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Final Space
2018 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by Olan Rogers, David Sacks
AnimationActionAdventureScience FictionFantasyComedy
An astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick Mooncake embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of “Final Space,” the last point in the universe, if it actually does exist.
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> Happily. I have more access to content now than I have ever had before; we live in a golden age of access to video content. I can't imagine a rational argument for going back to the era of physical media.
Please show me where I can access The Witches (2020) by Robert Zemeckis?
Or the Willow TV show from 2022
Or Final Space
Or Star Trek: Prodigy
Or Westworld
The shows and movies just disappear off streaming because some executive did the math and they'll save money by just taking things off the internet.
This is why you buy anything you want to see again or even show to your kids later on as a physical copy. (Or do the yarr-thing and hold on to the digital copy on your own hardware)
What he should have written is "I've never experienced it in the last 20 years of purchasing digital media, am not acquainted with anyone who has even though most people I know purchase digital media, and it is only been reported a handful of times".
Unless it happens a lot but doesn't get any publicity, which seems pretty unlikely as there are too many widely read forums where people it happened to would report it, and too many publications like Ars, Tech Dirt, The Register, Torrent Freak, and many others that would jump on any such story, we must indeed conclude that it is not common.
The important question is not if it is common but rather will it become common?
Discovery is part of Warner, which is currently being run by someone who will kill content for the tax write offs. He killed "Final Space" for a tax write off, cancelling future season and pulling existing seasons from streaming and sale. And last year they killed a movie, "Acme vs. Coyote", that they had completed and scheduled for release because they decided they'd rather write it off.
Because of that right now I would not buy any streaming content from Warner. In the specific case of Discovery it looks like they are just pulling it from other platforms so that it can be exclusive to services they own, like Max and Discovery+.
That probably means it is safe for now to buy Warner owned content through Warner owned platforms, but I'd worry that in the future they will decide to write it off and it will leave their own platforms too.
> The main reason that I subscribed to it was for its broad range of exclusive animated content, like Close Enough, Final Space, Infinity Train, and Adventure Time: Distant Lands. All but one of those have been removed from Max now (I guess for tax writeoffs and avoiding royalties?), and with their recent price increase for a bunch of awful reality TV shows, I'm done.
The depressing US tradition of animation (especially the 2D variety) being treated as third-rate or worse continues.
Honestly I think I am going to cancel my Max subscription.
The main reason that I subscribed to it was for its broad range of exclusive animated content, like Close Enough, Final Space, Infinity Train, and Adventure Time: Distant Lands. All but one of those have been removed from Max now (I guess for tax writeoffs and avoiding royalties?), and with their recent price increase for a bunch of awful reality TV shows, I'm done.
I do not know that there's anything I care about less than "My 600 Pound Life", and no matter how much they try and get me to watch that or "Pawn Stars", I find it unlikely that that's going to change no matter how many times they try and convince me otherwise.
I'm generally all for paying for my media (I have a lot of blu-rays, I own the entire series of Adventure Time and Adventure Time: Distant Lands on blu-ray), but I almost feel like piracy is kind of a civic duty at this point. If these corporations are going to make it impossible to watch their media legitimately, then the community needs to step and preserve the shows themselves.
And maybe we should resist programs that are "exclusive to streaming".
With apologies for linking to Facebook, the creator of Final Space (Olan Rogers) has posted publicly about the news he was given that Final Space was being removed from all platforms, with licenses not being renewed, and (if he's to be believed, which...he's been trustworthy in the past) that the show was basically produced for "tax write-off" purposes: https://www.facebook.com/olanrogersofficial/posts/pfbid02fuCC57SqRKjFZZX9dtMvBPewAS3ZKmMALqsiHwcoxdNWdrwwyGXnRhSYo3Sto7hil
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Five years of my life. Three seasons. Blood, sweat, and tears... ....became a tax write-off for the network that owns Final Space. Yup. That's it. That's why it's disappeared everywhere in the USA. Five years of work vanished. When the license is up internationally, Netflix will take it down, and then it will be gone forever. There are no more physical copies of S1 and S2, and no physical copies of Season 3 were ever made. Your memory of Final Space will be the only proof it ever existed.
Warm movies:
- Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019)
- Leap! (2016)
And for the series you are really missing out on:
- Final Space (the first season only)
> Even today, adult American cartoons are almost entirely "sitcom" format.
Agreed. Check out Final Space. It relies a bit on comedy in the beginning but grows into a drama. Give it a few episodes.