Session #1: From the Ashes (60,521 views)

Hooray for frosted butts!

When the film came out, I made a tweet thread about how Captain Marvel was historically treated poorly, as a point of comparison with Polaris. Both of them have a roughly similar history of such: intro'd as feminist for their time, suddenly rewritten as the exact opposite of feminist, bodies violated (the whole rape thing for Carol, Malice for Lorna), depowered to promote other characters (Rogue for Carol, Storm and Malice and Zaladane for Lorna). Yet today Marvel's completely rebuilt Carol and put her out there in a big way, while they insist on continuing to treat Lorna poorly. To me it gives away that the company isn't at all genuine about being progressive. It's just for sales and PR.

I saw tweets about that too!

(It’s about One Day at A Time, right?)

Didn't they cancel it because they didn't want to renew a licensing fee or something?

It was something relatively small that they could have done but chose not to for money. Which is always the case with networks and streaming sites, as you said.

Mac and I both watched but IDR if we made a thread for it.

You left out OTH.

<3 Reunion <3

Re: ODAAT, IDK about the licensing thing but I could see that factoring in. I know I saw one of the writers/producers/whoever telling people to please stream all of S3 ASAP, so viewership had to be not great.

I know people are getting on the promotional aspect but I honestly have only ever seen Stranger Things, Orange Is The New Black and 13 Reasons Why being advertised outside of Netflix and only after they got popular/awards buzz through word of mouth (and 13RW was just the one time). Within the Netflix app, I've seen all their original stuff being advertised a ton, ODAAT included.

OTH is the Aunt that comes to visit. A little bit folksy a lot a bit dramatic but good intentions. Skins is the wild child distant cousin that likes to turn up and pierce baby's ears and slap a fake tattoo on them before rolling out of town.



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I have difficulty believing the ratings excuse from streaming sites like Netflix, hulu, and Prime. They are notorious for inflating their numbers while not actually revealing any hard stastistical facts to back it up. Obviously, it's about money so them trying to act like it's not is so asinine. They really don't have to say anything or give reasoning behind their cancellations but they do anyway but they use excuses that only work for television networks that have more transparency with their business decisions.

So idk if Netflix is going to cancel something just cancel it and shut up. The ratings excuse doesn't work and the high production cost is only applicable to few shows.

That's entirely a personal preference that not everyone prescribes to.

I do agree they need to do better in notifying people of what's leaving and when. The only time I know what's gone is if I look for outside articles on the subject

I'm not surprised. They should have used this opportunity to find someone with talent but I figured they would just wait until the heat died down before they rehired him.