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  1. Blame it on taking some advice from Kevin J. Anderson way to far. Anderson: I read your story on the plane home. You're an incredible writer. I know you've written a trilogy. You should really show it to my agent. Is the first book ready to show around? (Hint: your answer to this question is "yes, of course it's ready." And if it's not ready, you work your ass off over the weekend and you get it ready.) Rothfuss: You see? He knew what I was hoping for, but he didn't have any idea what sort of a writer I was. And he also knew what it was like to be a spooked new writer who finally gets the chance to show his novel off. That's why he wrote that parenthetical to me. So I e-mailed him back and said, verbatim, "Yes, of course it's ready." Then I worked my ass off over the weekend and mailed it off to his agent on Monday. And Matt eventually accepted me as a client. Then, eventually, we sold it. Interview from the Pat's Hotlist
  2. You've probably noticed, but the last names tend to relate to the house. Fifth house is Pent and Quinn. Seventh house is Septimus. etc.
  3. There's nothing low-key about Master of None. Its Netflix's most critically acclaimed comedy and if Anzari decides he wants to do more then Netflix will happily let him. Regardless he's not out there doing press for the show which is the thing you said was utterly preposterous. I judged whether or not a movie was mostly forgotten when people are nominating it for awards six months later. But really I just want to hear about what sort of conspiracy you're sure gamed Netflix's algorithm. I mean the Old Guard couldn't have been popular because you didn't see enough tweets about it. What cast members left aside from Emma Thompson? And how does the movie moving forward without her show Hollywood won't work with Lasseter? Lasseter has a writing credit on Toy Story 4 which came out a year and a half after the story of his serial harassment came out and I don't recall anyone caring. Literally from your link "Season 1 was undoubtedly a success for HBO, but the creators and network initially agreed on making it as a limited series. When season 2 was proposed, the network never anticipated expanding it beyond the current story arc. " Reading comprehension is your friend. When general guide lines loosen up business guide lines follow suit.
  4. So what? You said that doing a show in 2021 where the writer/director didn't do press was utterly preposterous and no company would do it. Yet Netflix is doing it right now. What are you talking about? Who do you think has "gamed" Netflix's algorithm? Why do you think the vagaries of Netflix's method of counting viewership matters when comparing Netflix films' performances relative to one another? If the Old Guard is so forgettable why is it nominated for a Hugo? None of which changes Lasseter publicly being MeToo'd and let go by Disney and then immediately landing a job as head of a different animation studio. It is a sign the season is months away from being complete. The Outsider was always a limited series. It wasn't cancelled. The U.K. literally began loosening up Covid protocols yesterday.
  5. Back in the day there used to be anti-monopoly rules that frowned on television networks airing shows made by their own studios so channels almost always aired shows made by rival studios. And no, TBS doesn't stream Friends.
  6. That's not for the reunion special. HBOMAX is supposedly spending 85 million a year to stream Friends.
  7. Master of None season 3 is dropping in four days. I haven't seen Aziz Ansari out doing any promotion for it besides a behind the scenes video. Lasseter got fired from the most powerful job in the animated world due to his behavior. The Old Guard was one of the most viewed movies on Netflix the year it came out. We don't know how the Nevers has been faring on HBOMAX but Nielsen HBO ratings are public. There is no reason HBO should be doing a season two renewal when the back half of season one hasn't been filmed yet. Glow season 4 being cancelled was far more complicated then Covid protocols. HBO would have had to cancel the Nevers before it aired if they wanted to blame it on Covid. Covid protocols are on the way out.
  8. Different strokes for different folks. I think that with the addition of FX on Hulu, it has been churning out the best set of originals this year. Devs, Mrs. America, Normal People, Little Fires Everywhere, the Great, and Dave are all good shows.
  9. Huh, I have the plan with ads and and in the normal course of a "half-hour" episode I got 90-120 seconds of ads total. It does seem like the more you watch the fewer ads you get. I've been watching on a desktop and when I turned on an ad blocker the other day I was able to watch several episodes without it even visibly attempting to play an add.
  10. Sounds like you're playing stuff from the Live TV part of Hulu, which is a cable replacement and has ads instead of playing things from the streaming side of the site which is almost entirely ad free (assuming you paid for that tier). I personally think Hulu has the strongest TV show streaming library in the US.
  11. Patreon Mark Smylie published the Barrow back in 2014. Its a grimdark fantasy set in the world of Artesia that Smylie had previously created in a series of graphic novels. As I recall several members of the board were big fans of that book. At this point he's planning on self-publishing the second book. There was a lot of scuttlebutt back then that he wasn't able to publish the second book due to disputes between him and his comic book publisher. He doesn't make mention of it, so maybe those rumors were false.
  12. I had no idea Nigerian God-Punk was a thing but now I do and I'm interested!
  13. I'm planning on getting Marvel Unlimited. Anyone have any run recommendations?
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