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The only thing Tuca had in common with BoJack is the animation. Otherwise, they don’t really have much in common. Bojack at its core is a comedy/satire of celebrity culture and Hollywood and thats something average joe/public will better watch and understand than Tuca, which was a more esoteric, raunchier, and adult

Yeah, the whole situation is weird. I’m not sure how they work on CC. 

I mean, Raphael Bob-Waksberg has always said that they’d keep making Bojack for as long as Netflix let them, so its not like this cancellation interrupts some grand plan they had mapped out. This was always gonna happen at some point, i just hope they can stick the landing. Narrative series shouldn’t go on forever.

I think the issue with Tuca and Bertie wasn’t so much the weirdness as it was being so closely related to BoJack in the first place. It’s hard to see much of an audience going for Tuca & Bertie that wasn’t already watching BoJack - you’re almost inherently working with a subset of a subset of the Netflix subscriber

This is one of those cases where ending the show does make sense, but it also makes me wonder even more what Netflix’s future for original programming is going to be. They are increasingly cookie cutter and are drowning in red ink.

Tuca and Bertie was just not as accessible to the average joe/public as Bojack is. T&C was a good show but it was too esoteric and weird for average joe/public to take, and Netflix, under pressure from its shareholders to perform, saw the low numbers/profitability and axed it before giving it a chance.

How are the those Bojack re-runs? They must be chopped up to hell to fit in commercials and such.

Six is considered a ‘magic number’ in the TV business. Usually, after the 6th year its time to renegotiate contracts. The actors and production people expect a big raise, the networks want to keep spending down‘til they’ve amortized the up-front costs of producing the series in the first place. it boils down to a

Netflix’s programming decisions are pretty much run by algorithm. I think that kind of dispassionate number crunching ended T&B because it wasn't an instant success. It was a little too weird for a lot of Netflix payers (payers, not watchers).

I think this is because Netflix doesn’t own all the rights to the show. It was developed through Michael Eisner’s Tornante production company. That’s why they were able to syndicate BoJack on Comedy Central. 

Someone on Twitter reminded everyone that Tuca and Bojack’s animators all unionized several months ago. Maybe related??

I wondered what was up when they killed Tuca & Bertie. It’s so closely related to Bojack, a Netflix flagship, that it should have been born with enough clout to get an automatic second season. Now it all makes more sense. The two shows were almost certainly cancelled together, and we’re just now catching up.

But I thought that, since the show is a Tornante production and not produced by Netflix, they could market it somewhere else if they wanted to? Was the unionization a factor? Maybe they just thought about it after Netflix cancelled they made a decision that they told the story they wanted? I have to imagine someplace

This is excellent

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This is one of the few games from my teenage years where I can still remember, note for note, the opening theme.

I reached New Parm last night. More than anything else, I’m impressed by the scripting and storywriting. I was laughing out loud! I know describing why something is funny kills the humor a bit, but bear with me.

This. 100% this! I owned Grandia II on the Dreamcast and actually preferred it to Skies of Arcadia (I’m a heretic, I know). The battle system is one of my favorite in any RPG, and I just love the color palette. Every location feels bright, distinct, and the polygons, while cruder by today’s standards, are the right

The “sense of wonder” is actually one of the best ways to describe Grandia. Thanks for the great read. It’s definitely worth its price.

Top-six Melee player Juan Debiedma, aka Hungrybox, told me that “It’s a way to perform very difficult inputs with more precision, with the downside of having to learn how to play the game all over again.”

How I envision the melee tournament community in another 12 years: