He does meet and fight John at the end, who I was referring to. But in every episode prior they never actually meet. At the police station he is juuust out of view and Frank is leaning in his chair to try and see him. At some other point they have a literal fire fight with approximate knowledge of where the other is but no visibility so they’re just blind firing through wall. Maybe some other choice moments.
It’s a very different choice than Fifth Element where their experiences are tangential to each other. The punisher guys are in active conflict, they just never get the opportunity to actually see each other face to face. Until the end. They go to some length with the camera shots to convey this.
Idk, I thought it was cool. But ultimately not capitalized on.
Well there you go; easy peasy. But actually, I just checked how long it took season 2 of The Punisher to appear on a particular torrent site; it was all up in 720p and 1080p in less than 10 minutes. There are better re-releases later[1], but that seems to imply that the pirates are just downloading it straight, no screengrab hacks needed.
[1] E.g. Marvels.The.Punisher.S02.1080p.NF.WEBRip.x265.10bit.HDR.DDP5.1.Atmos-DEFLATE[rartv] (30GB) (1 hour 38 minutes after release time)
There are two films I want to watch releasing this weekend and season 2 of The Punisher, those alone pay for it for the month, they've had some corkers in the last year - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was brilliant.
Our house has both Netflix and Prime Video and that about covers me, my partner and the little boy (Trollhunters is fantastic if you have a child in the house also created for Netflix).
Star Wars is already the movies, plus two animated series (Clone Wars and Rebels). You can look at the Marvel strategy to see where it could go, with multiple movies a year plus multiple tv/streaming series (Agents of Shield, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Legion, Defenders, Gifted, Inhumans, Punisher, Runaways). If all that Marvel content moves to Disney streaming, plus new Star Wars content, plus their kids TV shows, plus Pixar, ABC, and ESPN, then you have a package that is really strong.
The future is still no “ad revenue”, at least in the traditional sense.
They clearly sell rights for prominent placement of products in TV shows that have no commercials. It’s kind of funny sometimes (e.g. in The Punisher there was an interview scene with a prominently placed can of “Country Time” lemonade, and the thing magically rotated each time the camera moved so the full logo on the can was always visible). And this is fine; it’s silly but it doesn’t detract from the enjoyment of the show.
Conversely, the aggressive nature of traditional commercials has been destroying regular TV. The commercials themselves are stupid of course but networks behave obnoxiously and desperately too. I recently decided to watch an old Star Trek: TNG episode (where I definitely remember how the episode went) and they did some serious editing to jam in as many commercials as they could! They honestly damaged the story line: at times, characters would directly refer to something that I know was in the original cut of the episode but omitted from the oh-god-make-more-room-for-commercials version. Hey, networks: when you start removing plot elements or making obvious edits that even break the background music, you are being desperate. When your ad for the next show is now taking up like 1/6 of my television screen and never goes away, you are being desperate. Don’t CRANK up the volume during commercials and make them go on and on and on for many, many minutes. And don’t disrespect the hundreds of people who work on TV shows by making it impossible to read credits.
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He does meet and fight John at the end, who I was referring to. But in every episode prior they never actually meet. At the police station he is juuust out of view and Frank is leaning in his chair to try and see him. At some other point they have a literal fire fight with approximate knowledge of where the other is but no visibility so they’re just blind firing through wall. Maybe some other choice moments.
It’s a very different choice than Fifth Element where their experiences are tangential to each other. The punisher guys are in active conflict, they just never get the opportunity to actually see each other face to face. Until the end. They go to some length with the camera shots to convey this.
Idk, I thought it was cool. But ultimately not capitalized on.
Well there you go; easy peasy. But actually, I just checked how long it took season 2 of The Punisher to appear on a particular torrent site; it was all up in 720p and 1080p in less than 10 minutes. There are better re-releases later[1], but that seems to imply that the pirates are just downloading it straight, no screengrab hacks needed.
[1] E.g. Marvels.The.Punisher.S02.1080p.NF.WEBRip.x265.10bit.HDR.DDP5.1.Atmos-DEFLATE[rartv] (30GB) (1 hour 38 minutes after release time)
There are two films I want to watch releasing this weekend and season 2 of The Punisher, those alone pay for it for the month, they've had some corkers in the last year - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was brilliant.
Our house has both Netflix and Prime Video and that about covers me, my partner and the little boy (Trollhunters is fantastic if you have a child in the house also created for Netflix).
Star Wars is already the movies, plus two animated series (Clone Wars and Rebels). You can look at the Marvel strategy to see where it could go, with multiple movies a year plus multiple tv/streaming series (Agents of Shield, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Legion, Defenders, Gifted, Inhumans, Punisher, Runaways). If all that Marvel content moves to Disney streaming, plus new Star Wars content, plus their kids TV shows, plus Pixar, ABC, and ESPN, then you have a package that is really strong.
The future is still no “ad revenue”, at least in the traditional sense.
They clearly sell rights for prominent placement of products in TV shows that have no commercials. It’s kind of funny sometimes (e.g. in The Punisher there was an interview scene with a prominently placed can of “Country Time” lemonade, and the thing magically rotated each time the camera moved so the full logo on the can was always visible). And this is fine; it’s silly but it doesn’t detract from the enjoyment of the show.
Conversely, the aggressive nature of traditional commercials has been destroying regular TV. The commercials themselves are stupid of course but networks behave obnoxiously and desperately too. I recently decided to watch an old Star Trek: TNG episode (where I definitely remember how the episode went) and they did some serious editing to jam in as many commercials as they could! They honestly damaged the story line: at times, characters would directly refer to something that I know was in the original cut of the episode but omitted from the oh-god-make-more-room-for-commercials version. Hey, networks: when you start removing plot elements or making obvious edits that even break the background music, you are being desperate. When your ad for the next show is now taking up like 1/6 of my television screen and never goes away, you are being desperate. Don’t CRANK up the volume during commercials and make them go on and on and on for many, many minutes. And don’t disrespect the hundreds of people who work on TV shows by making it impossible to read credits.