The Vice President’s brother!

It gets comical how the characters say that phrase so much instead of using his name, for audience benefit.

I appreciate each season changing things up with a different central conceit. As absurd as the Central American super prison and spy craft seasons were at least the show kept changing instead of spinning its wheels.

I am asking, sincerely, what they see in it and how they don’t get distracted by the gravely, old sounding voices. It is difficult to find these people.

You and @Geetnerd@lemmy.world are both right on the line for me to step in when it comes to personally insulting each other. You can disagree without belittling each other.

The OP specified canon comics already. The Vader and Doctor Aphra comics are in canon.

I suppose there is a business argument to be made, but I’m more curious about the audience perspective. Who are these 2 million viewers? What do they like about the show? Do many of them actually even care and rewatch new episodes or is it just background noise?

I don’t think this comic exactly applies; I’m not commenting about people not knowing some bit of trivia. Even if you didn’t grow up with the classic Simpsons, I don’t know how you can’t notice how old and stiff all the main cast sound. Marge sounds older than the voice acting for her mother in classic episodes.

My question is genuine when I ask who is watching these new episodes. Are they people who grew up with the classics who are somehow hanging on? Are they a new, younger audience? Either way, I don’t see what the appeal is. The older audience knows the classic episodes, and the younger audience seems to have many choices for animation that seem a lot more in step with them and without a distractingly aged main voicecast.

I don’t know who is still watching new episodes. Obviously someone, because the show keeps going, but I just don’t get it. Occasionally I see some youtuber say “Actually the show is good again.” and I check it out and never even get to thinking about the plot because all the voice acting is like a punch in the face. All the characters either sound distractingly old with their original voice actors or they sound totally wrong with new ones.

A turreted Gavin is not a tank. It is beyond such categorization.

I actually think season 2 of Prison Break was a perfectly natural and well done (for the intended tone) continuation of the story. I know people snarkily point out the title doesn’t strictly apply anymore, but I think convicts on the run from a manhunt fits. The show was from the beginning always a political conspiracy thriller baked inside of a prison story anyway.

The following seasons get increasingly absurd, but they are enjoyable in a silly way.

While season 2 of The Mandalorian had the distinct flavor of introducing executive producer mandated spin-off hooks, I still found it quite good overall. The finale was the perfect ending to the Mando and child storyline.

The perfect ending. We didn’t need anymore after that ending.

Everything Mando related after that has gone totally off the rails by undoing that ending, and the show has become a parody of itself.

I always figured the doctrine and procurement created mutual inertia against change.

They like it because they have it, and they have it because they like it.

I like the convenience of being shown all my subscriptions, and with a trained algorithm actually being shown suggestions I’d be interested in. I think with an account used just for YouTube and nothing else the value to Google is minimal. It’s the last thing I have left from de-googling everywhere else.

from other users.

Can you elaborate? Using a compartmentalized account just to watch videos seems it shouldn’t draw any attention unless you’re getting into fights in the comments.

I have a Google account specifically for logging into YouTube. I’ve aggressively used the like/hide channel/not interested in this video options to force it to actually show me what I want. It took quite a while to train it, but my YouTube homepage is actually nice right now.

But every so often I’ll go on YouTube logged out and it’s like staring into the sun. The top videos that it pushes seem like brain melting garbage.

Strangely I haven’t had any issues with Firefox+Ublock+Sponsorblock. The way YouTube interacts with seemingly the same sets of software for different people is baffling.

You’ll use rifled MBT main guns and you’ll like it.

Nah, I just don’t feel like typing out a thesis to defend what started out as an offhand joke under a meme post.

But also Gollum.

I’m pretty sure being stuck in space prison with Gollum was a factor.

With carter having been out of the WH for decades at that point, I didn’t consider him a “current” political figure. That episode is an example as well where the closest that episode gets to politics are some jabs at Carter as a peanut farmer, the episode doesn’t use him to segue into some then-current political issue centered on a current politician.

My point, the forest through the trees, is that KOTH tended to shy away from up to the minute real world political specifics, and instead went for wider cultural issues and sort of culture politic issues without tying itself to specific real world politicians. Doing an episode revolving around a current hot button politician is more South Park’s game, and even those guys are tired of talking about Trump.

People are giving answers to your specific hypothetical, but on a higher level, the answer is simple. The government likes having more money. Once a tax is in place, it becomes the new normal. It can be like pulling teeth to make a government roll back a tax. Groups in my local area have tried numerous times to roll back a specific tax where a government spokesperson has even said the tax is no longer fulfilling the original purpose, but removing the tax would now affect the overall budget. That has become the reason they refuse to remove it, and because neither party cares much about removing it, there’s no political leverage by the voters who care about it.