Should AOS move to Netlifx?
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sinjun-84844 — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 02:01 PM)
why would it move them further away.. in essence the netflix series are movies with the way they are released. you could look at each season as one long movie or even a trilogy of movies with the fact that each season is either a 13 hour movie or split up the series with how you look at them based on theme.. the result is the same Netflix series with the way they are released kinda are movies just not in the theater
this would really benefit AOS by forcing them to look at a tighter story.. AOS could have done a 13 episode netflix story focusing on each aspect of their stories and it would be stronger for it. plus you wouldn't have to wait each week for an installment which is kind of outdated so the episodes would have a smoother transition.
if anything it would make it easier to include into the MCU. -
Socialman — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 03:06 AM)
you could look at each season as one long movie or even a trilogy of movies with the fact that each season is either a 13 hour movie or split up the series with how you look at them based on theme..
You can do that with pretty much any TV show, the Netfix shows are no different in that respect. While you're right about them having a tighter story, over the last few years 'normal' TV shows (very much including AoS) have
also
been breaking the narrative of their 22 ep seasons into smaller isolated chunks (instead of just going with random breaks in broadcasting), but with the added benefit of still having a traditional overarcing story line.
Still, this has nothing to do with why moving to Netflix would push AoS further away from the MCU. The whole reason the Netflix shows are able to tell a tighter story is because they
don't
follow anything in the MCU. At all. Nothing is based on or originated in events from the movies. The only 'event' that is ever alluded to is the Chitauri invasion, everything else is shoehorned in there (very sparingly, as if no one involved
wants
it) almost as an afterthought or worse, a marketing ploy. I was honestly very surprised Tony Stark even got a name drop in Luke Cage, especially since they've been actively avoiding using the names Hulk or Thor, despite these names being common knowledge among the population in the MCU.
AoS never had to do that, since they have always been
part of
the main continuity, not just watching and referencing it from beyond a corporate barrier.
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sinjun-84844 — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 05:56 AM)
The Hulk in Harlem was referenced plus likely the incident in the incredible hulk are referenced since it happened in that city whereas winter soldier and Avengers 2 happened but didn't directly effect the characters. the same with events from the Iron Man movies. that isn't something unexpected since i know quite a few people who don't really talk about what is going on outside their own state or even sometimes own county. They might know about it if it comes up sometimes not but i don't ever hear them bringing it up on their own.
so far the most widely traveled of them is Luke Cage although that probably will change with Iron Fist returnig from overseas and K'unn l'unn it might even alter a bit with Spider-man which would be a local movie to the characters in netflix.
that plus the most important thing being able to binge watch the entire season rather than waiting week after week with long pauses sometimes to find out what happened next. granted you could get the dvd when it comes out and binge watch but you have a much greater chance of being spoiled than you do if you just watch it all at once when it comes out on netflix. -
Socialman — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 05:20 AM)
You're missing the point. What I'm saying is, the ties between AoS and the rest of the MCU are structural, the ties between the Netflix shows and the MCU are referential at best.
Undoubtedly a legal issue, but narratively that makes a huge difference. For some reason that seems to escape a lot of the people who keep claiming it's all about the tone.
being able to binge watch the entire season rather than waiting week after week with long pauses sometimes to find out what happened next.
That's just your personal preference, not necessarily what everyone wants. Some shows work better when spread out to once a week (at least the first time) and suffer from binge watching, others the complete opposite. The tight stories on Netflix work best when binging, their original shows are even designed that way.
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Socialman — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 01:26 PM)
Still, there's a lot of characters from the movies that turn up in the series, and the series follows the overall story arc of the movies, referencing everything by name and elaborating on a lot of their plot points. That's very structural.
None of this happens on Netflix.
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ayanami-chan — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 02:13 PM)
I would prefer AoS to stay right where it is, but if the alternatives are cancellation or being picked up by Netflix, I think the choice is pretty obvious.
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