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Gonna take a small break for today 🙏 I feel like it’s starting to get a little harder to interact with the FF7 community, it’s been getting worse now that I’m replaying the remake. The conspiracies and arguments being sparked for me talking about Tifa or Aerith is getting weird.

AMC spent almost $100 million making Season 3 of this show. Two full film crews. 300 people on set every day. Then they cancelled it. The show is Into the Badlands. It ran on AMC (the network that made Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead) from 2015 to 2019. It's a martial arts show set in a post-apocalyptic America 500 years from now, where swords have replaced guns and warlords rule the land. Daniel Wu, an American-born martial arts champion, starred in it and produced it. Wu told Den of Geek the show ran two separate film units at the same time. One for action, one for dialogue. 150 people on each. Each episode cost $6 to $7 million to make, which is roughly Game of Thrones money for a cable show almost nobody ended up watching. The fight choreographer was Master Dee Dee Ku. His teacher was Yuen Woo-ping, the man who did the fights in The Matrix and Kill Bill. Ku himself worked on Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Iron Monkey. He put the cast through a six-week boot camp, six hours a day, learning kung fu, weapons, and wire work. Stephen Fung, who directed the Chinese film Tai Chi Zero, ran the whole action unit. They used real wires for the flying scenes instead of computer effects, which is how old Hong Kong movies did it. The premiere pulled 8.2 million viewers in November 2015, the third-biggest cable show launch ever at that time. AMC had it airing right after The Walking Dead, which at its peak was drawing 14 million people a week. When The Walking Dead went off the air between seasons, Badlands lost half its audience. By the Season 3 finale, it was under 1 million viewers per episode. AMC had also stopped promoting the show after Season 1. Cable TV runs on ad money, and that needs big regular audiences. At $6 million per episode, the numbers just weren't adding up. The creators, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, moved on. A few years later they created Wednesday for Netflix, with Tim Burton directing. It's now the most-watched English-language series in Netflix's history, at 252 million views. Same writers making the same kind of dark genre TV, but on a platform that could actually find the audience without needing a Walking Dead to drag people in.

Yeah, it is a father simulator. Thank you, Capcom. I'm enjoying these tiny bits with Diana. It's like teaching your child about all the good stuff they should be enjoying while they're still kids. Hugh sees Diana more as a kid than as some powerful hacking AI that could be used as a weapon of mass destruction. To him, she's his daughter, and he'll kill anyone who dares hurt her.

Have I shown yall my matching pricefield phone cases?