Yeah, you’d think. How many people do you know who’ve sat at the bar in the members’ bar in Club 33 watching Fantasmic?
Friday Night Lights is utterly wonderful, but possibly the worst marketed show ever. It is so much more than a show about football, but so many women who would absolutely love it are turned off by that being how it is pitched. I bet if it was called something generic like “Dillon, TX” it would have more fans (or “this is us”). Lost is the only Network show I have ever done a full rewatch of. This is the only other one I would ever consider doing.
The last episode with Taylor telling Wallace (he’ll always be Wallace) that he’ll never know how proud of him he is…“you saved my life, coach”
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I mean that is literally the MO of Star Wars. Do you remember the late 70s when Star Wars stuff were the top selling toys.
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Wasnt it Star wars that kicked off the trend?
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There’s a Wikipedia article on it here. It’s sounds like the toy companies picked on Star Wars after Close Encounters didn’t offer up any marketing opportunities.
I think what @Klopptimist was alluding to was coming up with a toy idea and writing a film to go with it, which I suspect Disney have done on occasion.
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The He Man cartoons were created as a direct result of Mattel’s angst at turning down the Star Wars toy contract. As soon as they saw how big it became they started searching for their version and so commissioned an animation studio to make them a show to go along with a new toy line they were developing.
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Tbf to all of you who told me to watch that awful Shark Under Paris move, it did predict this:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/seine-river-cleanup-paris-olympics
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but its as it ever was?
what were the Ewoks?..fundamentally pivotal to the story?
its just star wars being star warsy
Finale of Who was uneven for my money. Some strong elements and some bits falling quite short.
Overall a decent season of telly, but didn’t end as highly as last weeks episode made me hope it would. Will watch the next season.
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Sounds like it might be a typical RTD finalé, which always feels a bit of an anticlimax after a great build up.
I don’t think I will be watching until tomorrow night as my wife is working nights (unless the kids want to see it before).
Regarding the toys, my brother is on the cusp of completing a serious deal associated with a big new educational cartoon series. The characters’ designs went through the toy manufacturers (who made several changes) before they were animated. It’s all about the merch. Literally change the hair to this and it will be cheaper.
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part of me wants it to be inclusive to the point of saturation…then if you dont mind flick us a video of a family get together…
Now how could this be? Fans (in the main) not keen but professional critics do? The word shill leaps to mind.
My sister’s very female if that helps? I had quite a nice suntan last year and I’m sure I’ve seen my wife kiss Jnr at some point so bar disabled, think we have all the bases covered. Although that doesn’t embrace my hearing and visual privilege. Damn……
Both extremes seem ridiculous to me. Only watched as far as 73 Yards so far, but overall I’d put it at a solid 7/10 so far pushing towards a 7.5
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Each to their own I guess. Recently watched all of Tennant through Matt Smith. Genius writing, brilliant acting and although a clunker here and there, fantastic scifi. Gatwa is a brilliant charismatic force. Achingly enthusiastic and a joy. But if he’s written like a coward with the priority being his personal identity, he’s not “a” doctor let alone “the” doctor. If your fav episode is 73, says a lot about the new doctor……
It’s called review bombing. Organised groups (who more than likely haven’t even seen the show) post negative reviews in an attempt to harm an IP.
The reverse is studios paying PR firms to get overly positive reviews.
Personally, I avoid the likes of Rotten Tomatoes because it is so easily manipulated, particularly with new productions.
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Ahhhhh, review bombing. Of course. Sadly, that’s the cryof the show runners / production companies who’s output does not sit well with the fans. Why would anybody review bomb something they actually liked? Ever left a negative review for a hotel / restaurant you enjoyed?
Moses Ingrahms (spelling?) was briefed in advance of her role in Obi W that she’d get racist abuse on Twitter which then magically appeared. Wonder how that happened.Not like Disney would create sock puppet accounts to create a news story about racist fans therefor all criticism of the show was racist. Fan baiting it the issue, not review bombing.
As for the latest video from The Acolyte’s star, that’s just priceless.
There are huge numbers of bigots who write negative reviews about businesses that they want to damage. They will openly encourage people on Twitter and the like to post poor reviews.
TBH, I don’t think fans have a problem with it. I was at a Doctor Who convention a few weeks back and everyone was loving it. There was a brief show of hands for anyone not happy and the only criticism was that the series was too short.
I’m not even sure what you mean by “fan baiting”. I know Steven Moffat would put in things to wind up the Ming Mongs, but that was pretty obvious.
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Dr Who conventions, members clubs at Disney World…
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