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Fiction Adaptation Poll (3/3): Archive 81 (Dead Signals, 2016–present) and Archive 81 (Netflix, 2022)
Please vote for the option that you feel best represents you opinion of the television show. I understand that it's possible to feel multiple of these at once, so please choose the one that sums up your thoughts the best.
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redraw of i think my first piece of archive 81 art (back in 2021)! i changed my designs for rat and dan a bit:-) im very happy w my improvement ^_^ original under the cut
#yes i gave them cat ears. i think theyre silly^_^#archive 81 podcast#archive 81 netflix#<- spite tag#a81#rat archive 81#rat a81#jacob lester#daniel powell#dan powell#redraw#artists on tumblr#digital art#queue
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#tumblr polls#horror polls#from#archive 81#haunting of hill house#from mgm#Netflix archive 81#the haunting of hill house#from epix#dan turner#thohh#boyd stevens#Archive 81 Netflix#hill house#epix from#Melody pendras#crain family#from tv#james wan#shirley jackson#netflix#polls#horror
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You know what I desire? A crossover between archive 81 the podcast and the shitty Netflix adaptation.
I wanna see Melody and Alexa pound Samuel into the dirt, the pathetic Samuel of the netflix show. A brilliant use of the fact that Netflix show Samuel is seen often by Netflix Melody. I wanna see Samuel try his fucking "come with me on a date to the opera" and mayhaps lean in for a kiss. Only for Melody to grab him by the nose and go "I'm married, bitch." Or mayhaps, "It is only that im unsure if you're evil in this reality that prevents from tearing you to shreds."
I wanna see Melodys first reaction to the sight of Samuel to be fight, and to see this capitalist cultist weenie to fold like a paper in the face of violence. Fecker definitely is too comfortable. I wanna see Melody getting jiggy and wild with her magic rituals in Christian demon cult building. I wanna see the demon cult residents in confusion.
I wanna see how Podcast Melody reacts to the vizer apartment residents. Mayhaps this when she realizes she's not quite in the past, that she's in a different universe entirely. Like how Jess is 15 and a girl. How there's a psychic a medium an artist and a musician. But no man who loses faces or that one guy who cannot be recorded. How watered down and uninteresting the occultism is. I wanna see her flip through books and panic at the lack of depth. Her main motivation in interviewing residents being that they are different somehow now and she needs to figure out what happened.
Honestly I think it would be soo cool if the framing of the Netflix show was the result of some entity or leviathan! Like this reality might be a pocket reality or a dimension under the control of a single entity. I'd love it if the weird Christian demon themes were the result of the storytelling of a storyteller. One who is pushing themes into the story to prove a point or to serve a purpose. A purpose that Melody by virtue of being not the watered down Heterosexual damsel in distress she was meant in this world to be, stands in the way of. I wanna see the story teller struggle to try to push Melody into the role Netflix wants her in.
Residents spouting exposition about her life, trying to reshape her image in the eyes of an audience she cannot see, as she at them in "That's not what happened, that's not me, what the fuck are you talking about" People she's spoken to maybe once suddenly privy to gossip about things she did years ago towns away.
People suddenly popping up near her where they have no business, or a strong reason to avoid being there. Like meeting a elderly resident in a wheelchair at the grocery story when she knew the elevator was out, and that Jess usually got their groceries for them. Only for them to start telling Melody that she has a dark presence hanging over her. (Something ungodly, something un christian)
People she doesn't know very well at all suddenly being very friendly after a few interactions. Old friends from primary school, or highschool, or "we were like sisters back in the day" spontaneously formed deep friendships that Melody does not reciprocate. Telling stories about Old Times™ and "all the boys Melody liked" . An ineffectual foil to a wild and weary normal person. I want an Author struggling to control a story with a rogue element.
In essence Netflix is a leviathan and homophobic. All of the writing and tropes are sprinkles on the horror sandwich.
