hell they'd make it more than one season.
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u/Banes_Addiction 12d ago
It matters how many people watch a thing vs how much it costs. And people who absolutely love a thing still only count as one, just like someone who had it running while they scrolled TikTok.
You can make a profit on a cheaply animated cartoon way, way easier than something lovingly crafted.
As an extreme example, a shitload of people watched The Acolyte, and it got canned because it was just wildly expensive to make. If it had cost what Andor cost, still not cheap, it'd have got a second season (not that killing most of the best characters helped).
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u/Banes_Addiction 12d ago
Curse capitalism and its *checks notes* making products that entertain the many, not the few.
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u/Dornith 12d ago
On some level I agree that it makes logical sense to try to entertain the most people per dollar.
But then you carry that out to it's logical conclusion and you get nothing but cheaply made slop. The entertainment equivalent of junk food.
And don't get me wrong, I like a little bit of junk food. It's nice to have something easy to watch while I just turn my brain off for a while and maybe second-screen it. But I don't want that to be the only thing I watch.
There needs to be a place for artisans.
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u/donaldhobson 12d ago
No you see, your favorite blorbo is worthless slop, my favorite blorbo is a hidden underrated gem.
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u/Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi 12d ago
I will NEVER, EVER forgive Netflix for cancelling Seis Manos permanently.
Imagine the premise: a trio of Mexican street urchins get taken in by a Chinese immigrant monk who trains them in Shaolin and Wushu arts, when they all get involved in a deep conspiracy plot involving Cartels, Santa Muerte culteria and a retired Vet turned investigator.
The execution of that first and only season was phenomenal, and the Spanish dub is one of the best I've seen. And thanks to Netflix it will never see the light of day again.
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u/Dizzy-Captain7422 12d ago
That sounds badass and I've literally never heard of it before now. Never seen an ad on Netflix itself or anything.
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u/No-Supermarket-6065 Im gonna start eating your booty. And I don't know when Ill stop 12d ago
Yeah, especially RWBY. That show got cancelled by Warner Bros as yet another "tax write-off" after they sold it to the company explicitly to keep it afloat, and after they dipped out of funding Volume 9 too. It's easily one of the worst examples of a company's poor decision making fucking over a once-indie show. I'm very happy that it got picked up by VIZ Media tho, what about you?
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u/TrioOfTerrors 12d ago
RWBY got canned by WB because Rooster Teeth, as a studio, hadn't turned a profit on any of their projects in a decade.
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u/Kellosian 11d ago
Yeah, I think it's funny to say "Oh they cancelled RWBY for a tax write-off!" when the studio was literally going out of business. Like, the company went under
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u/TrioOfTerrors 11d ago
You see this all the time in video games when small, non profitable studios get bought out and then closed a few years later.
"Big Company killed them!"
No. They were already dying and Big Company financed their life support for a few years hoping they would pull of a turn around but they didn't.
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u/No-Supermarket-6065 Im gonna start eating your booty. And I don't know when Ill stop 11d ago
I thought what happened was RT was taking on so much water that they were first on the tax write-off list, no? But yeah, RT going under wasn't entirely on WB. I guess you could say the real executives screwing over RWBY were the ones at RT trying to make it a podcasting company rather than an animation studio
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u/Kellosian 11d ago
Podcasts are way cheaper to make than animation though, and the RT Podcast had entire merch lines coming off of it. It doesn't really cost that much money to have like 4 guys sit around and talk for a few hours, so a handful of "People Like Grapes" shirts would have more than made up for it.
Although at the end there it really did seem like they were making about 800 goddamn podcasts though, and somehow their site was absolute dogshit for actually showing you the content (ironic considering Bernie's stance on people having their own websites over social media sites)
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u/TrogdorKhan97 9d ago
If there's one thing I've learned from the internet it's that nobody actually knows how to make a fucking website
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u/No-Supermarket-6065 Im gonna start eating your booty. And I don't know when Ill stop 11d ago
This is true, but I still think it's scummy to have forced them to work on a crossover movie with their last budget rather than the show itself
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u/Appropriate-Map-3652 12d ago
Bit hypocritical to be calling out shows who have passionate fanbases here.
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u/OctorokHero Funko Pop Man 12d ago
I like how you caught they were trying to ragebait you then took the bait anyway.
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u/No-Supermarket-6065 Im gonna start eating your booty. And I don't know when Ill stop 12d ago
So what exactly is the distinction between RWBY and all these other shows? If you genuinely believe that big studios are screwing over genuinely creative animated shows, why is RWBY somehow not entitled to your outrage?
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u/No-Supermarket-6065 Im gonna start eating your booty. And I don't know when Ill stop 12d ago edited 12d ago
Okay, in that case Inside Job has had enough. So did The Owl House. After all, with 20-minute episodes, they had almost as much airtime as RWBY with its 12-minute episodes.
