Hinting That More Seasons Could Come

The Television Academy’s criteria for limited series state: “The program must tell a complete, non-recurring story and not have an ongoing storyline or main characters in subsequent seasons.”

Because it doesn’t qualify as a miniseries.

Although the article then goes on to say that “Echo” (and similar) did qualify as a miniseries.

Sounds like Disney and the awards need to just clarify things.

ALL THAT BEING SAID, of course we’re getting more Agatha, it’ll just have a different title.

Also Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003).

The delistings are yet another example of Netflix struggling to find its footing in gaming.

I don’t think “gaming” is related at all here, but I admit I only watched Bandersnatch and Kimmy Schmidt.

I saw this as an attempt at Choose-Your-Own-Adventure films. The book form is still reading, not suddenly a game. Similarly the film form is still watching, not a game.

As for the actual content, I think Bandersnatch worked really well. I think Kimmy Schmidt did not. I’m guessing most people just want to zone out and watch.

It’s my go to when I say something stupid and someone calls me on it. I double down on the stupidity.

The mushrooms in the show look cartoony (in a good way) so that’s crazy that they’re real…

We literally grew some real mushrooms and painted the blood dots on them.

Ah, well that explains the look.

Sliders!

My favorite forgotten 90s show.

Loki season 1 is the best, but after that I put WandaVision and then probably Agatha All Along. So I still think this is the best in a while.

(I like Loki season 2 but it shifts things heavily and while it’s a solid ending to Loki’s story that’s all it has and that leaves a lot of meh episodes between the start and end of the season.)

Season 1 was surprisingly good, I suppose adding a bunch of new characters gives you new characters to kill off. (Not that they killed everyone off in season 1, but some of them didn’t make it.)

So I’ve watched all the Marvel stuff, films & TV, and this is the best thing they’ve put out in a long time.

I highly suggest watching WandaVision first as Agatha All Along could be considered a season 2 to that show, but following different characters. Basically connected miniseries.

I do wonder how much the writers strike impacted this. There should have been a few month gap, and we might have just/are currently having it. Plus as we enter the holiday season things get pushed to next year.

As someone who watches basically everything, I actually missed Squid Game. It is worth catching up on? Does this trailer work?

Sure it isn’t a perfect comparison, but the idea is the same.

Comcast introduced the “Xfinity” branding in 2010. I still call refer to it as “Comcast”. Any conversation I have where an ISP comes up, the word “Comcast” is used. If someone says “Xfinity”, they often follow it up with “you know, Comcast”.

Now that’s a VERY clear brand change.

The name “X” is a VERY confusing brand change. It will likely be called Twitter forever. In fact at some point Musk will sell or give up on “X” and I guarantee within a year the new owner will change the name back to Twitter.

Because of the musicals? It had a few numbers but I didn’t feel like it dominated.

It’s only boring because it doesn’t really go anywhere.

I was intrigued with the first half of so, but the film does a flip near the end that just takes the film ultimately nowhere.

First, the obvious, WINDS!

Second, it’s clear HBO will continue to make Game of Thrones content for many years to come. While I would love for George to write it and HBO to eventually adapt it, I’m confident we’ll get it in one form or another someday.

The interconnected universe is here to stay.

This is a little bit of an odd decision.

I’m guessing this is coming off of the success of X-Men '97. Spider-Man appeared on that series in the past, so they can do a little crossover with that series.

However we’ve also got “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” coming out soon, which is set in yet another alternate universe. The original name of which was “Freshman Year” and I thought already preparing for a “Sophomore Year” season. (Which to me implies a planned 4 season minimum.)

Both of these shows follow Peter Parker, which leaves an obvious gap for Miles Morales or other Spider-people.

However I wouldn’t want to step on the toes of the Spider-verse films, for which we already have Spider-Man Noir in planning and plenty of Spider-Gwen rumors.

I like Spider-Man, but that’s a lot of spider stories.

So The Penguin is great, but this article is a lot of fluff and really just pointing out how stupid Warner Bros. Discovery is.

The strongest sign that The Penguin, the TV spinoff of 2022’s The Batman, would be a good show was when it was announced that the series would switch from Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service Max to become an HBO original series.

The decision was likely a combination of the generally confusing identity of Max to the public consumer and the desire to hitch The Penguin onto a brand name that has historically stood for being the peak of premium TV and that launched the Golden Age of modern television: HBO.

“Max” was a stupid branding decision. HBO is the long-standing name associated with quality. The show is high quality unrelated to the deck chairs the higher ups rearrange.

If “HBO” means quality, then what does “Max” mean?

He takes a long time and weirdly trails off while trying to make his point.

In short it sounds like he’s just talking about the toxicity of having a “team” and ignoring discussion/critiques of your “team”.

To use Pokemon, since it’s referenced in the article, but oddly without a good example. If you like Pokemon media, great.

If you argue that the games YOU grew up with are better than the NEW games, or that new Pokemon suck, you’re just being unnecessarily toxic.

Now if you want to have a discussion about Pokemon games, addition if running shoes helped speed the game up, forced tutorials slowed the game down, the addition of special Pokemon to replace HMs gives more team variety, but at the cost of not having as strong of a connection with your team. Conversations like that great for communities.

Now change the fandom from Pokemon to comic books to TV shows to films to politics.

The article also talks about raising individuals up like “deities”. If you like Stephen King, and he writes a new book, and it’s a bad book, you don’t have to love it. Similarly if you don’t like Stephen King, and he writes a new book, and it’s a good book, you don’t have to hate it. You can be a fan of specific work and dislike others. You’re not a hypocrite, it’s fine.

Looping back to politics specifically. If you liked Trump on The Apprentice, that’s fine. However you can’t just carry that forward for everything. You can’t, or rather shouldn’t, watch Trump on the Apprentice, decide “I like him” , and then like him in everything he does. You should look at policy, look at actions, have a discussion. Realize that your initial evaluation was based on a reality TV host. Even if you liked that, you can’t just assume everything after that you also like.

It’s not technically what you mean, but during the first Doctor Strange film he gets injured and teleports himself to a Hospital. I seem to recall he gives a diagnosis of himself to Christine Palmer while he is in his spirit form, since his body is dying.