And I wonder how many will now be shelved as tax write-offs?
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Dark Crystal and Willow, I’m looking at you! Hell, Willow was yanked from Disney before I even had a chance to watch it. 
I’ve never understood this. I mean, I understand why Netflix did this at first: they needed a shit ton of content to present to their customers at first, but it’s a poor way to build loyalty/repeat viewers for your show and channel. While the Networks used this model based on production timelines and airtime scheduling, it also had the benefit of allowing word of mouth from curious viewers to build, allowing a show that started of shaky to finish strong, even course correct as viewer comments rolled in.
The streaming model of dropping whole seasons at once feels discriminatory against people who aren’t in their 20s to early 30s. Not everyone has copious free time to binge watch whole seasons as they drop. I love that I can watch whenever instead of being tied to a timeslot. After work, cooking, ballet, swim, scouts, drama, homework help and prep for the next day, there is no time, energy, or desire to watch a show, let alone a whole season.
Then something on the “to watch” list gets yanked, and I question why I’m even paying for the service.
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Well, we knew Disney+ was going to lose money because basically all of the streaming services lose money until they miraculously don’t. Disney+ isn’t in the miracle stage yet. Pumping all that money into so much original content might not have been the best decision considering this service could have coasted on nostalgia.
All this sounds like the result of bad choices. I get it, though. In business you have to take risks. It’s just so many. And after the last writers strike, I’m surprised anyone was willing to risk continuing to underpay them. They’re the backbone of the creative side. They’re so important, especially considering Disney’s hack and slash, rearrange and reconsider what the movie is until the very last minute approach.
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It’s especially a shame what Disney has done with any Muppet properties, like Dark Crystal…
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Does Disney own the rights to Dark Crystal? It was distributed by Universal Pictures. The new Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance show was produced by Netflix and I don’t think Disney was involved, were they? It was made by the Jim Henson Company which is a separate entity from the Muppets franchise, which Disney bought the rights to in 2004.
Disney owns Henson and has done since the 90s, so there is some connection, even if other companies produced this (probably due to prior copyright arrangements since the original move was produced pre-Disney).
I liked most of Andor, as I enjoyed the deliberate “slow pacing”, maybe I’m in a minority there.
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Disney has owned the Muppets since the 90s 2004 but according to Wikipedia the Jim Henson Company is still an independent entity. Dark Crystal does feel like the kind of franchise they would buy up though.
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Ah… My mistake.
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In fairness it’s nearly impossible to keep track of what the Mouse owns these days. This is the best graphic I’ve seen but it may not be up-to-date:
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Time to break up that mouse-opoloy…
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I, and many others liked it, it got good ratings on Rotten Tomato, and it was one of the most streamed shows of that year. The linked Forbes article suggested it wasn’t being watched, but the wiki of Andor says it was in the top ten of all original shows streamed in the US, including during the week the Forbes article came , as per a couple different sites that report streaming numbers. It also got nominated for several awards. Everything I’ve heard about Andor outside that Forbes article seems positive.
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Whenever I try to map out any industry I end up with a nagging voice in my head that there’s only one company left and somehow no one has noticed or proven it yet.
Movie pitch:
Disney loses track of what it owns and tries to buy a company from itself. Hilarity ensues.
Either played out as a rom-com, but written and directed by Ken Loach,
or as a mockumentary with explosions, directed by Michael Bay.
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Yeah, getting off topic here, but one of my biggest peeves with streaming services is when I’ve been consistently watching a show, like, I watched Bones episodes a couple times a week, one per evening, for example, slowly making my way through the series over the course of months, and then I go to watch and it’s just, poof, gone.
It’s happened with a couple other shows. It pisses me off that they haven’t bothered to add an algorithm that can alert viewers that stuff on their “watch list” or “continue watching” queue is going to get yoinked. I know it’s doable. But it’s not about us.
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Weird flex to pile in on Andor rather than the disliked, derided and not watched. I’m looking at you that Obi Wan one and that other one with the toy that they tried to rescue half way through by making it actually a season of the Mandalorian.
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