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Apple Shares Teaser Trailer for Sci-Fi Thriller 'Invasion,' Debuting on Apple TV+ October 22
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Everyone's got their own opinion/preferences but you are the first person on the entire Internet or IRL that hasn't said Ted Lasso was great and actually made them feel a little happier or better about humanity just for watching it. True story.
Unfortunately that hurts Netflix's economics so I bet they're going to start going the way of Disney+ and HBO with weekly releases as well.
Disney+ is smart (from a business perspective) in that they're doing weekly releases, as well as keeping up releases with new shows. Big Marvel and Star Wars fan, so they're playing it smart with WandaVision, followed by Falcon & Winter Soldier and now Loki all strung out over a few months. I personally don't mind weekly releases as it allows my friends to all catch up for discussion, but it doesn't help with my wallet though...
No just venting some frustration. Might as well have some fun with it.
Cheaper sets is my guess.
Why would people always think hypothetical aliens invading earth would have very superior technology? Maybe they’ll just barely make it like we currently do. If we ever get to mars we won’t be this super advanced, mind-controlling civilization. The first humans will probably barely make it so an alien counterpart might be in a similar situation.
You know, you don’t have to watch them all at once. But for those that want to, why not?
Your way doesn’t give them an option, whereas their way still gives you options.
They don't have enough content that I care about to manage to keep me subscribed though. I'll watch Loki when they finish the 6th episode. I don't think Disney+ has anything else I want to watch right now though. Disney+ does well because lots of families have children. How many times can you rewatch The Mandalorian or The Rise of Skywalker before you get bored. Kids don't get bored rewatching and want to rewatch things over and over.
Sure it does. Apple doesn’t have the library of Netflix and wants you to stay for more than a month. HBO, Disney, Amazon are all doing the same thing for new shows created just for the network. I don’t like it, but I understand it.
It's very likely that any species that can traverse 100s to 1000s of lightyears in a reasonable time are far, far beyond our technology. It is possible that we would get invaded by a species that just entered the age of interstellar travel but what would be the odds that they find us and attack? It is much more likely a species that has had interstellar travel for a very long time would find us.
Having said that, interstellar wars don't make a lot of sense and it's likely that any species technologically advanced enough to reach Earth would have better things to do with their time.
Literally all streaming services other than Netflix release content on a week basis. It keeps subscribers from canceling their membership after binge watching their favorite show in a day.
Because they have technology capable of travelling light years?
actually, maybe a good story would be a bunch of aliens that have travelled for generations inside a giant asteroid, it comes here and whereas their original plan was to drop rocks until we were extinct so they could move in and set up shop without any interference, they had become agoraphobic and believed anything outside the asteroid was not real. set up a parking orbit and established trade relations with North Korea because they are just as insular.
maybe there isn’t enough challenge in that plot though
And no it’s not like in Independence Day that the whole world unites to fight back. And some world leaders will claim the invasion is a fake. And others might say that the aliens are friends. Some people may even protest that it’s their right to get killed by the aliens.
I'm assuming i won't see any aliens until like episode 5 or so... I hate that.
Other than that the show looks really good. I'm looking forward to it.
Other than that the show looks really good. I'm looking forward to it.
Discovery is a CBS original production so they control release dates.
“Stuff blowing up.”
Looks like another remake of War of the Worlds.
The alien at the end even looked like a Martian tripod.
Looks like another remake of War of the Worlds.
The alien at the end even looked like a Martian tripod.
Haha true.
Thanks to people's ever-shrinking attention span... they have to show a 5-second pre-trailer before the trailer.
It's because people already have their finger over the "Skip Ad" button. It's like a desperate plea to keep watching.
I started 5 series, most prominently The Morning Show, all I saw was clean tables and compliancy. Ted Lasso was good fun though. But also as clean as Favreau's speeches.