Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 22 hours agoThe fact that this is happening now and not at the end of season 2 implies studio shenaniganary and not listening to some dumb chuds.
Why would they sabotage viewership for season 2 instead of canceling it outright? Or at a minimum just dump the rest of it now?
My gut says it’s virtue signaling by management to the Ellison who’s gonna run the place in the not too distant future. Canceling the “woke” trek sounds like something sufficiently sycophantic for a Hollywood exec.
The worst part is now the chuds are taking a victory lap.
Season 2 completed production a couple of weeks ago. SNW has completed production on its final 2 seasons. This is the first time there has been a clear deck with no Trek in development or production since 2005.
It isn’t necessarily virtue signalling. A new ownership team tends to like having a fresh start on key properties. It comes at the right time, with Kurtzman’s contract up at the end of the year.
So if it had been popular would it have continued? Serious question, because it sounds like they weren’t going to continue SFA after season 2 in the first place.
There was a report posted elsewhere claiming that the viewership has been greater than expected but they still canceled it.
If it were a phenomenon then maybe it would have been continued, but Trek is expensive, and they don’t have Netflix paying for it these days.
I never got the impression it was a show that would stick around. Obviously it would be limited to 4 seasons anyway without replacing most of the cast, but I think it pretty much wrapped everything up in season 1.
Why would they sabotage viewership for season 2 instead of canceling it outright? Or at a minimum just dump the rest of it now?
They can’t dump season 2 right now because it only finished filming a month ago and there’s a lot to be done after that.
Okay. Still doesn’t explain why they’d announce this now.
Just a guess, but maybe because S02 finished production and now would be the time to begin production on S03 including signing contracts with the cast and crew. If they didn’t announce it, then all of those people out of work would sure as hell shout it from the rooftops.
This makes sense if they want to break down the sets.
grue@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
More like “vice signaling.”