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Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all had this experience. We get hooked on a show. We fall in love with the characters. We can’t stop thinking about them in between episodes. Then it gets cancelled or rushed to conclusion. When that happens to a show, it can feel like a relationship has abruptly ended – and a lot of them have ended in recent years. The streaming boom has gone bust. A lot of streaming services invested in sci-fi fantasy shows, hoping the for next Game of Thrones or Stranger Things. So, this wave of cancellations has hit SFF fans hard. We asked our listeners to tell us about the cancellations that broke their hearts in the recent or distant past, and how they’re trying to make sense of unresolved endings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:06.6	our disbelief, I'm Eric Malinsky.
0:10.4	Last year, I did an episode about a Norwegian show called Beforeinners.
0:14.9	The premise was that people from different eras of history were showing up in modern-day
0:18.8	Oslo, like the Vikings.
0:21.2	The show used time travel to explore issues of immigration and cultural identity.
0:26.6	I loved it.
0:28.2	And a lot of my listeners told me, after they heard the episode, they immediately binge
0:32.5	the show on HBO Max.
0:35.7	There is no HBO Max anymore.
0:38.8	After the discovery corporation bought Warner Media, they rebranded the site as Max and
0:44.2	purged it in a massive attempt to save costs.
0:48.2	Beforeinners wasn't just cancelled, it was taken off the site.
0:51.2	And this is happening to different shows across streaming platforms.
0:55.3	The studios are removing shows for tax purposes, and they don't have to pay residuals to any
1:00.8	of the talent.
1:02.9	Residuals is one of the many reasons why the actors and the writers are on strike.
1:06.9	But it's been brutal for fans too.
1:10.1	Last year, I did another episode about the show Papergirls.
1:13.5	And I remember right after it dropped out Amazon Prime, I saw a community of fans building
1:17.8	in real time as they watched the episodes, falling in love with characters, doing fan
1:22.6	art, predicting what might happen in season 2.
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