Disney Irish
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No I got what you said, I was just pointing out that a huge budget doesn't preclude one from getting a second or more seasons. Heck look at the LOTR series, almost double what all of these D+ series cost, and everyone hated it but still got a second season and now working on a third and rumored to be getting up to five seasons. By the time that series finishes Amazon will have spent almost $2.5B (maybe more) with a B on the budget, on a streaming series, a single series. They could have paid Peter Jackson and he could have done the entire thing for like a third of that.No you missed what I said. The problem was what the show was. It was new characters in a new timeframe, coming from a medium that most didn't care about. I said even if it was pretty good it wasn't a guarantee of a second season at that price per episode. The difference with Andor is it's related to arguably the most well liked of all Disney star wars. It's getting a bit of a benefit of the doubt. Remember it was supposed be something like 5 seasons. I'm sure if it did better from a viewership standpoint it gets more seasons. But I see why it's stopping at 2.
Sure no one was getting heartburn, but it was talked about. It was a very high budget because of the location shooting and the practical sets. And I'll say it, with a better more reasonable budget, we probably do get 4 or 5 seasons of Andor. And that's why what I'm saying matters. For people like myself, who were really looking forward to more Andor, we get the short end of it. Same goes for Acolyte. For people who were looking forward to see where it goes, to bad for you.
The point is, and I brought it up before, these streaming shows aren't traditional TV shows, they are episodic movies. So the budgets are outrageous, and I agree too high, for a normal TV show. But when considering they are just a movie split up into episodes it makes sense why they end up costing so much.
But make no mistake, as I know you and others assume I'm for these large budgets, I assure you I'm not. I think they are too high, just as I think the movie budgets are too high. But I just think that many including yourself won't like the result if they go back and try to do these series using a traditional TV budget.