The Primal Toonami Promo

[CountFrylock]

so it's now confirmed that this marathon is nothing more than one big commercial for hbo max and that's the main reason this is even happening

so they can talk about how great hbo max is and flash a qr code for a trial so that the viewers can experience the wonders of hbo max

Edited November 22, 2020 by CountFrylock

[Jman]

I’ve posted about it before, but Warner Media is betting the farm on HBO Max and has begun restructuring just about everything to support it.  Why else would they be throwing Wonder Woman 84 on there?

I’m genuinely shocked there isn’t an archive of All Elite Wrestling there.

[The1gairon]

FUCK!

The very ironic thing is that all this is being done on a cable block that has been shedding ratings for the past 5 years with no one doing anything about it, out of competiton FROM THE VERY STREAMING PLATFORMS THEY ARE ADVERTISING. "GLAD TO HAVE YOU ON THE BLOCK! WATCH THESE SHOWS ELSEWHERE RIGHT NOW! LEAVE! LEAVE!"

Edited November 22, 2020 by elfie

[CountFrylock]

1 hour ago, elfie said:

FUCK!

The very ironic thing is that all this is being done on a cable block that has been shedding ratings for the past 5 years with no one doing anything about it, out of competiton FROM THE VERY STREAMING PLATFORMS THEY ARE ADVERTISING. "GLAD TO HAVE YOU ON THE BLOCK! WATCH THESE SHOWS ELSEWHERE RIGHT NOW! LEAVE! LEAVE!"

another thing there's gonna be a boondocks marathon on friday which will also be advertising hbo max with another qr code for a trial

......this marathon really feels like toonami was told "Promote Our Flawless Streaming service and tell people to sign up while they watch this marathon!"

which doesn't really help toonami in anyway....it just takes the regular break off in favor of some shameless advertising to beg people to sign up for hbo max

so this wasn't done because toonami wanted it but more likely because ATT/Warner Media wanted it and toonami had to deal with it

because a thanksgiving marathon when thanksgiving isn't exactly the big traveling holiday everyone's used to this year and without anything to really need to stall for

it comes off as more than a little odd

Edited November 22, 2020 by CountFrylock

[OwlChemist81]

It isn't really THAT different from the Dark Nights Batman takeover back in August. It was really just to promote that weird DC Fandome thing.

It will be interesting to see what their next show marathon will be. It probably will be an ordinary show Toonami decides to marathon.

Also, there is actually a VERY good chance now that Season 2 of Primal IS a Toonami original! Probably same goes for BallMastrz 9009 Season 3. Then again, it's also likely that both pull a gen:LOCK and become HBO Max originals.

Edited November 22, 2020 by OwlChemist81

[Top Gun]

You people can make up a reason to bitch about anything, can't you?

[The1gairon]

3 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said:

It isn't really THAT different from the Dark Nights Batman takeover back in August. It was really just to promote that weird DC Fandome thing.

It will be interesting to see what their next show marathon will be. It probably will be an ordinary show Toonami decides to marathon.

Also, there is actually a VERY good chance now that Season 2 of Primal IS a Toonami original! Probably same goes for BallMastrz 9009 Season 3. Then again, it's also likely that both pull a gen:LOCK and become HBO Max originals.

That marathon was made to plug a virtual convention, not a streaming platform that is directly competing with Toonami.

[OwlChemist81]

1 hour ago, elfie said:

That marathon was made to plug a virtual convention, not a streaming platform that is directly competing with Toonami.

Still under the entertainment blanket, and that virtual con did have events going on during Toonami on the 22nd of August.

It's a streaming service under the same corporate roof. I mean, if you really want to be technical about competition with Toonami, the video game reviews are also sort of like that. You can do both in the hours that Toonami ISN'T airing, but of course you also can during those in which it is.

Edited November 23, 2020 by OwlChemist81

[CountFrylock]

still though toonami doesn't really gain anything from this marathon....it's just to lead people to HBO Max and that's all

 

[Sketch]

On 11/22/2020 at 7:41 PM, CountFrylock said:

still though toonami doesn't really gain anything from this marathon....it's just to lead people to HBO Max and that's all

 

Well they get to air Primal, which is pretty cool IMO. But aside from that they are playing ball when asked by their corporate overlords and there may be benefits to that cooperation at some point.