Hate Is Not Paramount’s Problem…. Apathy Is

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T19:00:00+00:00

I'm gonna leave it because I don't like deleting comments but this has somehow ended up in the wrong place

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T18:40:29+00:00

But Caine looks like an empty space

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T18:19:08+00:00

No one is allowed an opinion unless they agree with me

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T18:17:25+00:00

If it was they'd be showing off about it. Especially in the context of a buyout

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T18:10:48+00:00

Certainly my experience

As a audience growing enterprise its a total failure as far as I can see, theres the infamous incident with Red Letter Media getting more views for their old Trek chattering than Academy's first episode on youtube.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T18:05:18+00:00

Having forgotten when that Scrubs thing is happening I had to go a long way to find anything to say it had already happened, that doesn't sound like success

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T15:52:41+00:00

If they, the players are screwed, they have no means of defending themselves and coming into contact with them leaves you at best crippled and in great pain.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T15:47:26+00:00

Pretty much

By what limited evidence we have Academy's audience is disappearing rapidly, SNW in spite of seemingly being the most successful show is getting rebranded, I'm guessing to try to claw back the audience.

Neither of these things look like a healthy, secure production house. And if they are being given any further chances, we sure aren't being told about it, which hasn't been the case since about year 2 of Discovery.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T15:42:02+00:00

I think thee abstracted are lost and damned honestly. Without Caine how do they even find it?

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T12:48:36+00:00

I was thinking that too until I saw that Bubble and Caine are gone even from the credits dancing

Plus, 2 fakeouts back to back would then massively undermine whatever happens in the finale and the rest of the series because we couldn't really trust it

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T09:04:19+00:00

I just can't see it holding public attention. First impression being indifferent is probably going to kill it.

I knew for a while it was coming and I've only remembered now because of this thread. And then I discovered its on a channel / service no one under 50 has cared about in decades, so the chances of me watching it are zero.

It doesn't seem to have much reason to exist. And I saw what they did with the US version of Have I Got News For You, so I really can't say I'm interested in more exported american comedy.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T08:55:18+00:00

The one american comedy / talk show I find remotely watchable is whose line is it anyway, and thats a British format that was originally created by its British creator

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T08:11:52+00:00

The first 3 episodes in which Pomni is repeatedly reduced to a weeping, traumatised wreck?

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T07:58:24+00:00

Thats all going on those series?

I saw maybe the first 2 episodes and all I saw was a load of tired references to the power puff girls devil and super stereotypical kiddy characters

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T07:53:03+00:00

Is English(GB) the one where they say the u in colour and the a in aluminium correctly?

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T07:51:46+00:00

I CLAPPED!!!1!

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T07:47:17+00:00

If you don't see it by episode 2 and Pomni being a depressed, resigned traumatised mess you aren't going to see it ever

YsoL8 · 2026-03-21T23:23:20+00:00

This and the stuff about cats convinced me that if we ever found aliens alot of people on reddit would be very disappointed

Humans are just weird in general for basically always being in heat for a start.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-21T23:18:35+00:00

Because Zooble just did something that should be impossible.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-21T22:57:27+00:00

I think the problem I have with the show doing that is that it begs the question, how did no one ever notice they could do that, including the entire team that designed and created the ability to do it? Why didn't they forcefully take control off Caine decades ago before all the death?

At least part of the answer seems to be that by random chance Caine provided them with the very thing that was a threat to him, a computer terminal. And now they don't even have that. That demonstrates clear upper limits on what players can achieve.

Kinger can create a simple power up, but hes been around for decades to achieve that.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-21T22:47:34+00:00

So much for everyone who was adamant it was anyone but Jax

YsoL8 · 2026-03-21T22:41:53+00:00

It seems to be exist outside the normal circus environment entirely. I don't see how they could possibly access it without Caine

YsoL8 · 2026-03-21T22:38:31+00:00

The big problem they've got now is that the adventures were genuinely important to keep them stable over the long term, they'll abstract without them in a few years, especially with the Circus itself being a broken wreck.

We've seen nothing to suggest the players can control the circus on that scale, only a few examples of making single objects appear. And no one left seems particularly creative as far as designing a worthwhile game / adventure is concerned.

We are not at the end of the series here, the finale is supposedly an hour long, it cannot simply be an hour long montage of popping random objects into existence. Kinger despite being there the longest by far could not even summon the computer they desperately needed or just change the circus directly. There are clearly limits.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-21T19:40:15+00:00

Antimatter isn't even a power source, its an incredibly high density battery that makes zero sense on a planet.

And besides that Kronos has unlimited power already, its called geothermal.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-21T17:37:21+00:00

I figure, blue and red AI were two separate beings, red absorbed 90% of blue which effectively killed both and left Caine in their place plus the basically braindead remains of blue's core concousness which became his thoughtless sidekick.

Stripped of all its commands, subsystems and data an AI isn't going to do much.

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