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[–] [email protected] 179 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Do you have a source other than...like..fuckin tiktok?

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It was taken off like a year ago, maybe longer. The last season bombed so they took the whole thing down to avoid paying residuals. Think it was even before the merger.

Which just highlights how stupid the system is. Pay residuals, but pay them based on amount of viewing hours. If no one watches a show, there's still no reason to remove it.

Currently an expensive show no one watches can just bleed money.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, everything after season 1 was pretty bad lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You know I heard S2 was bad, so I didn't watch it when it came out but planned on eventually giving it a chance, but this thread and specifically this post just convinced me to never watch it and just keep the memory of Westworld being good in my head lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, comparatively season 2 is worse than the first one but not a massive shitshow. Season 3 though, oh fucking boy. I'd say maybe watch the second season just for some sort of closure, but then definitely stop!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Duly noted, ty.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd say season 2 at least kept close to the original premise of being a mind fuck in the park (albeit many parks this time). It wasn't as good as the original but I don't think it's as bad as the other guy says. After that though the whole tone changed so much in S3 that I didn't even bother with S4.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Season 4 was better than 3 IMO. I really enjoyed it whereas S3 I struggled to sit through. It carried the story forward and pretty much finished the show. I felt closure after watching S4 and satisfied with the ending (if you ignore the last 2 minutes where they try to set up an unneeded 5th season.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Gotta love Hollywood accounting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

WB Discovery is still getting their cut from Westworld, Raised by Wolves, and a dozen or so others by licensing it out to The Roku Channel streaming service of all things. So those actors went from getting scraps from HBO Max to probably next to nothing from Roku. I don't know if that's worse than having the content completely removed or not considering Roku is like Pluto TV and airs things more like cable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like GoT should be taken down for the same reason then. But then I realize that maybe the last two seasons were still successful on some level.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just verified on the Max app

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wonder if Crave still has it in Canada.

Edit: It's still there for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it's not on my fuckin TV anymore. Had to pirate the last couple of seasons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

My wife ask me same thing. At least here in my country I couldn't find it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know where I can stream it from . . .

Anyhoo, I'm sad WW went the way it did. The first season was pretty fantastic. The second season wasn't horrible but seemed a little aimless. I heard the third and I guess the fourth seasons continued declining so I haven't bothered watching them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really enjoyed the last two seasons

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it end on a cliffhanger or wrapped up nicely?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Wrapped up nicely but definitely that kind of esoteric weirdness present throughout the entire series

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I bought their subscription just to watch it... A month after they decided to remove it. It was the main reason for me to set up my home media server with torrent. They've got what they wanted, I pay pirates instead of then

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Got mp4 on the NAS m, got hard case blue rays on the shelf

Never forget what they took from us

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sorry. English is not my first language. Can some one tell me what's wrong?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Streams should be stream, that's literally it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Eh it's really not that bad. I knew exactly what you were trying to convey, and didn't even recognize any errors in the title until I saw that comment and reread it.

Regardless, you pluralized "streams," when in that case it should just be "stream". As a native English speaker, I don't think I could explain the actual "rule" or whatever, it's just automatic in my brain. In fact, I don't even think I'm right that you "pluralized" it. I think you just added an 's' so it changes the form or some shit... Man I don't know.

So it would be like:

Does not stream

Or maybe something like:

No longer streams

If you want to keep the 's'.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't watch TikTok anymore

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Never have.