The timing of the strike has nothing to do with what I’m saying. My point is Reilly considers himself an activist and Virgo tries to leverage an anticapitalist message; he’s getting paid by the worst post-capitalist offender and going after a fellow artist for basically saying “I hope there can be a resolution to this…

Feels a lot like people are trying to find the least generous reading of a nonstatement.

For anyone out there wondering if they’re biased, here you go. If you can read a statement that says “I can understand the positions of both parties in a conflict” and take it to mean “I am siding with the party that you are against” then the test is positive and you are indeed biased.

Shazam is out. The second movie is terrible and then Levi has gained some baggage and has made a lot of claims, but Gunn and Savran have zero reason to keep him. Plus all of the child actors for his family will have become adults, which is gonna get awkward.

“We’re io9 so we focus on sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and genre films. Neither of which applies to Sound of Freedom or Oppenheimer.”

Throughout this this entire thread you’re still ignoring the fact that nearly 2/3 of the people who started watching the show thought it was so bad they couldn’t go on. I’m in the third who finished and thought it was so awful I hate-watched until the end just so I could mock it with everyone else on the internet. Are…

Has Amazon said The Boys isn’t successful? Because they seem to be pretty complimentary and enthusiastic about that one. Did I say The Boys wasn’t successful?

Almost no layoffs have come from Prime Video, however, or content creation. Many of them have been related to gaming and Twitch streaming as well as the marketing positions related to them along with several related to the end of Book Depository. Amazon is also still actively hiring in several areas including Prime…

9 million who finished the entire series is significantly higher than people finishing other series - not just on Amazon, but everywhere. According to Parrot Analytics Rings of Power was 16.7 times more in demand than the average TV show in the US.

If you spend a half a billion dollars on eight episodes, and figuratively no one watches the last four, then you’ve wasted a quarter of a billion dollars. What is the point of spending millions on something no one* watches?

And if that’s true, it strongly incentivizes them to claim success for the first one no matter what. If the season had only been finished by one guy, they’d be claiming that Gary from Fort Wayne was 100% of the target demo and they saw virtually unprecedented growth potential.

It’s the entertainment equivalent of my grandma telling me I’m handsome.

The io9 version of the story, linking to the Hollywood Reporter, said the Day 1 global audience was 25 million viewers. That means - at minimum - 9.25 million people watched the full series.

As far as I know they paid for 5 seasons, so they’re making them whether they’re good or shitty.

The Elrond/Durin relationship was a high point for me.  The rock breaking contest where you know Elrond is a half elf that can go all year if he needs to but has to let Durin win is friggen great.

Going into it I knew it would basically be Tolkien fanfic but I was hoping it would at least not be boring Tolkien fanfic.

I made it halfway through the first episode and I was struggling to pay attention. I paused it and watched something else. I realized a few days later that I really didn’t care enough to go back, even if it meant on missing out on a little pop culture. 

Alys wasn’t wearing a skirt... ... ...it’s a tunic.

Pointing to FF7 as the start of that even in video games is odd. 

Lmao I feel like blaming FF7 for the sexualization of skirts is a bit of a massive reach considering as the miniskirt was sexualized decades before FF7 was even conceived of.