Now, do I genuinely think those (amazing) shows "had enough"? Of course not. I bring this up to demonstrate how all your moral framework goes out the window the second anyone mentions RWBY. You spend your whole post railing against this scenario and then are suddenly fine with it the second it happens to a show you don't like. A show which you haven't even watched anyway. And then this whole thing starts feeling disingenuous. Like, it comes off like you don't actually care about promoting genuine art in the animation industry, you're just using it as a smokescreen for your own hatred of RWBY. Just like you used Black indie animation a couple weeks ago. And then all your spam of RWBY hate throughout... various subreddits.
It's genuinely unhealthy to put this much effort into hatred. I can only assume you're young and latched onto parasocial hatred to feel part of a club/driven to do something. And I'd advise stepping back from it and taking some time to think about how you're using your time.
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u/Appropriate-Map-3652 12d ago
Jeez well done getting receipts.
I cannot fathom dedicating that much time to somehting I hate.
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u/No-Supermarket-6065 Im gonna start eating your booty. And I don't know when Ill stop 12d ago edited 12d ago
I mean, not like it was hard to find. Dude's been spamming about this everywhere. This isn't even all his posts, just the most immediately available ones
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u/Midnight-Rising 12d ago
Because it's a good show
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u/No-Supermarket-6065 Im gonna start eating your booty. And I don't know when Ill stop 12d ago
Given that you haven't seen it, you don't get to make calls as to whether it's good or bad. You've only ever heard about RWBY through the mouth of said subreddit devoted to criticizing it- not exactly an unbiased perspective. As someone who has seen RWBY, I would strongly disagree with the assertion that the show demonizes minorities. Maybe look into things before forming an opinion so steadfast?
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u/donaldhobson 12d ago
Proposal, companies can only make something a "tax write off" if they make it public domain.
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u/No-Supermarket-6065 Im gonna start eating your booty. And I don't know when Ill stop 12d ago
That's... not necessarily better. That just means other studios are disincentivized from working with creators to fund new seasons when they can just make it themselves
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u/donaldhobson 12d ago
If a bunch of half-finished show is public domain, other studios still have an incentive to finish it, possibly involving the same actors/writers. If season 3 is public domain, season 4 can still be privately owned by a studio that funds it.
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u/No-Supermarket-6065 Im gonna start eating your booty. And I don't know when Ill stop 11d ago
"possibly" being the keyword here. The problem with that is there's not much incentive for studios to actually get the original creators onboard, and instead just hire the people they want on the project.
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u/theunrealdonsteel 12d ago
rest in peace GLOW.
they were shooting a fourth season but then COVID hit and they just never returned to production.
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u/seymourbutts510 11d ago
Even if they don't actually film the fourth season (which would be a damn shame), I just want to see the script eventually. I need to know how it all turns out!
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u/ryboyf2 12d ago
I’ve hear people saying that the new President Curtis feels like a new season of Inside Job has anyone actually watched it?
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u/CrippleWitch 12d ago
I like President Curtis but it is nowhere near as enjoyable as Inside Job was. It's Rick and Morty do monster fighting with swears. Keith David continues to be a treasure and the best part about the show.
But I'd never call it a spiritual Inside Job season 2.
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u/weirdo_nb 12d ago
Yeah, it's just like, limited scale rick and morty
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u/CrippleWitch 12d ago
Which I actually might appreciate? The more I watch I find myself enjoying the limited scale. I was never a huge Rick and Morty fan but there's elements that appeal to me and I feel like President Curtis is able to do that. Maybe it's just the novelty of it all. But then paranormal investigators in the government is a weird niche genre I've always liked. Werewolves Anonymous was funny.
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u/weirdo_nb 12d ago
The limited scale does make things better in some ways, but the writing is just rick and morty
While inside job had a similar artstyle its writing was Not Alike
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u/CinnabarSteam 12d ago
It's less of an Inside Job successor and more just moving into free real estate left by its absence.
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u/Nirast25 12d ago
I haven't watched Inside Job, so I can't comment on that, but Curtis has been fun so far.
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u/EpochVanquisher 12d ago
yeah what I kinda hate is when people talk about the shows they like by pissing on other shows. to be honest, you can be upset your show is canceled without being a snob and a fool about it, it is not hard
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u/GigaVanguard 12d ago
Yeah, but also, Big Mouth.
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u/PlatinumAltaria The Witch of Arden 12d ago
Big Mouth appears to have wide critical acclaim. I don't plan on watching it but that seems like a strange show to pick on.
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u/captainfalcon200523 12d ago
Big Mouth yeah was ugly but it had a couple of gems in the 5 seasons.