#archive 81#archive 81 podcast#archive 81 netflix#crossover#archive 81 crossover#melody pendras#is it a crossover if it is a show and its podcast?#samuel#samuel davenport#archive 81 Melody Pendras
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So...in the archive 81 show...are the names Jonah and Lukas... Magnus archives references??????????? Because it seems like too big of a coincidence to not be
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Okay so I'm on season 2 or Archive 81 the podcast.
It's very different than the show in more than plot points. The vibe is different. I'm enjoying it.
Obviously there was only 1 season of the Netflix show but season 2 of the podcast is like off the rails crazy. It feels like it's more surrealist than the regular dark spooky arcane magical vibes of the Netflix show.
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Having seen kaelego and melody only on screens and in imagination makes them 2D right?
#melody pendras#kaelego#I can't be scared of horror i've got anime on my side#archive 81 netflix#slashonmydash
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#polls#tv polls#netflix#the society#first kill#the imperfects#partner track#travelers#daredevil#archive 81#santa clarita diet#1899
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I'm honestly surprised there's never been a Netflix-specific strike. But I do think there's was a lawsuit that was settled or won, so there's that.
#Netflix#wga strike#writer's strike 2023#first kill#warrior nun#archive 81#odaat#teenage bounty hunters#santa clarita diet#the get down#the babysitters club#glow netflix
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The absurdity and stupidity of all shitflix cancelations lies in one simple question: How many of those canceled shows have you actually heard of before they got canceled?
- Warrior Nun - never heard of it until the moment I started seeing its fans spamming every shitflix post. And that was its second season. It had two seasons, for fucks sake, and most of us have never heard of it. You wanna know whose fault that is? Let me give you a hint. No, it's not the viewing numbers.
- First Kill (or whatever its name is) - Never heard of it until, once again, I saw people complaining about the cancelation under shitflix posts. Once again, guess whose fault that is.
- Santa Clarita Diet - Never heard of it. Didn't even know it was canceled until it made it to the list of pissed of people counting how many of them they axed. Whose fault is that?
- Inside Job - Yeah, never heard of it until it got canceled. Also, canceled after they renewed it. Shitflix: guess we changed our minds.
- Archive 81 - Heard of it when the cancelation was announced.
- The OA - Remember just hearing about it through the fog, even though it came out years ago.
- Sense 8 - know about it only thanks to fans' videos and fanart. I don't remember shitflix ever mentioning it.
- Lockwood & Co - I know about it thanks to fans spamming posts asking for renewal news.
And the list goes on with, I assume, shows I have never heard of.
I've never seen any of these shows, but my open wound is 1899 that I believe got treated the dirtiest of them all.
I have heard of it two years before the premiere, thanks to a 50 seconds long teaser that got me patiently waiting for years because it was my cup of tea. It came from the people who proved themselves before by creating a critically acclaimed show that you can find on a top 10 list of greatest shows of all time. Those people have spent years developing a new filming technique for shitflix. What a way to say thank you.
8 out of 10 people around me have seen 1899. Those people haven't even seen GoT or LotR for fucks sake, the most famous show and movie ever, but they have seen 1899. But not because shitflix promoted it, but because people did.
There was zero promotion, zero cast interviews, zero mentions after the release. It was still watched and talked about by so many people. It has more viewing hours than their hit shows running for 3+ seasons put together. It's a show you can't just binge and forget, you have to actually turn your fucking brain on. It was released in the most busy time of the year, during the damn World Cup and winter holidays. It was still number one for weeks. It was given less than 30 days. They decided to cancel it before it even premiered. They deleted the trailer with 10+ million views from YT.
The same goes with other shows. I have seen zero cast interviews, zero promotion or mentions by their own platform and they still have loyal fan bases that didn't stop talking about them.
But then you have dogshit shows like the Night agent that is getting hyped by shtflix every single fucking day. Fake numbers, pumped up to get people to watch a generic, a hundred times seen before, piece of crap. It got more hype than fucking GoT, and yet I know zero people who have actually watched it. Yep, there is no one I know, in real life or online, that has actually watched this show. So you figure it out.
