Reposting an old post I made that is more relevant now than ever
Produced by just means "paid for by," anyway.
So there's a chance it can still suck if Amazon pays the wrong people to make it.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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Even if they pay the right people, it may still suck if they try to influence the creative process at all. Over all, I am not optimistic.
The showrunner worked on all three of the TV series so as long as he doesn’t try something like rebooting SGU it might be good.
But if it starts with a drastically older Robert Carlyle defrosting I’m only giving it two episodes.
The one actor who I most want to reprise their role is Michael Welch as Jack
holy shit. so much this
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So there’s a chance it can still suck if Amazon pays the wrong people to make it.
Rings of Power.
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Produced by just means “paid for by,” anyway.
The problem is when they abruptly cut off funding and sit on the IP indefinitely.
That's what they did to James Bond .
I hate Amazon as much as is humanly possible, thats not what is happening, though.
Denis villaneuve is directing the movie and has stated that he is isnt looking for a new james bond until dune 3 is finished.
Also, fwiw, barb sat on the IP for no good reason. She was probably looking for a buyer, because a new Bond movie should have happened 2.5ish years ago.
Barbara no longer controls the creative IP.
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I was fine paying for Amazon to make the highest quality stuff that I wanted to see, like the Expanse, Invincible, the fucking Boys etc as I do believe I can't bemoan the lack of quality programming if I'm not helping foster it.
But then they included ads in the standard package and I jumped back into the high seas. Fuck that noise.
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I want to believe, I really do, but basically every “new version of thing I loved from childhood” has been profoundly disappointing.
My guess: [bad guy] comes back because [good guy] is actually bad guy now, in a complete reversal of their entire character growth arc, and [bad thing that we took care of in the last show] is back because [history erasing lazy writing so they can just tell the same story again].
I see you have also seen [show/movie brought back after a long gap]!
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Amazon has financed the Expanse. That's it. The evil fuckers have zero credit to the quality of the TV adaptation. It was two seasons at SyFy - then, sadly but unsurprisingly, SyFy was unable to turn it into a source of revenue (Hi Firefly :( ) and amazon financed it because the shitbucket in chief at amazon is an Expanse fan.
SyFy was unable to turn it into a source of revenue
I feel like Amazon totally missed the boat on this too.
Like, where was the merch? why didn't they capitalize on the popularity of it? where were the T-shirts, the cosplay outfits, the toys, the model kits? you know the Expanse fanbase would buy model kits.
They have a fucking online retail store, which they control the advertising on, plus every possible contact in the manufacturing industry they could possibly need. Promoting merch for the series would've been so fucking easy, and producing it would've cost them next to nothing compared to the show production.
Well - I don't spend time on what amazon may or may not have missed, that business is as evil as a corporation can get, and the asshole owner can fuck right off to hell. He doesn't suddenly become a good person just because he saved one TV show that I liked, and for entirely selfish reasons.
He doesn't suddenly become a good person just because he saved one TV show that I liked
Oh no, certainly not.
My point is, it should've been super easy for them to further capitalize on this IP, but they did nothing instead.
Yeah, I wasn't disputing that point, just using the opportunity to bash amazon ;)
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I was trying to think of a way to shoehorn in my opinion on Wheel of Time, but fuck it, I'll just say it.
Wheel of Time sucked. They fucked it up badly.
I went in thinking "ok, fan fiction, alternate take on the universe", and it was an ok show with some surprisingly great parts. Then the season two plot was just a turtle fucking a snail, and I was done.
Edit: to be clear, it was slow motion WTF, why is this nothing happening?
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Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, The Witcher, The wheel of Time, have all been huge nerd properties. They were each in their own way, fantastic, and each of them destroyed by someone who either didnt understand them, or wanted to turn them into something else.
I fear the very same thing is about to befall one more 90s/00s nerd show. God knows what theyre about to do to Buffy, but I fear for that one as well.
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Just be longer than 10 episodes
i'll take 10 episodes of gold over 1000 episodes of shit.
But that's not what we're getting. Lot's of series either are or have become 10 epusides of over-bloated visual spectical with bad writing desperately trying to be a 10 hour movie.
I will take 20 episodes of low budget gold over 10 episodes of shiny poop.
Ok? Good thing a full season is only ~20? And the benefit of a full season is the character development, which is where the gold comes from, not some 10 episode story you forget about next week.
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But it's Bezos! I'm not giving Bezos any more money.
The new Critical Role cartoon series is out as well, and despite being a fan, I ain't watching that because it's on Prime. (I'm also not pirating it btw, I'll keep hoping that it'll eventually get released on BluRay or something)
Yarr.
Y'arr
(A bit like y'all, it means all the arrs. Not to be confused with Yar, that sleeps with the Tar.)
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Plenty of Amazon shows are also shit. Just like how Netflix and all the others have a mix of good shows and bad shows.
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Carnival Row wasn't too bad either IMO
How about judging the series after it came out instead of judging a book by its cover? Even if the chances of it being good are slim, it still has a chance. And it would be awful to ignore an amazing series based on assumptions.
I think the joke is more like judging the book by its publisher than by its cover. I would be hyped if all we saw was the cover, but that's probably also missing the point of giving the show a chance to either excite or disappoint.
It’s not about the book, it’s the profits will go to evil villains and no one needs to see this so bad that it’s worth it.
They say capitalism can be managed by customers controlling their spending but people regularly put their own convenience above everyone else and so that never happens. Nestle doesn’t have to be good because people will still buy their garbage even if they printed “we stole the water to make this” right on the label.
It’s just a TV show. If you can’t live without it then you’re completely broken.
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The money comes from somewhere shitty always with these things. All you can do is hope they stay out of it as much as possible and let the artists do their thing
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I closed that gate in 2004.
Still waiting for others to see it, and stop falling for it.
The sweeter the juice, the more dangerous the pitcher plant.
Someone once pointed out that in this meme, the gate controller is shouting commands to himself. Now I can't unsee it, and neither should you.
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I'm cautiously optimistic if for no other reason than some of the original peeps are the ones creating it.
Fallout was fucking awesome. If you’re into Fallout that is, which I am.
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I feel like the only really good Bethesda game besides Skyrim that I've played is Dishonored, and coincidentally that's the one developer/studio that Bethesda decided to close down
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Yarrr, I might take a gander
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