Looking back now, I can see how it would come off like that… Mean and inappropriate. You’re right, of course; between listening to the whole roasting episode and typing up that reply well beyond the time when I should usually be up typing things, I never considered exactly how what I was putting up would appear to others. What to me were comically exaggerated feelings can be downright bullying to others, and ‘satirical’ rather quickly turned demeaning or downright insulting.
I assure you, I had no intent to directly offend or ruin anything with that post, and if that’s what’s come out of it then I’d like to apologize for that. If you feel it’s necessary to take it down, I won’t object.
I think something important to note is the fact that ttv was distributing links far before their leak policy took effect. Should they edit the descriptions to remove those links? Yeah, definitely. Piracy, and helping it grow is wrong no matter how you look at it. However, there would be little point in getting rid of them now, as 90% of those have been wiped off the face of YouTube.
Now, I do have to ask. Why don’t you go back and remove those links? The episodes (to the best of my knowledge) are on Netflix, and you explicitly stated that distributing illegal content is against the rules on both your channel and the boards, and if found, would be removed. So why not do that to your own videos? It would leave everyone happy, and I’m 90% sure (I don’t make videos so my knowledge falls a bit short here) that you can edit descriptions on all your videos, no matter how old they are.
The first is that it’s a lot of work for literally no real benefit whatsoever. Like you’ve just said, there’s little point in getting rid of them. Nothing to gain by any of that.
The second is that you’re completely missing the point as to why we linked to them.
The reason we linked to any Ninjago episode to be streamed on another site is that, at the time when we made those videos, there were no official links to stream that episode officially.
That was the entire and only reason we linked to non-official sites. LEGO did not provide a clear immediate alternative. If they had, you would bet that we would have linked to them over those other sites in a heartbeat when we made those coverages.
Television is dead. They’re trying to fight it, but it’s a losing battle. See, the thing with cable is that you have to be sitting down at a certain place at a certain time to see something. And if you’ve missed it, unless you have it set to record, it’s really hard to find it again. You have to wait until the reair it - which Cartoon Network doesn’t really make it easy to find and figure out.
We at TTV have always thought that LEGO should make their entertainment more readily and immediately available. Which is why, now, we’re completely supporting them as they have done their absolute best to make sure that Journey to One is available, day one, online to stream. That’s the future of entertainment.
I understand that it isn’t available in all countries, but we need to show them that that works. Again, if LEGO had made Chima or Ninjago available on any streaming platform, we wouldn’t have shared those alternative sites to begin with. But LEGO, so far, still remains partially in the past when it comes to entertainment. This is a step in the right direction.
The third reason is that Bionicle has been a low-investment line for them. There’s no denying it. Ninjago, Chima and Nexo Knights got full order television shows, Bionicle got four episodes and a web series. If you enjoy the line, you have to realize that putting it elsewhere is dangerous, because LEGO can’t trek those metrics. If the Bionicle show isn’t successful, then that’s it. Bionicle is done. This revival will last until 2017, and that will be all of the story content we get. So it’s very important to us, specifically for Bionicle, to make sure that they see how many people actually watch that show.
Bonus fourth reason: still too much work for really nothing. Good luck actually getting someone to do it.
Ah I gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up!
I kinda understood where you were coming from not removing the links even before I made this post, but it’s always nice to have confirmation, y’know?
Well I’m not a cast member so I guess that’s a negative…but in all seriousness I really don’t like the whole “early access” to certain stuff (such as ttv talks) and ttv after show only being available to people who pay for it on Vessel. Also Var yells alot. ALOT. But that’s why we all love right? Right? We all love Var…right?
The way I see it, he’s sorta like… an over protective mother, and the boards/show are his children. We’re all just random kids who he let hang out with his children, and most of us are pretty cool. But if we do anything to threaten them, THE PLAYDATE IS OVER
Since it’s clear that this has become an extended issue and I don’t feel it’s been fully resolved yet I’m going to move this conversation to it’s own topic, as it’s straying too far from this topic’s intended purpose. I feel like there is still merit to discussing this issue, and getting viewer opinions is always welcome and enlightening, so please direct any further comments to that topic.
I hate Mardi Gras it was funny for five minutes but I just find it annoying, is it really comfortable to hear someone scream it at the top of there voice
