Final Space Shows That Piracy Might Be The Only Way Forward

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Corporations are the fucking worst. We all know this. The majority of mainstream media we adore is produced by capitalist organisations helmed by overpaid executives who are more than happy to pay artists, writers, animators, and other such creatives a fraction of the salary they deserve to bring these ideas to life. The world is bitterly unfair, and cartoons are little more than a temporary distraction as the planet approaches its inevitable death.

As I’ve written about time and time again, animation is having a hard time right now. Netflix is scaling back its efforts to focus on more predictable demographics, Disney is busy cancelling shows long before reaching their full potential, and the medium continues to be viewed as a lesser art form compared to its live-action counterpart. This is a lot of nonsense to deal with, and I haven’t even touched on the recent behaviour of Warner Discovery. As part of a recent merger, the company has removed countless shows from HBO Max to save on its taxes.

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Final Space creator Olan Rogers confirmed last week that Final Space was indeed taken off HBO Max due to tax purposes, and won’t be available to view anywhere once Netflix takes the show down from international platforms. Physical copies are now out of print, and they also weren’t produced for all seasons of the show and thus aren’t a reliable way to watch it anyway. Five years of Olan’s life, and those of the production crew, are being thrown into the ether because some greedy network assholes want to save themselves money to host it on their platform and pay royalties.

Warner Discovery doesn’t view Final Space as a work of art