RE: Veronica Mars: Your favorite blonde highschool private dick is back in action!
I wish, I'm a big fan of Kristen Bell. Just been a long time ago since I watched the whole thing, in a very short time, in it's entirety. Ah, the binge. Weeds was NO sleep.
I'd like to think it's all about the money, but am afraid it is other reasons sometimes. And as varied as to reason. Though I think Good Girls Revolt was backlash to some of the politics going on.
I suppose it IS expensive to produce a show. So it needs to really take off, if you want it to make any money. To me, it's the story of art since we first started doodling on cave walls with charcoal sticks. If there's not enough money in it to keep it going, the quality seems irrelevant to the powers that be. Though I'm pretty sure V.M. had a huge following, and lots of input vs. canceling. So what gives, I dunno.
Can't say as I'm a big reality show fan. Haven't seen any, actually. But good movies, I can watch all day long. Yikes. Plus, they've put Green Acres on for the summer. Uh oh...double yikes.
Due to recent stories that have come out about various things that have happened behind the scenes in Hollywood, you do kinda have to wonder how many shows fell apart because someone was a creep or an asshole. It's not like everyone's professional all the time in real life. Sometimes it just becomes impossible to work with some people. Maybe one of the actors has a drug problem. Humans be humans yo.
I think I kinda prefer thinking that it's all the fault of idiots in positions of power though, canceling shows because they can't recognize quality.
But there are certain situations that just don't make financial sense though. Like when they canceled Firefly. The show didn't get popular nearly fast enough. But then, after that, fans got together and pretty much forced them to do a movie...which was then the top film in theaters for over a month. It was a bang out success. So why didn't they bring it back? Kinda does feel like maybe we aren't hearing everything. Maybe there were problems that we didn't hear about.
Does kinda beg the question why there aren't more non-profit film companies focusing on art. After all, it's actually fully possible to still make a shit ton even at a non-profit. In some cases, you kinda have to raise how much you're paying people, since you're not allowed to make profit. You could also still make agreements with investors for them to make profit, even if your company just rolls all their profit back into production and salaries.
I think the best thing we can possibly do is figure out a way for us in the crypto world to get in...because there are two things we love, decentralization and profit, and I don't think it would be impossible to figure out a way to make something that allows us to support artistic vision and profit from it at the same time as keeping centralized entities from ruining it.
The other option is if we could somehow get a ton of people together to support things with our collective wallets.
Those could be the same thing though.