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[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 182 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Do you have a source other than...like..fuckin tiktok?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It was taken off like a year ago, maybe longer. The last season bombed so they took the whole thing down to avoid paying residuals. Think it was even before the merger.

Which just highlights how stupid the system is. Pay residuals, but pay them based on amount of viewing hours. If no one watches a show, there's still no reason to remove it.

Currently an expensive show no one watches can just bleed money.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Gotta love Hollywood accounting.

[–] JelloBrains@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

WB Discovery is still getting their cut from Westworld, Raised by Wolves, and a dozen or so others by licensing it out to The Roku Channel streaming service of all things. So those actors went from getting scraps from HBO Max to probably next to nothing from Roku. I don't know if that's worse than having the content completely removed or not considering Roku is like Pluto TV and airs things more like cable.

[–] Amazed@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I feel like GoT should be taken down for the same reason then. But then I realize that maybe the last two seasons were still successful on some level.

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man, everything after season 1 was pretty bad lmao

[–] wombatula@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You know I heard S2 was bad, so I didn't watch it when it came out but planned on eventually giving it a chance, but this thread and specifically this post just convinced me to never watch it and just keep the memory of Westworld being good in my head lol.

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, comparatively season 2 is worse than the first one but not a massive shitshow. Season 3 though, oh fucking boy. I'd say maybe watch the second season just for some sort of closure, but then definitely stop!

[–] wombatula@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Duly noted, ty.

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just verified on the Max app

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wonder if Crave still has it in Canada.

Edit: It's still there for me.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's not on my fuckin TV anymore. Had to pirate the last couple of seasons.

[–] wviana@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 11 months ago

My wife ask me same thing. At least here in my country I couldn't find it.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I know where I can stream it from . . .

Anyhoo, I'm sad WW went the way it did. The first season was pretty fantastic. The second season wasn't horrible but seemed a little aimless. I heard the third and I guess the fourth seasons continued declining so I haven't bothered watching them.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I’ve seen them all and I wish I had stopped at the end of the first season. It was so good.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I stopped after season 2 and choose to only remember the first season, since ending to season 1 is a pretty satisfying wrap up the series. Season 1 is a fantastic standalone mini series.

[–] ParkedInReverse@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I forced my way through S3. What a shit show that became. Completely lost its way.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Season 4 actually had a lot of good stuff going on with it. I was real salty they never got to properly end the show.

[–] ParkedInReverse@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Well, I got through S3... might as well take your word for it and give it a go, lol.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 0 points 11 months ago

All I saw was S1, and I felt like the ending was pretty unsatisfying. Like it was leading up to a S2 that never happened.

[–] AWizard_ATrueStar@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

Same. First season was so good and the second season….I don’t even know. I didn’t bother with the rest. I didn’t even know there are 4 seasons. What a shame.

[–] inasaba@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's where I stopped. It was a perfect miniseries. I saw there was going to be a second season and I just rolled my eyes and resolved not to watch it. The first season ended perfectly to me.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

I had hoped they would tell a story from another world perspective, e.g. Samurai world or something. Instead we got burn everything to the ground and try to take over the world lameness. It suffered from poor writing, terrible dialog, and no sense of direction. I wanted something cerebral not action for the sake of action. That’s also my take on most new sci-fi unfortunately. They take away the sci and slam in fantasy as if it’s interchangeable.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

This is good to know. I started 2 but didn’t go more than a few episodes because it was just…boring? I did wonder what I was missing, but haven’t thought about it in awhile.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really enjoyed the last two seasons

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does it end on a cliffhanger or wrapped up nicely?

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Wrapped up nicely but definitely that kind of esoteric weirdness present throughout the entire series

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago
[–] 8tomat8@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I bought their subscription just to watch it... A month after they decided to remove it. It was the main reason for me to set up my home media server with torrent. They've got what they wanted, I pay pirates instead of then

[–] Steveanonymous@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Got mp4 on the NAS m, got hard case blue rays on the shelf

Never forget what they took from us

[–] ethcat@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't watch TikTok anymore

[–] Madagarian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

Never have.

[–] M137@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] wviana@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sorry. English is not my first language. Can some one tell me what's wrong?

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Streams should be stream, that's literally it.

[–] prole@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Eh it's really not that bad. I knew exactly what you were trying to convey, and didn't even recognize any errors in the title until I saw that comment and reread it.

Regardless, you pluralized "streams," when in that case it should just be "stream". As a native English speaker, I don't think I could explain the actual "rule" or whatever, it's just automatic in my brain. In fact, I don't even think I'm right that you "pluralized" it. I think you just added an 's' so it changes the form or some shit... Man I don't know.

So it would be like:

Does not stream

Or maybe something like:

No longer streams

If you want to keep the 's'.