Let's see *scrolls through imdb*... he's also got, Ice Age, Superman, Narnia, Band Of Brothers....

Yep...dude's nuts.

Sheet son, that's the one!

Was a good flick last time I watched it, hopefully it still is.

Rest in peace Neil, you will, quite literally, be remembered forever.

*raises glass*

Alright so here's the plan. We're going to take episodes from normal TV shows and movies, and just put FishOutOfWater doing background jokes in all of them. THEY WILL ALL BE HILARIOUS AND AMAZING. BECAUSE FISHOUTOFWATER IS HILARIOUS AND AWESOME. Could you imagine, the CSI crew examine a dead hookers body while Fish get's fascinated with her shoes and starts trying to walk in them. Gold right there people. GOLD!

I'm pretty sure the amount of love I hold for this movie, and specifically this character is bordering on unhealthy.

This conversation is 10 kinds of more hilarious* when you have no clue what's happening.

Heh...spermia.

*approximation, as I have no clue what the actual hilarity level is like if you do understand it.

That... was amazing.

Sheeeet son. Congratz.

I guess this is where we're missing each other, because you say this, but everything else you're talking about, the subscriber based system, is by necessity built on appealing to as large of an audience as possible. Netflix HAS to appeal to everyone or else they don't get enough subscribers to survive let alone make original content. And they do that by having as much stuff as possible. It works for now. But only because they have decades and decades of already produced shit to leech off of.

If they (or anyone) tries moving to an entirely original content system based solely off the funds used from subscribers (Ignoring the initial start up costs, we can assume they got a kickstarter for their first show), the amount of stuff they will be able to produce is microscopic compared to what netflix is hosting right now. So you'll have a small audience of people who dig whatever it is you're making at that point, but you won't be pulling in anywhere near enough to diversify to the point where you can have that kind of mass appeal, and make it worthwhile for people to sign up even if they don't like everything.

And as I said, that is not really a large enough market to really be considered as a serious source of income for these kinds of projects

All this does is tell me about the utter inanity of the masses. That something that is exactly the same as tap water, is expensive as fuck and just leads to piles of empty bottles lying around can be considered valuable and convenient. How did they manage to get people to buy bottled water? By lying to them and implanting false ideas of purity and goodness.  I mean, it's great and all that it's still working for them, but it's not exactly a business model I want to be supporting for future endeavours.

The issue I keep running into thinking about this, is I can't see any way for a subscription service like netflix or whatever to bring in enough cash for itself to produce the amount of programming that they need to keep that level of variety. Because right now, they are still just piggy backing on all the stuff that has come before that has been produced using the traditional methods.

So aside from jacking the prices sky high to pay for their originally programming, and without some other source of income, I don't see how it could work.

(EDIT: DISLAIMER. I'm not a business guy...at all. I'm sure there are ways it could work, and I hope someone can explain it to me. /I/ just can't see it right now.)

Got it.