heretics! heretics all! what kind of “christian” media is trying to rehabilitate the devilry of witches? there’s exactly one class of christian magic user and it’s called a saint. is merlin a saint? then be gone with him! fuckass fake christians making fakeass neonazi propaganda
there’s a heap of actual christian figures from the period that could center an authentically christian fable about the anglosaxons but that’d be a story about gay shit like charity, aboltionism, and preaching instead of “cool” English Defense League murder fantasy
IDK if this show is actually good or not (on it’s own merits, outside of it’s political context) but AFAIK after The Hobbit’s Slop Trilogy and Game of Thrones epic season 8 rakestomp the market is probably desperate for anything passable to fill this kind of epic medieval fantasy void.
What even is there except the Last Kingdom, which isn’t even fantasy really and also ended 4 years ago. I’m not counting spin offs.
Does that Lord of the Rings show count as a spinoff?
Anything that’s riding directly off the heels of a major movie/franchise I’d consider a spinoff.
GoT and LotR are both huge IPs. Some story about Merlin isn’t new, but it’s not like a King Arthur movie just made a billion dollars at the box office.
I think there really is just a hunger for new stuff, this is a “new” idea even though it’s based on a book that’s based on a book.
I’d count any spinoff that was fresh and not microwaved leftovers.
Andor would definitely be in that category. It’s the only Star Wars thing my mother in law actually likes lol
Merlin was(as in the character in the og Welsh legends) a pagan seer
“You SJWs control all institutions and media!”
proceeds to always top the charts of every media every single time
“Oh this? Must be because I’m that awesome to keep beating you at your own game lol!”
proceeds to always top the charts of every media every single time
This is at least in large part not true. This series specifically was a useless money sink on release and probably still is, and “socially progressive” media (whether genuinely or more often disingenuously) does way better. It’s more popular to have an affectation of progressivism because minorities can also give you money, the loss of frothing chuds (who are usually only lost in part) is offset by performative libs, and normal people aren’t put off by it the same way as they will be by, for example, the Run Hide Fight sequel coming up. Obviously media can’t be “too” progressive, and there are stark exceptions like with the subject of the military, but in terms of how it relates to mainstream society within the imperial core, it leans on the “SJW” side to use your turn of phrase.
I don’t know who is gaslighting you on this subject, since chuds and libs frequently agree that the libs are more popular and they are correct in this case. There are some chuds who do silent majority rhetoric, but even at the Daily Wire the official line is that it’s basically an even split in terms of the population but lib media is way more successful (they have explicitly discussed this to justify their media ventures), which is downplaying that they are also a minority popularly, but is nonetheless closer to the truth than “chuds are widely beloved in every facet of media and have a superior standing to libs”.
Obviously god helped them /s
it occurs to me that marketing materials create a false equivalence between streaming views and movie tickets.
like, back when going to the movies was the standard, i watched some junk for sure, but the stakes were higher. i would commit to watching certain movies no matter what anyone said, but people’s opinions and reviews did matter for the majority of movies. if something was talked about as great by many, i would see it. or i would later rent it.
nowadays, i watch all kinds of shit that sucks, just because I’m bored and the cost is just my own time. and maybe im just waiting for my food to finish cooking. i think there is a lot more casual media consumption happening now than 20 years ago.
so like, when something is “rocketing to the top” for views, it’s not really that big of a signal. to me, it means its probably just not god awful boring and its maybe arriving when there isn’t much else going on in the genre lately.
Don’t forget people second-screening or just having it on for background noise. Also isn’t this shit managed at least partly by algorithm? So it basically amounts to “This show is inoffensive enough that people don’t turn it off when we push it to them.”
I can’t believe that anybody has watched the entire season of this truly dog shit show. The acting and writing are so bad, so horrendous that it isn’t even funny bad. It’s difficult to watch. I torrented the first episode not knowing what it was and only discovered who made it afterwards.
