Why There's No Need For South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2
While South Park: The Streaming Warswas a solid special for the long-running animated comedy series, it is not one that necessarily needs a sequel.South Park’s historic 2021 deal with Paramount+ means the series will produce 14 feature-length movies for the streaming service, the fifth of which was recently released. Following on from The Pandemic Special, South ParQ Vaccination Special, and the two-part Post-Covid saga, South Park: The Streaming Wars took serialized story elements of season 25 and ran with them.
Cartman’s struggle with living in a hotdog resulted in an unlikely surgery, Stan and Tolkien became involved with numerous “streaming services,” and the water supply of South Park became the subject of a life or death battle between monied interests. The complicated plot of the special eventually left Tolkien’s father missing, a minor character death, and the fate of South Park looking grim. Despite this, though, South Park: The Streaming Wars doesn’t need a Part 2.
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The latest South Park special ended on a downbeat note, feeling like the first half of a two-parter that would soon have a more optimistic ending. However, most of the plots left dangling by the ending of South Park: The Streaming Wars (Pi Pi’s alliance with ManBearPig, his control of the town’s water supply, and the continuing environmental impact the streaming wars had on South Park) could be carried into the next season. Meanwhile, the special’s message (that climate change is exacerbated by companies hoping to profit off water scarcity) doesn’t need to be undone with a happy ending. If anything, South Park could prove that the show is serious about addressing the
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