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Aug. 9th, 2017 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. The only drawback of binging the Great British Baking Show is ...I start to crave the things they are baking or to bake myself...which isn't something I can do at all for various reasons. But I keep having fantasies of doing gluten free, grain free versions of all the items. LOL!
2. This youtube video about Sense8 cheered me up considerably, thanks to shapinglight for the link.
3. Ava Duvernay is bringing Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Dawn to the small screen
“[A]fter war has culminated in a nuclear apocalypse and the near extermination of the human race, the survivors are rescued by an alien species and kept in suspended animation on an Earth-like spaceship. Lilith Iyapo, a black woman, is the first to be awakened and is chosen to lead her people into an uncertain future. She is faced with a choice: adapt or die. But, what good is survival if it comes at the cost of humanity?”
4. The Best Tweet on Our Impending Doom
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5. Disney ends Netflix Deal in 2019 in order to start its own streaming service
Disney CEO Bob Iger just announced that the media giant will be ending its deal with Netflix, pulling its programming from the streaming platform when their deal comes to a conclusion in 2019. The ultimate goal is to host the shows and movies on Disney’s own streaming service, which will launch around the same time. It’s incredibly disappointing news that could potentially pose some small upside—and make no mistake, the upside is small.
Netflix not only loses out on Disney features like Moana, Lilo & Stitch, The Emperor’s New Groove, and more direct Disney properties, but will likely also lose its Star Wars offerings (e.g., Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). But the biggest potential loss of all is Netflix’s current lineup of Marvel shows: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher. Remember: Disney owns both Lucasfilm and Marvel. There aren’t exactly too many details out yet about the deal’s end, but it would be safe to guess that Disney wants all those major, award-winning properties on their own streaming platform.
There’s an interesting conversation that’s popping up as well regarding the proliferation of streaming services. For many people who are trying to cut off their dependence on cable television (either as a cost-cutting measure or otherwise), the competing streaming services represent a potential higher overall cost. After all, Netflix isn’t quite the one-stop-shop anymore for streaming movies or shows. But one company having less of a monopoly is supposed to be a good thing, right? We’ll see, I guess.
I think it may backfire on Disney. Because I can't afford to be on that many streaming services. Nor do I need to be. And Disney isn't broad enough for me. I'm only really watching the Marvel series from Disney.
2. This youtube video about Sense8 cheered me up considerably, thanks to shapinglight for the link.
3. Ava Duvernay is bringing Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Dawn to the small screen
“[A]fter war has culminated in a nuclear apocalypse and the near extermination of the human race, the survivors are rescued by an alien species and kept in suspended animation on an Earth-like spaceship. Lilith Iyapo, a black woman, is the first to be awakened and is chosen to lead her people into an uncertain future. She is faced with a choice: adapt or die. But, what good is survival if it comes at the cost of humanity?”
4. The Best Tweet on Our Impending Doom
No comment.
5. Disney ends Netflix Deal in 2019 in order to start its own streaming service
Disney CEO Bob Iger just announced that the media giant will be ending its deal with Netflix, pulling its programming from the streaming platform when their deal comes to a conclusion in 2019. The ultimate goal is to host the shows and movies on Disney’s own streaming service, which will launch around the same time. It’s incredibly disappointing news that could potentially pose some small upside—and make no mistake, the upside is small.
Netflix not only loses out on Disney features like Moana, Lilo & Stitch, The Emperor’s New Groove, and more direct Disney properties, but will likely also lose its Star Wars offerings (e.g., Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). But the biggest potential loss of all is Netflix’s current lineup of Marvel shows: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher. Remember: Disney owns both Lucasfilm and Marvel. There aren’t exactly too many details out yet about the deal’s end, but it would be safe to guess that Disney wants all those major, award-winning properties on their own streaming platform.
There’s an interesting conversation that’s popping up as well regarding the proliferation of streaming services. For many people who are trying to cut off their dependence on cable television (either as a cost-cutting measure or otherwise), the competing streaming services represent a potential higher overall cost. After all, Netflix isn’t quite the one-stop-shop anymore for streaming movies or shows. But one company having less of a monopoly is supposed to be a good thing, right? We’ll see, I guess.
I think it may backfire on Disney. Because I can't afford to be on that many streaming services. Nor do I need to be. And Disney isn't broad enough for me. I'm only really watching the Marvel series from Disney.
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Date: 2017-08-10 10:20 am (UTC)I kind of hope it does backfire. There are too many of them now. Hard to keep up.
I find I don't care about the Marvel series any more. Jessica Jones was the only one I really liked - and even then not enough to rewatch it.
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Date: 2017-08-10 12:23 pm (UTC).I kind of hope it does backfire. There are too many of them now. Hard to keep up.
I agree. I was thinking much the same thing last night. It's gotten so it's kind of hard to care about any of them. Not sure how it is over there? But over here -- we have the equivalent of 1000 television channels, and that doesn't include streaming, and web series. With over 450 scripted television series (not including news, talk shows, reality shows, live musical events, documentaries). In regards to streaming? I think we have at least twenty streaming services now...possibly more, because every network channel thinks it should have its own personal subscription service.
It's hard to find or keep track of most of them. Unless something really entertains me or I'm discussing it with someone, I tend to forget about it.
Jessica Jones was the only one I really liked - and even then not enough to rewatch it.
Feel much the same way. While I did enjoy Daredevil a great deal as well, I didn't enjoy it enough to either re-watch it or be upset if it didn't continue. (One of their mistakes is the extremely long lag-time between seasons. Hard to sustain interest when there's more than a year between seasons.) But the other reason for my ambivalence is...they are like so much else that is currently on, that's it hard to differentiate or care.
Sense8 on the other hand, I was upset about - very glad it gets at least a two hour wrap up. Although I think it deserved a third season more than the Marvel series did. It was at least different and innovative -- it stood out from the pack.
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Date: 2017-08-10 03:32 pm (UTC)I'm guessing that what will happen is they will start to specialise more, to capture the majority of a particular genre like sci-fi or historical or shows about leaving people on an island or whatever. If that happens we will actually start to see a broader range within each niche genre, to provide variety and widen the net for that market. So the number of subscription services any individual wants to belong to should drop while quality within each genre should improve. Not sure how long it will take for this change to come through though, so we could have an expensive few years ahead if we want to watch everything in our particular genre.
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Date: 2017-08-10 09:37 pm (UTC)The larger point though is quite true. I'm already unwilling to buy content from Amazon or other sources because we already pay for Netflix DVDs and streaming plus cable. That's a huge bill already. A la carte programming works well if you don't have more than 10 things you want to watch in any month. But that adds up too. A group account can be feasible, but one person would need to have a lot of both money and time.