Leokumi Loser

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Here's the thing I need people to understand about Netflix's business model (and the business model of most of the entertainment industry right now)

Step 1: Greenlight a new show, but because you're nervous that something completely original might bomb, attach a preexisting franchise to it. Regardless of if that IP fits with the story you're trying to tell or not, you can at least guarantee fans of the preexisting IP will give it a shot.

Step 2: Bait the preexisting fans of that franchise into consuming your show to juice your early release numbers and push it to people who have never heard of the preexisting IP before

Step 3: Congratulations! By the time fans of the preexisting IP realize that the show doesn't respect the thing it's wearing as a skin suit, you've already pushed the show to the top so the normies who have never heard of preexisting IP are curious enough to watch it. As long as the show is good enough they will probably stick around long enough to justify making a few more seasons of it so they can continue profiting off of it.

Step 4: Discard fans of preexisting IP because you no longer need them. It's nice for the corporation if some of them like it and stick around, but normies and hate watchers will prop up your numbers from here on out.

In this case it's DMC, but just think of all the remake reboot reimagining recycled things that have come out in the last ten years or so. Studios are terrified of taking risks on new IPs so they just continue recycling the ol' reliables. Sometimes that's fine, because the people making the new thing respect the source material and genuinely want to do a good job, and sometimes it's terrible because they're just making slop so a big corporation's line can go up. Netflix makes slop, and they have for a looooong time now. There's literally directives in Netflix writer's rooms to "write like the audience is going to be playing on their phone the whole time." They don't respect you enough to create content (dare I say art) that they expect you to actually pay attention to. They're creating background noise for you to use as you scroll social media. That's the definition of slop.

It's fair for fans of DMC to be hurt and annoyed and upset by the blatant exploitation done to them by a corporation that was clearly never intending to respect the thing they love. They handed the series to a guy who explicitly stated that he hates that the series didn't die, because the only thing he liked about making a DMC anime is that he might get to be the Godsavior of DMC who we would all bow to and thank for reviving our favorite dead franchise. And he handed it to writers who, even if they did want to respect DMC, were kneecapped by executive directives that boil down to "you don't have to try and make a good show. Just treat everyone watching like phone obsessed zombies who won't even be paying attention."

Can you please explain why my keyboard suddenly looks like this when I’m trying to comment reply?

1) ergonomically uncomfortable when typing because the space bar is so tiny. I don’t need the @ and period constantly at my finger tips. I can go to the secondary menu for @ and double space for period. I usually only see that keyboard when you specifically need to type your email in???

2) I cannot access commas or parenthesis???? I don’t see a question mark in there either

Just speaking about season 1 (because I'm not watching season 2), but if you strip it down to the studs, what is the anatomy of an episode?

75% of the dialogue is exposition or repeating something that already just happened on screen. There is no opportunity to allow the action or the characters to breathe because the showrunners are so desperately terrified you will miss something that the characters need to constantly be up your entire asshole explaining every minutia.

The narrative splits time between two main characters, one of whom isn't allowed to do anything of note for practically the entire runtime of the show and just spends all of his screen time getting exposited to while handcuffed. It's dead time that develops neither character, because one isn't on screen and the other is LITERALLY HANDCUFFED from participating in the plot.

There's no space for character growth or development for either character, because so many of the opportunities that could have been used for character building are consumed by characters needing to explain everything that's happening on screen.

Like I encourage you, if you go and watch it, to actually pay attention to just how much dialogue time is dedicated to directly explaining something about the world, something about the characters, or something that just happened instead of just showing you. It's a lot. That's terrible form for a visual medium, where your biggest advantage is that you can show over tell. I'm not even trying to be mean specifically about this show, too. This is how all Netflix shows have been written for the past several years. Live action ATLA had the exact same issue. The writers are literally given the directive to act as though everyone watching is only half paying attention and on their phones the entire time.

And on top of that, the CG isn't particularly good and can even be quite jarring in places. The actual action scenes worth watching are sparse and the flow is constantly broken up by dialogue explaining the action. The metaphors constructed are paper thing and collapse under even the most minor scrutiny (you wanted to show the plight of refugees so you made them LITERAL DEMONS FROM HELL?) The villain motivations make no sense with the established worldbuilding (White Rabbit is trying to save refugees by bringing them to the human world so they can escape Mundus, so his plan is to collapse the barrier standing between the human and demon worlds to... make it easier for Mundus to follow them?)

I'm not so narrow minded that I can't acknowledge quality, even if I don't think it fits for an established series that I love. I will swear up and down that DmC: Devil May Cry is a good game even if it's not a good DMC game, because even though the characters are significant (and worse) deviations from their canon counterparts and the writing is mid at best, it's got a very solid combat system, an enjoyable soundtrack, and the kinds of bombastic set pieces that draw me to DMC as a series.

I go by the standard of "if I could slap another name on this and still enjoy it, then would I be mad about it?" If I could slap another name on DmC: Devil May Cry and disassociate it from DMC proper then I would still pick it up and play it. If I disassociated Netflix DMC from DMC, then I would have the same conclusion. There is nothing in season 1 that makes me think season 2 would be a worthwhile watch, and based on what I'm seeing come out about the show's season 2, I was correct in that assumption.

You know the worst part about being ace and feeling really represented by a character who has no romantic relationships?

It’s that there will always be some jackass down the line who sees that the character has no romantic relationships, and instead of seeing it as an intentional writing choice, will say “it’s free real estate!” And use it as an opportunity to stick them in the most bog-standard heterosexual relationship you’ve ever seen

I know I said I wasn’t gonna talk about it but this bit breached containment and I just. This was the one thing I never wanted DMC media to do

To be clear, this is not about shippers. It’s about something parading around as official DMC media. It’s not even like it’s game Dante and Lady, who are at least interesting characters with an interesting dynamic and chemistry. I get it when people ship them even if I personally don’t agree and don’t care for it and don’t think it should ever be canon. It’s Netflix’s weird skin suits parading around with Dante and Lady’s names, because they’re two people of the opposite sex and that means they must be attracted to each other, or whatever

I need to contain all my hater ass bitch energy to my 3H streams

I do not care if a second demon twin hits the towers. Netflix is dead to me