Nothing new really. A series producer asks fans to watch his show.
PIC was always meant to be a three-season series, and DIS is the first show of the Kurtzman era to air, so it makes sense its the first one to end to make way for new shows. Dropping PRO from Paramount+ before season 2 is surprising though.
What a foul website. My adblockers aren't up to the task. What is the eventual conclusion of the article? It is impossible to get past all the popups, and the video autoplaying was the last straw.
@Thisfox @startrek McMahan summary quote: "So, if you love Lower Decks as much as I do, I would say make sure to watch it and get people to watch it now. A letter writing campaign after a show gets canceled, it’s helpful, but what’s more helpful is campaigning to get more eyes on the show when it’s airing because it gives me the ability to push for more seasons."
Disquieting nonetheless.
Lower Decks has successfully brought in new viewers to the franchise and led them into other shows. It’s also held viewers who just signed up for Picard.
As the most successful digital animated comedy on Paramount Plus in 2022, and with animated comedies being a key attractor for younger viewers, it seems like the show shouldn’t be at risk.
It’s not like they can get another animated Trek comedy off the ground in less than two full calendar years. More Lower Decks is successfully threading the needle between attracting new young viewers and pleasing older core fans. The Very Short Trek experiment was largely a failure with all but narrow slice of American fans in a narrow demographic. It showed that comforting those fans will alienate those they already have.
Paramount if you pull an Inside Job and kill LD I SWEAR I'm going to do some things. I don't know what yet, but I'll do them!
Damn I really do like the lemmy community more. On other social media aggregators, people are flipping the fuck out.
The more reasonable discourse about this article, on Lemmy is just healthier for everyone's mental state.
That being said, I tend to agree this is a nothing burger and Leer Decks is likely fine for a few more years. It's a low budget show and the writing is on point making a broad range of fans happy. I've heard this show has actually brought in a lot of new Trek fans too.
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