I think that the actual cancellations were mostly Netflix and the shows could probably have kept going for years longer if Netflix was willing to commit.
Yeah, and what's really sad is at least the Luke Cage and Daredevil teams were already breaking out their next seasons in the writing rooms. And Netflix disagreed with the LC showrunner about how he was, well, running his show to the point they pulled the plug. I don't think any of the big companies come off well at all.
But Marvel is really twisting the knife by showing no particular signs of wanting to resurrect those shows (they're going to have the rights back in 2021 at the latest! They could already be hinting at a Defenders movie or a streaming deal if they wanted to do it!).
SERIOUSLY
People were already YELLING for a DotD teamup, and Charlie Cox has said he'd go on playing Matt for another show, the movies, whatever. And God knows a lot of these actors were indelible as the characters. (Hell, they just hired Mahershala Ali as Blade -- apparently he called up Feige and said "I want to be Blade," and Feige, having not been raised by fools, said SURE.) It feels like a whole lot of this fandom also gets exposed to how the sausage gets made, so to speak, and that also puts a damper on it for me. I mean I don't have any illusions about Disney being cute and fluffy, but it's a fucking bummer to have it laid out just how mercenary and subjective a lot of these decision are. (And also based on DELUSIONS, see: Perlmutter.)
They just don't seem to get, or care, how invested people are in individual characters in the franchise. And okay, sure, in the short term, they have no particular reason to care unless it's the parts of the franchise that are making them money. But for the long game, you don't get people to invest in new characters if you don't treat the old ones well
YEAH, seriously. I mean, Black Panther was awesome and a fucking cultural event and it was really joyous -- and then Wakanda got trashed in the very next movie and they snapped T'Challa, who returned for like all of five minutes in EG, and now the sequel isn't even anywhere near on the schedule? I really want to see more of that Black Panther world the director and actors and crew created, but you know, is the same thing going to happen to this world that happened to Steve and Tony and Natasha?
Re: (We talked about it before, but...)
Yeah, and what's really sad is at least the Luke Cage and Daredevil teams were already breaking out their next seasons in the writing rooms. And Netflix disagreed with the LC showrunner about how he was, well, running his show to the point they pulled the plug. I don't think any of the big companies come off well at all.
But Marvel is really twisting the knife by showing no particular signs of wanting to resurrect those shows (they're going to have the rights back in 2021 at the latest! They could already be hinting at a Defenders movie or a streaming deal if they wanted to do it!).
SERIOUSLY
People were already YELLING for a DotD teamup, and Charlie Cox has said he'd go on playing Matt for another show, the movies, whatever. And God knows a lot of these actors were indelible as the characters. (Hell, they just hired Mahershala Ali as Blade -- apparently he called up Feige and said "I want to be Blade," and Feige, having not been raised by fools, said SURE.) It feels like a whole lot of this fandom also gets exposed to how the sausage gets made, so to speak, and that also puts a damper on it for me. I mean I don't have any illusions about Disney being cute and fluffy, but it's a fucking bummer to have it laid out just how mercenary and subjective a lot of these decision are. (And also based on DELUSIONS, see: Perlmutter.)
They just don't seem to get, or care, how invested people are in individual characters in the franchise. And okay, sure, in the short term, they have no particular reason to care unless it's the parts of the franchise that are making them money. But for the long game, you don't get people to invest in new characters if you don't treat the old ones well
YEAH, seriously. I mean, Black Panther was awesome and a fucking cultural event and it was really joyous -- and then Wakanda got trashed in the very next movie and they snapped T'Challa, who returned for like all of five minutes in EG, and now the sequel isn't even anywhere near on the schedule? I really want to see more of that Black Panther world the director and actors and crew created, but you know, is the same thing going to happen to this world that happened to Steve and Tony and Natasha?