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AoS is scheduled to be on Disney Plus over here in Europe, so I suspect the only reason it isn't on the American version (yet) is because of the contract with Netflix.
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Oh, btw, the elephant dung thing? Most likely fake. There isn't actually drinkable water in elephant dung.
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Well, if it splits away from all the other democrats who are half republicans, I am all for it. But him winning the nomination would be a catastrophe, for all the reasons pointed out in the show. That might be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. The only thing which I consider more dangerous than a millionaire who lacks any empathy is one who is also somewhat smart on top of it.
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Oh, right, how could I forget that one? One of my favourite episodes. I honestly want to eat a stew like this one day....
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One of the worst episodes of Supernatural, and one of the reasons I dropped the show altogether…
It's encouraging that all over the world people are still fighting against politicians like Modi, but let's be honest, those politicians shouldn't be in power in the first place.
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Tripe? So they just showed Ryo vs Akira?
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AoS is known for being a show which did WAY better in streaming than live. Those live ratings you quote? Yeah, AoS more than doubled, sometimes tripled those numbers within three days, and that is not counting all the people to get to it within a week or waited until it dropped on streaming. That's because AoS isn't really a good show for live TV, since the show works of the assumption that the audience not just watches every episode, but also remembers what happened in the show five seasons later. It's exactly what I love about it, but it lead to a lot of people preferring to stream it instead of watching it live. Didn't help that sometimes AoS had an extremely erratic schedule, especially during its first episodes and in 2016, during which there were constantly episodes not shown in some areas due to the elections.
Nielson numbers only provide half of the picture nowadays, and they are an outdated system to truly measure the popularity of a show. Like I mentioned, once they looked into streaming, it turned out that AoS is one of the most popular and most watched show worldwide. Which is exactly why they keep the show going.-
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Granted, Samuel L. Jackson really wanted to be on the show, so I guess he was ready to wave his usual salary and settled for something which was affordable for a TV show. And most likely he only turned up for one or two days of shooting and the writers made the most out of it. If you really pay attention you realise that he most likely was never even in a room with the other actors in the various scenes he turned up in. They most likely just shot his part and later puzzled what they needed together.
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I am just asking if it is really so much more complicated to have a TV character - say Quake - turn up in a movie than having a movie character - see Fury, Sif, Gideon Malick, President Ellis - turn up in a TV show. Especially considering that we already had a case of a character from a TV show turning up in a movie.
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But wouldn't the same rules apply to the movies?
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I don't think anyone is credited that way in the Marvel shows…(plus, Disney is stingy with giving credits anyway, if they could, they would instead TAKE the credit which belongs to other writers and make them their own)
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No, but either they don't want to share with no writer at all, or they just don't want to share with TV writers. In the former case, they have already shown that yes, they are ready to share with other writers, and the latter case is irrelevant for AoS, since the Pilot episode was written and directed by Joss Whedon.
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But wouldn't James Gunn and Perlman get money for the use of Howard the Duck, too?
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But aren't the rights of those characters with Marvel anyway? I mean, maybe not for Fitzsimmons and May, but certainly when it comes to Daisy. Quake is after all a comic book character.
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Now if my friend from the Star Trek writer's world is correct it never would have happened because a TV writer owns the usage of Daisy, May, all of them except for Coulson and movie producers would never set the precedent of paying for such a small cameo that a provision that the TV writer's contract had since the last TV writer's strike.
If that were the reason, they wouldn't have added Jarvis to Endgame either. After all, HE came from Agent Carter. I think the lack of AoS characters in Endgame is simply because it would have been impossible to add them without letting the writers of AoS in what was planned. But AoS is ending now, for the better or the worse. I think for the worse, but if nothing else, it "frees" the character in a sense. Provided that Feige wants to use them in the first place. They aren't as easily discarded as Runaways or Cloak and Dagger are.
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AoS isn't a failure AT ALL!!! Did it lose a lot of viewers in the beginning because the show was not what a lot of them expected? Yes. But it is ALSO Marvels longest running TV show by a mile, one study has shown that it is one of the most watched shows Worldwide period, and when Disney Plus made a test launch in the Netherlands, AoS was the second most watched property directly after Avengers Endgame. Not Star Wars, not any of the other Marvel Movies, AoS. It also brought new fans to the MCU because some people actually START with AoS and then decide to check out the movies, too.
AoS has more viewers than some shows where there internet has decided that they were a success...and that includes all of the CW shows and all of the Marvel Netflix shows.
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Regarding the notion that the oldest characters are automatically the most popular...no, not really. Let's remember that Spider-Man was invented long, loooong after the Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, and he is apparently making more money on its own than DC makes with the whole Trinity. The X-men are also a fairly new property...well, not THAT new, but nobody really cared about them before they got re-designed into being more diverse. It is more difficult now, I guess, to push a character to the same level, because people who still read comics are very attached to the "originals", but I don't think that it is impossible.
And for the movies it doesn't matter anyway. I really don't want to know how much money Disney made with Baby Groot merch alone *looks guilty at my own dancing baby groot*
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It's not like there aren't a lot older X-men stories NOT the Phoenix saga worth telling.
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Isn't that pretty normal for most comic books other than the big hitters like Spider-Man and Batman? A constant circle of rebooted stories which eventually fizzle out just to be rebooted again?
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In addition, the people who have actually read the story are all pretty excited about seeing a take on it. Which leads me to conclude that it is one of the good ones. The only newer Marvel comic which has more buzz surrounding it is Ms Marvel. Well, and I guess Squirrel girl is very popular? I am not sure if that's the comic book itself or the character...
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Btw...is Gritty becoming the most well-known mascot of them all? I mean, it looks terrifying, but it IS memorable. Which is kind of the point, isn't it?
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I guess this depends on how successful the movie is, how successful the new franchises are and what the plans of the actors are.
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It's not just that...I remember a so called heart-warming story about a teacher who has cancer and everyone else was giving up sick-days for him, including one women who had cancer herself, so that he could get his treatment and I was all "wait...what?...nobody should HAVE to give up their sick days for anyone."
The whole system is through and through inhuman, on every level. Especially the part in which you have to continue working even if you are sick because if you don't you lose the health insurance you need.
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It's not always marketing...sometimes they just like to explore new ideas. And sometimes the new character continues to exist side by side with the original one. See Spider-Gwen.
S07.E02: India PM Narendra Modi
in Last Week Tonight
I looked it up and discovered an article about the show in which this happened - and how fake it was. An actual survival expert was commenting on how many tips given in it were actually nonsense or outright dangerous (like risking getting wet in the wilderness, or running and climbing around, risking an injury, when the smartest thing to do for survival is actually to avoid both and rather take a longer way than risking injury or hypothermia). There was a side note regarding the elephant dung thing, which boiled down to "the only way to get drinkable water from it is if you camera man emptied a bottle over it beforehand"