People who have watched the shows I've mentioned probably have the statistics for them, and have probably seen the viewing hours being blamed for it, which was bullshit.
The latest nail in the coffin was Lockwood & Co. They kept fans waiting for months, and then they announced the cancelation during Eurovision so that fans wouldn't be able to go viral about it because everyone talked about fucking Eurovision.
Shitflix has canceled 26 sci-fi/fantasy shows in the last 3 years. 26! Do you all remember when we couldn't even name 26 shows of all genres put together, let alone watch them?
What all these shows had in common is that they were original and more or less unique and creative, not something you can find at least 6 copies of in either streaming or network TV.
It's like they created all these shows just so they can cancel them, because they are doing their best to actually burn every trace they ever existed.
Shitflix is killing creativity in every form, but in the end, that will be their undoing.
#shitflix#1899#1899 netflix#warrior nun#first kill#santa clarita diet#inside job#the oa#sense 8#archive 81#lockwood and co#fuck you netflix#i hope the writers strike will be their death
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SUIT: There is something preventing me from removing it myself but... there is a carving knife on my desk
ID in alt
#archive 81#digital art#suit archive 81#caroline levi#a81#archive 81 podcast#archive 81 netflix#<- the hater is filling the tag out of vile disgust
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the stage is dark but for a single white spotlight center stage. it is empty except for a single microphone. the audience is buzzing quietly.
I walk in from the side aisles and approach the microphone. I am clearly not affiliated with this production. I tap the mic twice and there is some obnoxious feedback. the crowd goes silent. when the speakers stop crunching you can hear a pin drop.
i lean into the microphone.
"fuck netflix"
#fuck netflix#this could be about so many things#ill tag the ones im mad about right now#but don't worry its about all of it#lockwood and co show#the bastard son and the devil himself#shadow and bone#six of crows show#archive 81#i am not okay with this#cobra kai#everything sucks#dead end paranormal park#the dark crytsal: age of resistance#the baby sitters club#anne with an e#julie and the phantoms
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I swear there is nothing more insane to me than watching the n*tflix adaptation of Archive81 after listening to the original podcast and then seeing people not hating the show, it gives me such intense whiplash
#i mean like what you like and all that#but it just reminds me how podcasts and comics aren't a respectable enough medium to warrent faithful adaptations and that's INFURIATING#like god forbid a book adaptation get a characters hair wrong but a live action movie based on a comic can literally just do whatever#sure#we the fans complain but the people making it sure don't!!#anywho#soz 4 the rant#archive 81#netflix archive 81#dan powell
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A note from the editors...
On First Kill and What it Says About Netflix, Media and the Undo Burden Queer Women Have to Carry
I have no criticisms for First Kill. The people who worked on it did their best with the limited budget and experience they had. Even with its flaws the concept was good and the story of the two girls alone managed to get more viewership than many Netflix series that are constantly renewed.
I will however talk about Netflix. I have been very vocal of my criticism of Netflix in the past but always put that aside so we can promote wlw media on this blog wherever they came from. But it was always blatant how the idea of queer women leads is viewed on the platform.
Netflix initially launched into mainstream culture in great part due to offering diverse shows like Orange is the new Black (a show specifically diverse in terms of women's sexuality, with queer women leads). Shows that were considered alternative and progressive compared to Network TV. After succeeding in gaining popularity because they offered the thing others didn't, Netflix content shifted. Even though investing in creating a quality show with a wlw main couple had paid off in the past they decided being more like network TV was the best strategy. Any attempt at inclusion for queer women was either carefully veiled behind projects that "are not really about the gay girls, the gay girls are just there" like The Prom, promoted without a hint of the lgbt content like Everything Sucks and Teenage Bounty Hunters or not promoted at all like Feria The Darkest Light, The Half of It and I'm Not Ok With This. They were generally given very little room to succeed. Most of the wlw focused projects were never promoted, had unknown actors and given a small budget.
