During the last flight I took, according to the screen in front of my seat, the outside temperature reached -50 to -60 degrees. Since battery efficiency declines in cold weather, wouldn’t that further increase the problems involved in electric power for passenger planes?

Nah, nah. Dirigibles.

Another thing to consider is the consumption of fuel. Because a jet engine burns jet fuel, it loses that 160,000 kg over the course of a flight, effectively becoming more efficient as it flies. The weight of batteries never leaves the plane.

I look forward to the book, or lawsuit filing, that will be written about this next-level bullshit Hollywood Accounting.

Ahhh. You dug deeper than my quick surname origin search.  Joke just falls apart now, lol.

More like the dude either decided/was tricked into acquiring a company with a shit load of debt and is now stripping the copper wire to desperately pay it back other wise he doesn't get his 9 figure bonus.

Well, Zaslav IS Russian. Like similar famous Russians, he’s just randomly raining down destruction on the livelihoods of the creators and actors of these shows, for reasons known only to him. I’m personally hoping for a coup to bring an end to his reign...

How soon before we hear the news that James Gunn has left as creative head of DCEU because Zaslav decreed that no DC movie cost more than $25M? Before Xmas? Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me if WBD is actively looking for a buyer or buyers for all of DC. (Amazon? Sony? The Asylum?)

Bingo! 

Yeah, regardless of the general public’s current feelings, Westworld was a BIG DEAL when it debuted. This is very surprising and disturbing.

“Zaslav, who seems to actively hate movies and TV shows”

Who do you think is responsible for turning Discovery into lowest-common denominator reality trash?

I’ll give ya ONE guess...

Yeah, pulling an OG HBO show like Westworld makes me worry that HBO proper is going to get messed with. There’s plenty of shows and original movies that were great but never popular (like Enlightened or Rome) that could just go poof. I don’t even know if HBO still puts out physical media for all of its shows anymore…

Disclaimer before I make the following statement: I am not American and therefore not weirdly hand-wringy about a certain word I am about to use

As evidently the only person on earth who really enjoyed The Nevers, I’m pretty disappointed, but I am slightly heartened that there’s at least a chance it will get to be seen *somewhere*.

Is this a case of “saving the company” or more of a “cut ALL the expenses so I can claim to have increased profits for a massive bonus before I jump ship on the drained husk of the once thriving company” situation?

I get cancelling shows if they’re not pulling in the numbers but why on Earth would you remove a service original entirely? Is it really taking up that much bandwidth that might otherwise be used for more stupid fucking reality TV?

I’m not paying for HBO if they are going to cut so many shows I enjoyed. Just try turning a premier cinamatic outlet into whatever the Discovery Channel is and watch it fail.

Jeez, is HBO gonna start charging for blue check marks now?

The guy running HBO sure does seem to suck.