I started watching the Watchmen show. I like it. Unfortunately it will not get the amount of attention it deserves since the internet nerd crowd thinks it's social justice propaganda.

I watched one episode and couldn't be bothered.SuperJail Warden wrote:
I started watching the Watchmen show. I like it. Unfortunately it will not get the amount of attention it deserves since the internet nerd crowd thinks it's social justice propaganda.
… which could be taken under a certain lens as a kind of backhanded commentary.Alan Moore wrote:
“I wanted to kind of make this like, ‘Yeah, this is what Batman would be in the real world.’ But I had forgotten that actually to a lot of comic fans that smelling, not having a girlfriend—these are actually kind of heroic. So actually, sort of, Rorschach became the most popular character in Watchmen. I meant him to be a bad example, but I have people come up to me in the street saying, ‘I am Rorschach! That is my story!’ And I’ll be thinking, ‘Yeah, great, can you just keep away from me and never come anywhere near me again for as long as I live?’”
I was just coming hear to post about the Witcher. I watched one episode and think it blows. I am sure it will well with video games nerds but not because it is a good show.DesertFox- wrote:
Watched a few episodes of The Witcher series on Netflix. It's not bad, having read about a fair amount of the lore in that universe, but I don't know how much it'd appeal to people who know nothing about it.
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No. In fact my favorite character in GoT was Dany who is obviously nothing like me. But like 80% of the Witcher is just following around the big blonde dude as he does things and looks badass and that seems kind of gay to do for 10 hours voluntarily.DesertFox- wrote:
I was expecting Hobbit-quailty CGI from an untested Netflix series, so I was pleasantly surprised with how it looked. Do you only watch shows where you can project yourself onto the protagonist?
Netflix now routinely ends shows after their second season, even when they’re still popular. Netflix has learned that the first two seasons of a show are key to bringing in subscribers—but the third and later seasons don’t do much to retain or win new subscribers.
So the company is trying to get new subscribers, and wants to keep old subscribers just happy enough to not quit the service. And there’s this other tidbit:
Ending a show after the second season saves money, because showrunners who oversee production tend to negotiate a boost in pay after two years.