“We don’t have time (to explain why were doing this)”

Proceeds to have time to do dozens of other useless things

Then you’re using tabs as bookmarks

It’s the old prepper adage: two is one, one is none.

Yep, before the mid-tier movies came out on DVD, which gave them another boost of profit - in many cases bringing the movie from a loss to profitability.

In the streaming world this mechanism doesn’t exist.

There’s a great rant by Matt Damon about how we don’t do mid-budget films any more. We get cheap crap, we get AAA level blockbusters with 200 million marketing budgets, what we don’t get is 40 million movies.

The ones big enough to tell big stories but small enough not to attract attention from mid level execs wanting a producer credit.

50 shades is at least competently made trash, not designed by committee

What I heard was the writers weren’t comic book fans and didn’t know the risk of overpowered characters- they wrote themselves in a corner.

It was also designed to be an anthology show with new heroes every season.

And the first Writers Strike didn’t help at all.