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[-] [email protected] 121 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pheebo has the IP rights to make a show based on the books, but Tubu has the rights to make a show based on the movies that were based on the books. Poob is making a show based off a fanfic written about the backstory of a character created for the movie that most people hated. All three shows have the same name and tell conflicting versions of events. The original author has disowned all of them on Flipster.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

Which ones are available in my country?

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Sorry, the megaconglomerate that bought the rights to the IP decided it's cheaper to delist the show and destroy all existing recordings. You know, for tax reasons.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Seasons 4 and 7 are available in your country!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Two of them are available in the US, the other is available in the UK. If you don't live there, die

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[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago

You could tell me that half of those are real streaming services that only exist in the USA and I'd believe you

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

those are real streaming services that only exist in the USA

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You sound confident. I believe you.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Na only Weeno is. Gumpy is actually Canadian.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Hulu, Tubi, Pluto, and Roku are all real. I know that’s the joke, but for the non americans out there.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

It’s weird, I barely watch any shows these days.

Everything just feels so over saturated and “checklisty”.

I’ll make an exception occasionally and there is stuff that grabs my attention, but most stuff just seems like “Tubu’s third fantasy show release of the year to hit the quota”…

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

I saw an article the other day talking about how poorly most shows from the past 5-10 years are performing compared to older shows. The top streamed shows are largely from the late 90s to early 2010s.

It truly feels like we're in a quality rut right now.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I'm currently rewatching season 3 of futurama, season 6 of Stargate sg1, season 4 of star trek tng, and I'm thinking of adding Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica into the mix.

Most of my shows are definitely 90s-2010ish

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Obligatory Babylon 5 comment.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I haven't seen Stargate or Quantum Leap, but I've seen the others so many times. Futurama, especially, is one show that I'm always in the mood for.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would love to see what a memelord like yourself could do with the fertile ground that is SG1 memes.

We'd love to have you over at chevron7

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Quantum Leap is just beautiful, and Stargate is fun

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm kinda pumped for season 9 of futurama though. Reboot fatigue is definitely a thing but I don't mind it when futurama does it. It just won't stay dead!

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, that's the problem you get when so much is readily archived. If whatever's currently coming out sucks, there's so much history to pull the greatest hits from that you can just...stop watching new content. For years. Possibly ever.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it's the overstaturation and the nature of streaming. People used to watch scheduled shows and talk about them the next day. That's not a thing anymore. Not to mention, entertainment is much more polarizing now that everyone has their own online echo-chamber.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think it's far more about nostalgia. Of course the same people who have watched the office 100 times over are going to watch it 100 times again. They aren't looking to be entertained, they're looking to veg out and not think (which I suppose to some is entertainment). NFL

Plus I can't even think of a popular show in the past 10 years that had a meaningful conclusion. I don't really watch a lot of TV so this could easily just be that I'm out of the loop, but it seems like a lot of endings are bad.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

People used to listen to entire albums over and over again, each time getting new perspective on the music. And people re-read their favorite novels over and over again.

I think that's what we're doing with TV. We know what joke is coming, so we can watch other things in the background that we didn't catch the first time.

At least that's what I'll tell myself on my fifth rewatch of SG1.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Plus I can't even think of a popular show in the past 10 years that had a meaningful conclusion. I don't really watch a lot of TV so this could easily just be that I'm out of the loop, but it seems like a lot of endings are bad.

Justified ended in 2015, Better Call Saul wrapped up in 2022. I think those two qualify as solid conclusions. It speaks to your point that I could only readily come up with two examples.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I have noticed shows and movies lately have been very choppy, almost like they're trying to chain together a bunch of tiktoks and calling it a movie. The dialogue has also gotten pretty terrible, like AI is writing it. It doesn't sound human.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It might just be because the public is now spread over so many services...

Are those morons trying to compare the numbers from years ago when you had like one or two nation wide channels with the modern landscape? And the one episode was announced like a week ahead and everybody would be tuning in to watch it at the same time. Now you stream an entire show at will.

It's moronic to want to use the same metric as a measure of success when clearly the entire landscape has changed.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

With streaming you can watch what you want and not the "ehh, there's nothing else on" shows. Studios are still making those low effort, watch because you have to if you want to watch anything at all shows, and maybe it's a feeling of not being in a target audience but they are mostly that these days. Maybe even more so than before, because the studios now don't have a reasonable expectation that people are just gonna watch it because it is on.

They have a pseudo incentive to produce a higher amount of cheap lazy garbage to flood the market with something, anything, that might grab attention and become a hit, whereupon they might invest more into it. They've really been lowering the bar, over and over, and as the bar lowers more and more people aren't stupid enough to follow along and just watch whatever. Why watch modern garbage when there are yesteryear classics that were made with passion, at least enough to veneer over the ever-present profit incentive.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Probably will be for at least another year or two. The creatives need time to cook and they took a huge unplanned hiatus last summer protecting their jobs

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

My SO and I just watch the same shows on repeat (American Dad, Futurama, etc.)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The last popular show I tried was Wednesday. Holy shit it was so bad why did people like it? I dont really watch anything and haven't for years, I only tried Wednesday as something to watch with my gothy (ex)gf and even she thought it was terrible.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

If media companies want us to consume their products legally, they need to make a version of Prowlarr, but for legal streaming sites.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Except when you watch something it only links to some crappy streaming platform, where you still need a subscription to watch it. It does absolutely nothing to solve the issue of streaming platforms shrinking their libraries while at the same time increasing their prices. I would still need to subscribe to like 5 or 6 different services to watch all the stuff I like. No thanks, I'm gonna stay with piracy.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

To be fair, all Prowlarr does is make searching multiple torrent sites easy. That's basically what this site does.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well, no one uses Prowlarr on its own. It's obviously part of the *arr stack, which is basically always used with a BitTorrent client to download and organize the content.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

All the media I care for is on Dropout or qBitTorrent

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Shoutout to dropout, the only streaming platform I pay for

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

You can get around all of this if you score yourself an invite to hereiswhereyougetallthetorrents.bananas

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Personally I only use torrents to download all the linux distributions. I didn’t realise one can install sonarr, radarr and all the other *arrs to rapidly, easily download shows and films and make them available to a media server. Also I didn’t realise people can install lunarsea on their phones and remote control the whole thing so they literally just have to type a title and seconds later it appears in their media server. Personally I just use it to check out the many Linux distributions on the internet.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

it's actually called 'Ploob'

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

My arrrse can't be bothered to check any of those when I have my own Nex server

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

You get Blumbo for free if you are an AT&T customer. Flimmy is included with Xbox Game pass. Zapi is free if you use TurboTax.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Interdimensional Streaming

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As someone who says "AAAAARRRHHHHG," I haven't heard this in a while. As an artist, I believe in supporting artists, but if you don't have the money, you shouldn't have to pay. Eventually, if you have the money, you can donate.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And sometimes, as in the case of real world Philo, there’s no app on the PS5 so you can sign up for a free trial but maybe we just don’t like your device. Yarr

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This is like a plot line from “If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler “

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And if you change countries, everything you had on Pleeboo costs 2X as much now

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

the show always sucks anyway

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Mark Maron bit

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