If not for Dean narrating from the "future," part of it could have just been that someone went back in time and changed things, with the divergence point being someone giving John the note and key that he was given in the first episode.

Yeah, I agree that some are less awkward than others. I think pretty any Disney/Pixar movie wouldn't be too bad, and some franchise movies also wouldn't be, but others would be on a case-by-case basis pretty much depending on how childish they looked in terms of content.

> A lot of older Kung Fu films were dubbed into English by having the scripts massively re-written so the new words kinda matched up with the actors’ mouth movements. But the subs often seem to follow the original scripts, which can be confusing if any plot points or names got changed.

This is the normal way for dubs vs. subs to be treated in general; it's the case for pretty much everything today.

I think feeling awkward about going to the movies alone is kind of fair if you happen to like animation and want to go to a "kids'" movie, but otherwise I agree.

For the most part yes, and I unironically think that some of the best shows of the last few years have been kids' cartoons, too.

While true, you'd need some pretty specific evidence if you're trying to indicate discrimination; there are obviously other explanations, like the guy just not really caring about Covid safety in comparison to getting the production done.

> That’s why previously on has to exist.

Wasn't that more because they wanted people to be able to just jump in with some context for things even if they hadn't been watching previous episodes of the show?

I agree to a point, though I also think it could easily be analogized to the release of books in a book series, which often take even longer between releases. And just reading episode summaries is usually enough to refresh my memory.

Is this technically the first time a show cancelled by a streaming service was picked up by another streaming service? Cobra Kai was sort of just allowed to shop without exactly being cancelled, and the only other similar instances I can think of are the Quibi shows getting picked up by Roku and The Cyanide & Happiness Show moving from Seeso to VRV, but neither of those were exactly "cancelled"; it was just caused by the original service itself shutting down.

> I could see a superhero academy show, with the comic book series twist, being a good show to watch.

IIRC DC is doing this, unless it's been scrapped.

Netflix, and it's no contest whatsoever. Hulu has a few great shows, but Netflix has probably over 10 times as many great shows as Hulu does.

> I don't know of any case of the opposite (streaming --> network tv)

Offhand:

One Day at a Time and Tuca & Bertie were each (separately) picked up by cable networks for a new season or seasons after Netflix cancelled them.

BoJack Horseman's syndication rights were picked up by Comedy Central.

Universal Kids has aired several of the animated DreamWorks shows that were initially made for Netflix.

The Mysterious Benedict Society show was initially only a Disney+ Original, but will now be airing on Disney Channel the day before new episodes are added to Disney+.

A few cases of Disney+ or Hulu originals airing an episode or a season on TV as a promotional thing (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Solar Opposites, etc.).

But yeah, I don't think any of those situations would be what the OP would be talking about.

> Give me an example of a show killer? First time I've read this term.

I think they're referring to when a network intentionally moves a show to a bad time slot in a way that makes it look like they were trying to get the ratings to drop so they'd have an excuse to cancel it. Not sure how that would apply to streaming services, though.

> Why hasn't there been any legal action against streaming services (and how can we make some happen)

On what basis would the action even be taken? Nothing you've described is illegal.

It's a great show and definitely deserves more attention than it's gotten.

If Animorphs would have to be adapted as live-action, then Animorphs. Though I'd prefer an animated adaptation.

> Hulu with ads is for pay and really successful

At least two caveats to that, though:

1. A lot of the people on that tier probably got it for $0.99 a month or another promo deal that they've had. (They never have promo deals on the ad-free tier.)

2. Hulu started out without an ad-free tier and only later added one. There are probably still a decent amount of people who just never upgraded, but that doesn't necessarily mean they wouldn't have taken the ad-free version instead if it was available from the beginning. (There's a difference between deciding to pay more to not get ads when you had apparently already been okay with dealing with them vs. deciding to intentionally see ads in order to save a few bucks.)

"Disposing of" something doesn't inherently mean destroying it; it just means getting rid of it from their perspective in some manner. In this case, it would probably just mean it would go to a museum or something.

Sometimes I think about quitting SpongeBob, but then ending up going back to it. If I ever did fully quit it, that would be the one, I suppose. (I have possibly quit its spinoffs, though; those are somewhat in limbo for now.) Otherwise I would generally watch only one season of a show at most before quitting; it's rare that I would quit a show after that.

Lost Ollie was really good. I haven't seen any of the others.

Either Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake or Clone High if either ends up coming out in 2023; I would guess at least one of the two probably will if not both. (Hopefully Clone High is even still happening at all; I don't think there's been any actual confirmation since HBO Max started scrapping stuff...)

Edit: Oh, and Futurama.

> Every channel has basically fallen to replaying the cheapest thing they can make or whatever they can get I syndication.

I don't think that's quite it. I think the actual reason is that reruns aren't appointment TV at all anymore, so when new episodes of stuff aren't airing, they just constantly play the most popular things they have the rights to because they're the most likely to get people to stop on the channel and watch rather than keeping on channel surfing. Play a several-hour-long block of something popular and you'll catch people during that whole period and maybe keep some of them for a while; play a bunch of different less popular things and your odds of catching people go way down, as do your odds of keeping the people you did catch.

It's getting ridiculous.