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		<p>Dead Boy Detectives is going to get cancelled after one season no matter how good it is.These kinds of shows always seem to get canned. Calling it now but hoping I'll be proven wrong.</p>
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		<p>Not so fast, if you saw how amazing they were in the Doom Patrol story they had cameo that won them a spin-off show, then you would think there is a good chance it might be Netflix's next hit series.</p>
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		<p>I predict if any of them are any good at all (which is unlikely), they'll just cancel after the initial 2 season pickup so they don't have to pay the increased price.  I'll never forgive them for cancelling "Haters Back Off!"</p>
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		<p>The movies I might watch if they get good reviews, and they are stand-alone in most cases. The shows... Unless the reviews are fantastic, I'll wait to see if they get renewed before investing any time in them.</p>
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		<div id="comment_body_64002005"><p>Netflix has Googled themselves into a classic chicken and egg problem. I don't trust them not to cancel shows on cliffhangers, so I don't watch shows until I know that they'll run to completion, and I'm not alone, so new shows don't gain an audiences (because critical masses are waiting to ensure they don't just get canceled), so they end up being canceled.</p><p>And, much like Google, Netflix needs to go a long way to regain trust, because they've canceled shows they had renewed. You can't trust Netflix if they say a show is getting a second season until they release the second season, much like you can't trust Google when they say that they'll keep a service running.</p><p>Plus, it's cheaper this way: I don't need a Netflix subscription to not watch Netflix shows because I assume they'll be canceled before they end.</p></div>
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		<div id="comment_body_64003527"><p>so I don't watch shows until I know that they'll run to completion</p><p>Modern Serials do not have a completion. It's a fools game you're playing, denying yourself entertainment because of a concern that the story won't be finished while the people writing the stories do not finish them on purpose.</p><p>If you don't want to watch them, just don't. No need to make up logically insane excuses.</p></div>
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		<p>I am having trouble understanding how a space opera and the Vegas zombie movie Army of the Dead could possibly be a shared universe, that must be one hell of a storyboard.</p>
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		<p>The writers strike has been really hard on us all.</p>
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		<p>You mean the panademic. Everything went to crap.<nobr> <wbr></wbr></nobr>:(</p>
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		<p>To the chinese version.<br></br>The CG is a bit goofy at times, but the series are quite good.</p>
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		<div id="comment_body_64001997"><p>Reading comments about the Chinese version, I think the key to the Netflix version will be to make the motivations and actions of the characters more understandable to a Western audience. People have been complaining that some of what happens doesn't seem to make much sense, and in every case it's because they don't understand why a Chinese person might say or do something, or think a certain way.</p><p>Good luck to them.</p></div>
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		<div id="comment_body_64004185"><p>Sometimes watching that show I wondered where the chinese censure bureau was hiding. Especially in the historical events depicted.</p><p>When I read that Netflix was doing the 3-body, my thought was; why? Then I sighed and thought back to every other time someone thought a remake could improve on the first version, because that happens, right?</p></div>
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		<p>Anything's possible, but I think I'll pass.  I got just about all the existential downer about anime and machines taking over that I could stand from watching <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328832" title="imdb.com">The Animatrix</a> [imdb.com].</p>
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		<div id="comment_body_64003287"><p>The Terminator franchise just needs to be put to an abrupt end. It needs to be... <i>eliminated</i>.</p><p>T2 reused and exhausted the franchise's formula just about as far as it could go while still being a good movie. Everything starting with Rise of the Machines has been tropey hack job poo-poo. Took a cool idea and made it not fun anymore.</p></div>
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		<div id="comment_body_64002061"><p>...dozens of bland Marvel movies, a handful of Fart and Furious movies, Lego movies, Barbie movies (like... Lego and Barbie for real?! What next? My Little Pony vs Furby?).</p><p>What more proof do you need that the entertainment industry has simply quit trying to come up with new ideas and it just shamelessly milking older franchises for all they're worth?</p></div>
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Meh, my Disney+, Netflix and Amazon queues are so full of "new idea" programs it would take me a year to get through it all.</p><nobr> <wbr></wbr></nobr><p>...but sure, trot out the tired old trope about how there is nothing "new" being released.</p></div></div>
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