Steve: turns on lightsaber

Steve: Hm…what does the green plasma taste like?

  • MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world
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    It’s cause the people that fund movies and games have absolutely no imagination. So to get something funded, you have to sell it as: Think of it as “Friends, but set in the star wars universe”

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      It think it has a lot more to do with how risky it’s seen- the budgets for these films and shows are huge.

      Further they’re dinosaurs who still see sci-fi as “not popular” and “risky”- but a lot of that actually has to do with idiots doing broadcasting stupidity.

      (Like airing Babylon 5 opposite St:DS9 in a time when DVRs didn’t exist, or mucking with the episode order of firefly, so everyone was extremely confused about who and what was going on in the first few episodes,)

      Couple that with needing to include merchandising opportunities (baby yoda, for example,) and generally satisfying corpos that it’s going to turn bigger profits than, say, uh… whatever is currently streaming….

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      Most the shows he listed he’s giving examples of existing shows. And actually, his Police Procedural sounds exactly like the Peacock-Original “Poker Face”, except without Jedi…lead character (Natasha Lyone) is essentially a human lie detector. Great easy-watching bingable crime-comedy, IMO.