Amazon isn’t interested in making a show that fans will like. The assumption is that fans will watch the show anyway. They want a show that the popcorn eating masses will eat up like Game of Thrones. This exact same mentality is how we got all of the current Star Trek, all of the current Star Wars, all of the current Lord of the Rings, etc.…
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Amazon is deeply enshittified. I mean they always were a bad employer, but for a while they were at least good to their customers.
It's the typical "we have achieved market dominance; the only way to keep growing revenue is to cut corners" problem.
Shitty cheap China slop in the shop, shitty mainstream production in the movie section.
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