I don't have any. That's not because I'm indifferent to what I've seen, it's because I haven't seen the show at all.
Okay, so clickbait title aside, this isn't so much about Animaniacs as it is about the major change in the modern entertainment model.
Back when I was a kid, shows aired on TV and there were ads in-between episodes. Yes, the ads were annoying, but they had a predictable format and were tolerable. The content was still free to anyone who had a TV, or at least had a basic cable subscription. You didn't need to be special, have a particular kind of TV, or have a credit card. The only annoyance was that there was no way to pay extra to have the ads taken away, though a VCR could fix that if you had enough patience. Later, there was always the option to buy stuff on DVD and you could own and re-watch the shows forever to your heart's content. It wasn't perfect, but it made sense.
Today... you need to subscribe to a service for anything. There's dozens of services with their own stupid rules and gimmicks. That's on top of the multitude of subscriptions you need just to get "basic" TV, because every channel wants to be paid separately (my parents pay about $300/mo for cable TV). All the subscriptions are temporary and you don't own squat. Worst of all, even after subscribing, you still have to deal with ads, because "subsidization" or some nonsense.
Look, I know content costs money to create, but I can't support a model where you must pay a monthly fee to get access. Either make it free with ads, or let me pay to remove the ads. Being forced to pay for content and have to deal with ads, or pay even more money and still not be able to permanently own or watch stuff at your leisure, is just too fucking stupid for me to tolerate. This subscription nonsense needs to die in a fire.
So, yeah, I don't think I'll even have the chance to see the show. From what I hear, opinions vary wildly, from it being awesome, to it not being as good as the original, to it being "woke" and disrespectful. From the short clips I've seen, I'm not terribly impressed with it, but... whatever. It's a show, and a business model, that I simply cannot support.
On that note, I'm pissed that Cartoon Network refuses to release all the seasons of Regular Show on DVD. I have the first three seasons on disc already, and I love them, but the remaining five seasons are exclusively available via streaming. Sorry, but I'm the kind of guy who likes re-watching random stuff every few months, maybe even years in the future, and I don't want another damn lease. If I can't own it on DVD or Blu-ray or on my NAS, I won't buy it.
Fuck streaming and fuck subscriptions. Make it free with ads, pay to remove ads completely, or buy it in a store and own it forever. Stop trying to turn the whole TV industry into the games industry -- a micro-transaction playground where everything is an indefinite lease, and end users are apparently not allowed to actually enjoy anything.
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