Rick and Morty they were smart enough to advertise on Fox and other places off-network in advance.Įven if they still had Futurama these days I can just watch the entire run on Netflix so there's less reason to watch re-runs unless they get some deep cuts on awesome, overlooked shows (e.g. It's even better when Aqua Teen Hunger Force changes names between seasons so my TiVo doesn't even recognize when it comes back.Īt this point they air things so erratically that I don't even watch the channel consistently so new shows are really hard for me to pick up on. But if it doesn't sweep the world and become the next smash-hit pop culture sensation, I always know that its time in the world will be unfortunately brief.Īfter losing Sym-bionic Titan and Tron: Uprising, I've learned that high ratings and critical praise aren't always enough to justify a show's high price tag and warrant a continuation.
I'm always so happy to see something of such artistic caliber grace the television screen. That's always my fear when I see shows like Black Dynamite come out. That's why I'm really sad to see it get canceled, but to be honest, not shocked. But I also know that, for animation looking that good, it must cost a ridiculous amount to make. Praise doesn't mean a thing if the ratings don't justify the cost of producing the show.īlack Dynamite is one of my favorite shows ever, with some of the sleekest most stylish animation I've seen. This is why we see crappy low-budget cartoons with decent ratings getting renewed, and awesome critically acclaimed highly-rated cartoons getting canceled. So in their profit-driven minds, Cartoon C actually did half as good as Cartoon A. However, Cartoon C cost four times more to produce than Cartoon A. They cancel it.Ĭartoon C does twice as well as Cartoon A. Rarely people with creative insight, just lots of "business sense."Ĭartoon B only does half as well as Cartoon A. Similarity was much more prevalent pre-internet due to the harder to find resources for niche interests.ĩ0s nostalgia will be much more noticeable with television and film than music.īusiness people. Reddit is proof that finding others with similar interests is only a couple clicks away. Fashion to some extent and other interests also splintered significantly during this period. Since the internet became big in the mid to late 90s, it's trivial to listen to music you like rather than what gets the most airplay and gets the production dollars. We have the internet along with mp3 players to thank for that I think. It's harder to have 90s nostalgia like previous decades because the 90s, at least when it comes to music, never really left.
Alt and modern rock stations have been spinning these bands for 2 decades straight.
The one thing different this time is nirvana, sublime, bush, pearljam, soundgarden, stone temple pilots, and all the other bands that brought alt-rock mainstream never left the radio. Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "The Facts of Life" and "Diff'rent Strokes" R/television's favorite shows of all time (2020 edition)