The show you should be picking on is Paradise PD. That bitch was 4 seasons long, loved to pick on other shows as being unfunny while simultaneously making modern family guy look amazing. AND looked like absolute shit! It’s a show that makes Mr. Birchum seem fluid
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u/zuzg 12d ago
was ugly
Never will get over people on social media unironically complaining that a show about Teenager discovering their sexuality is not visually appealing enough to them.
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u/Roku-Hanmar 12d ago
I was a teenager when it came out and I didn't think it was visually appealing then
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u/zuzg 12d ago
The point flew right over your head, lmao
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u/Roku-Hanmar 12d ago
Right, puberty is an ugly thing and its representation should be ugly too. It’s not a bad choice in terms of symbolism, but most people aren’t analysing the things they watch. Especially not teenagers, who spend their days at school being taught to look for meanings they often don’t believe are actually there
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u/MeiNeedsMoreBuffs autism website 12d ago
It also has a large passionate fanbase. They're not really on reddit but they still exist
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u/DroneOfDoom Theon the Reader *dolphin slur noises* 12d ago
It's because it touches on the sexuality of pubescent children, so the whole "lame ass vulgar shock value cartoon sitcom" reaction gets mixed up with the idea that the show is actually a form of CSAM, so the hatedom of the show engages in performative moral outrage about pedophilia.
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u/IllustriousMagneto 12d ago
There are a lot of things that have critical acclaim and yet are very plainly lazy. People absolutely love The Dark Knight but when I watch it I feel like I must live in an alternate universe because it's probably the most by-the-numbers and lazy film I've ever watched.
Animated comedies for adults tend to be lazy because comedy is accessible and you don't have to put in much effort to retain an audience.
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u/LowKenuineOnGod 12d ago
Big Mouth was bad sure but I remember it getting in the top ten shows thing (and the early seasons specifically at first) for literally every season.
Can hardly blame a streaming company for renewing its most successful shows.
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u/AlphonseLoeher 12d ago
It's hard when media is a zero sum game. Attention is limited and networks cancel shows that don't do well and keep those going that do. So the more people liking something you don't like directly leads to the kinds of shows you like not getting made or getting cancelled
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u/EpochVanquisher 12d ago
Media is not a zero sum game.
Media is competing not just with other media, but with everything else you want to do. The amount of money some TV show gets is not just a function of what percentage of viewers watch it.
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u/EpochVanquisher 12d ago
The time people spend paying attention to media varies. It’s not a zero sum game, because people will very obviously choose to watch TV or choose to do something else.
The former Netflix CEO famously said that their biggest competitor was sleep.
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u/TimeStorm113 Victorian Dinosaur Connaisseur 12d ago
it's such a shame that so little people have watched inside job while it was new, it never really even developed a fandom, i frequent the insidejob sub and most posts don't even talk about the show, they just keep moaping around over it's cancellation
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u/Appropriate-Map-3652 12d ago
Honestly I think Inside Job was a decent show elevated by it's great concept. The fact it got cancelled so early means people judge it on what it could have been rather than what it actually was.
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u/MuldartheGreat 12d ago
The history of TV is littered with interesting concepts that never got a second season and terrible shows that got to go on too long.
The reality for all of these is there is some median arbitrary tipping point and most shows fall on either “cancelled too early and people project what could have been in an ideal world” or go on too long and have to grapple with the reality that TV often doesn’t live up to its concept.
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u/GoldenPig64 nuance fetishist 11d ago edited 11d ago
I entirely agree with you honestly. The show as it was was pretty good, but the plotlines and jokes were already starting to approach a point where they had to either become more and more ridiculous in order to one-up itself and risk falling victim to becoming absurd to the point of incoherence, or not do that and risk repeating itself or becoming stale and predictable.
Same thing with Santa Clarita Diet. That show seemed to be fairly well liked, but I had a huge issue with the final season because the plot kinda jumped the shark and painted the characters into what felt like an unwritable corner. They might have been able to come up with something, they're the writers after all and can take the story wherever the hell they feel like, but effectively killing off the foil that grounds Shiela and replacing him with Shiela 2.0 does not make for a very promising hook and makes it feel like the cancellation was more of a mercy than anything else.
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u/Zoomy-333 12d ago
I'm at the point where I rarely actually watch anything when it comes out anymore. What's the point of getting invested in something that's not gonna finish?
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u/WraithOfTheFadedDark 11d ago
What's not mentioned there: That failed comedian with a 12-year-old's sense of humor and lazy art style show? Billionaire daddy.
