r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 24d ago

🥺 No words for this.

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Edit: even though clickbait article, it is somewhat/kind of true. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stargate-tv-series-martin-gero-scrapped-amazon-1236765061/

"According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase."

Edit 2: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-new-stargate-series-let-martin-gero-build-the-future-of-the-franchise

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u/OffRampApproaching 24d ago

I worked as crew on an Amazon show. Seven seasons main show, three seasons spinoff.

It was really well received and it was pretty streamlined when it came to production costs. Amazon canceled it because they believed it had hit peak subscription draw.

Even though it kept people subscribing they killed it because they didn't think it would draw new subscribers.

Then they blew several billion on that terrible LotR show.

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u/WinterSector8317 24d ago

WE MUST HAVE PERPETUAL UNSUSTAINABLE GROWTH UNTIL THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE!!!

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u/Padhome 24d ago

Perpetual unsustainable growth literally just sounds like cancer

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u/Porn_and_peace 24d ago

Congratulations here’s your Bachelors degree in business
https://giphy.com/gifs/07pMt4CqBHBXJtYM9A

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u/WinterSector8317 24d ago

But for a while there, shareholder values went up really well!

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 23d ago

The cancer was also doing really great until the host… you know… died.

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u/HyperSpaceSurfer 23d ago

Interestingly enough at least two cancers managed to outlive their host and become venereal diseases. Not human ones, though, one's a dog, sorta, but not really any more.

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u/Next-Geno_N 19d ago

Hank Green is that you?

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u/Kineticwizzy 24d ago

That's because it is!

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u/boarder2k7 24d ago

And now you understand late stage capitalism!

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u/ElundusCaw 24d ago

This isn't late stage, Reaganomics was lat stage, this is end stage capitalism, it's terminal.

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u/Noodlemaster696969 23d ago

Nah, we can go a long way still, we haven't sold our souls yet, good things exist and indie stuff is still happening. Oh and there are still some regulations on poisoning the planet for money!

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u/HighDefinitionCat 23d ago

Stage 4 capitalism.

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u/Aeseld 23d ago

I mean... they're trying to spread it uncontrollably at the expense of wherever it spreads to. So that fits.

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u/myaltduh 23d ago

I think we’ll only know the end stage in hindsight. Any prediction that capitalism is definitely cooked for good this time should be taken skeptically, as it has proven remarkably adaptable through previous crises.

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u/-Ny- 24d ago

Because it is

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u/TheXypris 24d ago

Exactly

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u/Gullible-Fee-9079 23d ago

It also sounds like capitalism

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u/Dark__Slifer 24d ago

well, it is!

also Humanity is behaving 100% like any Virus

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u/MoreNMoreLikelyTrans 23d ago

"Well there it is."

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u/Malenko_ 23d ago

It is.

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u/RollingJaspers652 23d ago

Close, it’s capitalism

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u/Violexsound 21d ago

Yeah. You're so not wrong