1.) Questions about Netflix claims to success and how it is measured will no longer be avoidable.
Simply put every industry insider knows that Netflixs Kryptonite is its viewing figures.
I read a report talking about how netflix publicises and celebrates it success but hides all their failures because they dont release viewing figures or ratings. The suggestion is that investors are potentially being duped by them and they have a highly inflated share price.
At the moment this is a convenient situation because if they put out a show and its not well recieved they could hide it or even claim it was their biggest hit and no one would be the wiser.
After this they will face greater scrutiny and more people will challenge any claims they have of success. other shows like the flash, supergirl and gotham put out viewing figures week in week out, this opens them up to criticism and praise but more importantly all praise heaped on these shows for success is substantiated with hard numbers. This is very different to netflix whose response is usually something coy or totally ambigous with no verifiable numbers.
To illustrate this point i ask how many people watched house of cards season 1 that went on to watch season 3? I only know one person who did that. But yet its still presented and thought of with the hype in season 1.
This lack of viewing figures is a protection mechanism that netflix can use to manipulate perception of success of its shows even when they stop being successful. we have had external companies try to do external research to measure netlfix success but really you know that if the figures were good consistently then netflix would release them.
As a matter of interest according to the research more people watch supergirl on average each week(8million) than watched house of card and and daredevil put together and even then i think thats being generous to netflix. Just think about that for a minute.
In the long term its not a place they want to be and the question about viewing figures is something netflix dodges like the plague. But if they follow through they will have to accept that it will come to them hard. Once success is put into context most people will realise netflix shows are not as successful as perhaps the General audience think, this will no doubt affect their share price and perception of success netflix surrounds itself with.
2. Quality of Netflix shows will come under scrutiny-
I didnt mind as You can get away with this because Daredevil uses his hands and does martial arts. But with Jessica Jones it was pretty evident that it was done a budget, in fact it felt like a cheap show, she is supposed to be similar to supergirl from a flight and even super strenght perspective, it was very very cheaply done. But most people accept it for what its trying to do rather than what it actually is this is the story of disney side of marvel in a ntushell. Again if you look at the production values for these shows they are in some cases less than some of the other tv shows we currently watch. The most expensive shows on Netflix is marco polo at $9million dollars an episode and i genuinely enjoyed that as i felt i was getting value for money and watching something bridging cinema and the small screen. Unfortunately this is not the case with most Netflix shows so they will have to raise production quality or simply find people genuinely asking whats the hype about? and why do we pay for this when we can get better produced and made shows on NBC or CBS.
3. Confirms without a doubt that the disney side of marvel is petty
The damage to marvel in the short term is purely from a perception and reputational perspective. Over the years alot of the internet debate which in some cases has become nasty as WB/Sony/Fox fans point fingers at the disney side of marvel for various reason. The thing is if you cast your mind back before Disney's side of marvel entered the fray, comic book movies where succesful, spiderman and batman and the xmen movies were all making money and the fans (all of them) where happy for the genres success overall. Since the disney side of marvel have entered the fray they have spent all their time attacking everyone else and willing any comic book movie made by other studios to fail Anyone who watched the antony mackie interview and are fans of the genre would quite simply have been appaled by anthony mackie.
There were rumours that what they did to the xmen and fantastic four comics where done out of spite, but their fans defended them and closed their eyes to everything that people in the middle could see and continued to defend the indensible.
But After this there can be no question that Disney side of marvels aim is to spite other companies.
If i had to use an analogy the best I can think of 50 cent ,
about a decade ago i remember 50 cent had hit his peak but instead of focusing on making good music he spent all his time attacking any other rapper that he was insecure about, it didnt change the fact that his music was getting worse all he did was slow down the industy from moving onto something better. You see all the energy spent trying to hang on to his position should have been put into making good music as ultimately
that is the only way to hang onto the top spot
This is how i see the disney side of marvel, trying hard to troll and undermine other studios but DC is the studio that wont go away and focusing on doing its thing. but all this situation tells me is that Disneys marvel are worried about their position, the last couple of Disney marvel movies have been so and so and havent had the impact they would have liked but instead of focusing on quality and improving their selves they are simply attacking others . Bashing others might lose the attacked fans but it wont make them like you and leads to my next point.
4. All fans of other studios can now categorically point to disney marvel behaviour - from the actors to the comic guys and even tv guys and say without a doubt these are bad guys of the industry and have reducing themselves to the troll of the industry.
This is really important and i think finally closes this argument about what company is the transgressor in alot of the disputes we have had online.
The pathetic thing is that it wont affect batman v superman opening weekend but it does show them up as the haters in the industry trying hard to disrupt other movies from succeding. Not the tag you want.
anyhow its a different perspective and i hope you have enjoyed reading this as i have enjoyed writing this. sound off with your thoughts below.