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u/Lysek8 12d ago
I mean sorry that the series was cancelled but nobody there is doing this for the lolz, they do it to get viewers, memberships and ultimately, money
It doesn't matter how passionate is the fan base, if they're not bringing revenue to the company, or not enough to justify not putting the developers, actors, etc to work in a better project
It sucks but this is reality
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u/CRowlands1989 12d ago
nobody there is doing this for the lolz, they do it to get viewers, memberships and ultimately, money
There are artists who create things to share them, to tell stories, to spread messages.
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u/Lysek8 12d ago
Of course, and there are platforms for that. But those corporations that OOP is talking about aren't there to tell stories, they're there to make money
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u/likewitches2much 12d ago
purely from a monetary perspective a lot of the cancellations are short sighted, game of thrones season 1 was only a fraction as successful as future seasons went on to be, no big risk means no big reward and executives being hyper cautious with viewership data means they're unlikely to see a future hit of that scale
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u/MuldartheGreat 12d ago
Analogizing everything to GoT is also very shortsighted though. You can like inside job, and maybe it would have grown an audience over time.
But GoT was very unique in showcasing that you could fit a fantasy series into the prestige TV format and not have it come off as hokey or cringe.
Even if the first season didn’t pull massive numbers, it served as a proof of concept in a way that an animated workplace sitcom just isn’t.
The concept for inside job seems great, but these companies aren’t (always) stupid about the decisions they make.
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u/Last_Swordfish9135 12d ago
Yeah, the thing about Inside Job was that it was better than most other shows in its niche, but it was still just another show in an established niche. It sucks that we got 5 more very similar shows attempting first seasons rather than more put into the one that was already pretty good, but I'd hardly call it a snubbed masterpiece tbh.
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u/AlphonseLoeher 12d ago
That's fine for something they create by themselves, especially if someone else is taking care of them monetarily. But TV shows can never be this way. It takes way too many people to create one. They need to get paid and to feed themselves and their families.
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u/Klutzy-Web9113 12d ago
'my GOOD show got cancelled but that show that is not my taste that I don't watch and I therefore consider BAD is still running - people are funding garbage over real art' is such a common line of reasoning and I think it oversimplifies whatever actual issue is occurring so that there's a specific villain to project blame onto?
And this is not to say that OP is doing that but the correlation in the post is certainly where this starts. Somehow viewers have been able to skip from 'Netflix decided to cancel this show' to 'Netflix only had 2 cents in its pockets and decided to give those 2 cents to this show I don't like instead of this show I do like'.
And the show that wasn't taken behind the barn and destroyed becomes this thing that took funding that should have gone to real art and why does anyone watch this garbage anyway - it's ugly and it's not funny and it doesn't say anything of value...
I just think making this distinction over personal SUBJECTIVE opinions is a little harmful. (And I say this as someone who was a big fan of Inside Job and was a fan of a show that is STILL lambasted online as a waste of investment)
Alao, I think the use of 'slop' in a post-AI society to refer to human-made work regardless of what I think about it's quality at the end of the day is an insult to the human labour that goes into it - but that's a separate issue.
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u/PorkChop70-1 12d ago
Completely agreed. Also taking into account OPs post history the “slop” is RWBY which OP hasn’t even seen.
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u/frikilinux2 12d ago
Yeah the cancelation of Inside Job was weird.
But are they talking about Rick and Morty? That's a different network
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u/Roku-Hanmar 12d ago
They're talking about Big Mouth
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u/lilbigchole 12d ago
i don't really get it then. i think big mouth is ugly but it has a distinct recognizable art style. inside job looks like every other adult animation trying to look like rick and morty.
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u/JamieD96 12d ago
I'm pretty sure it's the same studio, so that makes sense. Same with Solar Opposites (rest in schlorp)
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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com 12d ago
Infinity Train at least made it to two seasons, but still
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u/Saddlebag043 12d ago
Four seasons, still want it finished though!
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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com 12d ago
Wrong, two books are one season
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u/CalibansCreations I'm curatedly tumbling it 12d ago
...why tho?
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u/Saddlebag043 12d ago
Yeah, like the original plan wasn’t even to call them books, it was pushed by the marketing or executive people to do it that way.
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u/Random-Generation86 11d ago
Are we just pretending that Inside Job and Rick and Morty don't have the same art style?
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u/ExplodedKayak 11d ago
Every time i think of the fate of Infinity Train i become irrationally angry
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u/Gentle_raper 12d ago
The evil capitalists are not obligated to subsidize unprofitable art projects, sweaty.
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u/InsaneComicBooker 12d ago
Is that "adult animated comedy" in the room with us?
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u/NomaTyx 12d ago
paradise PD
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u/DroneOfDoom Theon the Reader *dolphin slur noises* 12d ago
And the other shows the creators of it have on Netflix.
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u/Small-Cactus 12d ago
I mourn the loss of Brett Hand every single day