jogoso2014

jogoso2014 t1_ixfei0r wrote

It’s possible but someone would have to cancel the rights deal with WBD.

WBD may be happy to end the deal to save money but Disney or Doctor Who producers may not want to pay extra since they’re getting it regardless.

Disney shared rights for Fox movies with HBO so it makes sense they will do that with this barring no further news.

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jogoso2014 t1_ivm5fzf wrote

For example, I grew up on a narrative of Thomas Jefferson being in love with his slave Sally Henming and that romance tends to crossover to to other interracial slave based relationships.

Wild Seed likewise shows what happens when black people actually have the power to change a systemic circumstance.

It’s interesting to see slavery in the context of fantasy or sci-if and Butler makes it feel natural.

Underground Railroad does a great job at it too but that story has nothing to do Butler.

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jogoso2014 t1_ivk4gt2 wrote

It’s part of a series but it’s best to think of it as an anthology as the series covers centuries.

The first book is about two beings with different powers getting together and forming essentially a community and super race.

One of them is clearly a bad guy and the power is cool and scary.

What I love about it, along with Kindred, is that they both change the perspective on the slave narrative from what we typically see.

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jogoso2014 t1_iui6m2q wrote

I thought it was weird they delayed the release.

I’m completely out of the demographic of Royal watchers, but think the Crown is one of the best dramas ever on Netflix.

I guess it helps that I consider it fictionalized anyway.

It’s more interesting than the Royal Family.

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jogoso2014 t1_iu1urjs wrote

Their cloud services are what dragged the stock down. It made less profit than before.

Whether steaming makes them money or not is irrelevant if Wall Street factors that into the price which they do and they had a good quarter on the streaming side.

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