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Penny Arcade - Comic - Willno
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Willno
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I've seen this posted a couple of times, and I always think, "Are we talking about the same vault? You know, the one where they keep things that are actually in high demand and will be incredibly popular when they take them back out again?"
Other than Willow, most people can't even name another show that's being axed. Especially not one that Disney actually outright owns. The Mighty Ducks: Gamechangers? Turner & Hooch? Here's the full list as its known now:
Be Our Chef
Best In Dough
Best In Snow
Big Shot
Black Beauty
Cheaper by the Dozen
Clouds
Diary of a Future President
Disney Fairy Tale Weddings
Dollface
Earth To Ned
Encore!
Everything’s Trash
Foodtastic
Howard
It’s a Dog’s Life With Bill Farmer
Just Beyond
Little Demon
Love In The Time Of Corona
Maggie
Magic Camp
Marvel’s Project Hero
Marvel’s MPower
Marvel’s Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
Pistol
Rosaline
Stargirl
Stuntman
The Hot Zone
The Making Of Willow
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
The Mysterious Benedict Society
The One And Only Ivan
The Premise
The Quest
The World According To Jeff Goldblum
Timmy Failure
Weird but True!
Willow
Wolfgang
Y: The Last Man
The only one where I was actually thinking "wait, what?" was Y. And that was already canceled once, two years ago, and I don't think Disney even owns it. It was made for FX and they just had it playing on Hulu(Edit: slight correction - FX is owned by Disney, so it was technically a Disney/Hulu show), and maybe nobody really watched it? The only other name I even recognize is The Mysterious Benedict Society, because I have young children. Looking it up, it was already canceled back in January and they're just removing it. It seems to have gotten middling reviews.
We've had some especially daft moves in tv and movies lately, mainly by David Zaslav of Warner Bros Discovery HBO Tacopepsihut. But these cancelations/removals? They seem to actually make sense to a company that's trying to make money. I look at this list and think, yeah, that's probably a lot of stuff you don't need to pay to keep.
Or maybe it was yet another case of Hollywood not respecting the source material and making a bunch of needless/unnecessary changes? (Kinda like the Witcher). /shrug. Guess now I'll never find out.
Personally I quite enjoyed Dollface and would like to see a 3rd season, but I agree with the general point that this list isn't exactly top-tier.
The only complaints I could really offer about Disney plus is that they don't have enough of the old Disney channel shows (specifically Smart Guy and Jett Jackson, though I assume there are rights issues going on with both of those), and that they don't seem to be doing the "Disney Afternoon" thing that they were teasing with Talespin and Darkwing Duck following after the awesomeness of the Duck Tales reboot.
Some of it was, but also a lot was shovelware sequels and spinoffs, like Lion Guard - the Lion King spinoff about Simba's son who became an airbender.
It also wasn't their only rotating sales moratorium, just the only one they gave a name and advertised as if it was a good thing. There was a limit to how many of the Herbie films were available at a time (as well as several other series), a bunch of actors had concurrent available film limits, and they had era collections where only 2-3 films of a collection would be available at a time.
I was hopeful for that one.
Such a fool.
It came out during the early days of the pandemic, which was poor timing for people being able to watch such a thing psychologically, in my case.
"Willow had themes?" I mean, I guess it did, technically, but only in the most generic way possible.
Ironically, that's what Hulu sorta was. It was owned by multiple independent companies, and had shows from their properties, plus ones outside it. Disney jumped in, and added their stuff. Then they slowly bought out the shares (or the companies that owned them), until now it's just Disney.
-Tycho Brahe
Cheaper By The Dozen and Everything's Trash should have a soft landing on Netflix.
I've had The World According Jeff Goldblum and Stargirl on my watchlist since I got Disney+ and now I've gotta figure out if I can binge them before Friday.
My wife enjoyed Willow. I assume people who saw themes in the original film were not the target audience for the series.
Powers &8^]
The fact that Wil Ohmsford went on to play Elvis Presley still kind of messes with me. But yeah, that adaptation in particular hurt me as the Elfstones of Shannara was one of my favorite fantasy novels as a child. And the show just found increasingly horrible ways to butcher its adaptation.
"Interactive Menus". That would be the whole point of a menu, yes.
Did someone order some pedantry?
Keep in mind when DVD's were new, VHS was still dominating the market, so something like a menu where you could skip immediately to a desired scene instead of waiting through fast forwarding or rewinding a tape was a very bulletpointable and braggable feature for prospective buyers instead of just an expected status quo.
Now get off my lawn. Damn kids.
Also many DVDs had menus that were more than just a selector between watch movie, special features, and audio/subtitles. Like some had rudimentary games that would change the background media that would play in the menu screen etc.
I remember accidentally scrolling off menu on a Futurama DVD and accessing a table read for an episode
I then had to try every other DVD in the box set just in case