Reposting an old post I made that is more relevant now than ever
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Amazon has financed the Expanse. That’s it. The evil fuckers have zero credit to the quality of the TV adaptation. It was two seasons at SyFy - then, sadly but unsurprisingly, SyFy was unable to turn it into a source of revenue (Hi Firefly :( ) and amazon financed it because the shitbucket in chief at amazon is an Expanse fan.
SyFy was unable to turn it into a source of revenue
I feel like Amazon totally missed the boat on this too.
Like, where was the merch? why didn’t they capitalize on the popularity of it? where were the T-shirts, the cosplay outfits, the toys, the model kits? you know the Expanse fanbase would buy model kits.
They have a fucking online retail store, which they control the advertising on, plus every possible contact in the manufacturing industry they could possibly need. Promoting merch for the series would’ve been so fucking easy, and producing it would’ve cost them next to nothing compared to the show production.
Well - I don’t spend time on what amazon may or may not have missed, that business is as evil as a corporation can get, and the asshole owner can fuck right off to hell. He doesn’t suddenly become a good person just because he saved one TV show that I liked, and for entirely selfish reasons.
He doesn’t suddenly become a good person just because he saved one TV show that I liked
Oh no, certainly not.
My point is, it should’ve been super easy for them to further capitalize on this IP, but they did nothing instead.
Yeah, I wasn’t disputing that point, just using the opportunity to bash amazon ;)
Produced by just means “paid for by,” anyway.
So there’s a chance it can still suck if Amazon pays the wrong people to make it.
Produced by just means “paid for by,” anyway.
The problem is when they abruptly cut off funding and sit on the IP indefinitely.
That’s what they did to James Bond .
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I thought James Bond is special though? The family still gets to approve the script, so the issue is that Amazon wants to milk it with a crap story, and the family says no this isn’t good enough.
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Yeah looks like you are right. Appears that they just got control of it in Feb.
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So Amazon sits on the IP because Bezos doesn’t get his way
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