If the project was big, well promoted and expensive it meant the screentime of the queer woman was limited. Even Warrior Nun (based on very gay source material) and Babysitter's Club (with everyone thinking the lead has to be queer) simply gave a side character 2 minutes to be out as a gay girl and called it a day. If they're investing big you can count on the gay woman part to be small. This came to a head when they changed the lead's sexuality in Archive 81 (who was a lesbian with a wife in the original podcast) and made her wife her gay roommate. "And they were roommates!". It was in some ways laughable to what lengths they'd go to because of their need to limit queer women to side characters in big projects they're actually invested in.
But First Kill was a series putting the wlw couple front and center so we had to believe all of the above was a coincidence right? We gave them another chance and they proved everything we had been seeing was right. They set it up to fail and when it didn't they justified the cancellation by saying it didn't succeed enough. That's the thing. It would have succeeded enough if they hadn't set it up to fail so blatantly.
Netflix will rain unbelievable amounts of money to get the biggest names from the TikTok, acting and music worlds to star in their big budget straight cheesy romances. They gave First Kill 10 dollars and candy to paraphrase a person who worked on the show. They were unwilling to pay for the really good, experienced writing team needed to turn a vampire romance story into a well fleshed out TV show. As a result the writing was acceptable for a vampire romance novel but not for live action TV dialogue. They were unwilling to pay for good cgi. As a result the cgi made CW shows look good in comparison. They were unwilling to pay for expensive, popular actors. They were unwilling to pay for any sort of production value. Why? Because they don't have enough faith in projects about queer women to invest in them. But the wlw shows have to succeed anyway or else we confirm their aversion to invest in our projects was right. We are asked and creators are asked to make a hit out of something without given the proper tools and then told we don't sell.
That is our vicious circle with Netflix even if it's proven that when money and work is put in to a project that centers wlw, people will come. Even if millions are lost on failed projects that center straight ppl. Even in a world where Gen Z is set to rule the world and it's a generation that is more and more queer.
Queer women are expected to consume projects that are lesser than those of straight ppl and even those of gay men. Unfortunately, we live in that messed up intersection of misogyny and homophobia that makes investing in us somehow the last risk to take. As they liberally throw money away on worthless trash. But it's straight trash so...
Good news is Network TV is dying. Netflix imitating their focus on a default basic straight audience (and the white gay pretty boys they can fetishize) does not seem like a good strategy for the future. Other services that are putting real effort into bringing queer women out of the TV margins will become the entertainment providers of the most sexually diverse generation of women we've ever had. Let's bring about that future as soon as possible. Go watch Paper Girls, Yellowjackets, Harley Quinn animated series, Dickinson, Crush... If you're a woman, or non-binary person, and not straight, fuck Netflix. Cancel your Netflix account.
Do fear for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Expect as little from Netflix as possible. That's what they're willing to give you.
Twitter said it best:
#Netflix#first kill#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo#first kill netflix#lgbtqia#pride#pride month#gay pride#happy pride 🌈#lesbian#gay#lgbt#lgbtq#wlw#bi#girls who like girls#tv#sapphic#archive 81#feminism#feminist
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… has anyone made a connection between Archive 81 and The Magnus archives yet.. cus the Netflix description is.. basically exactly what the Magnus archives is.
To quote:
“An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.”
… obviously the video tapes are to be replaced with digitizing statements, and the director is probably Gertrude, and that demonic cult?… how many cults are in the Magnus archives? Don’t answer that. It’s probably too many for me to wrap my head around. And I mean- the fear entities definitely ARENT demons- BUUUTT.. I mean… they can be similar… for the sake of my argument…
#gonna start watching#the magnus archives#the magnus institute#jonathan sims#tma podcast#the magnus protocol#gertrude robinson#tma fears#archive 81#netflix archive 81
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one of the few joys left in this late capitalist hellscape is escapism in media and TV execs are just intent on extinguishing that too.
like i fully just dont wanna watch anything new anymore bc chances are im gonna get left with half a story.
#ofmd#ofmd cancellation#the society#1899#dear edward#let the right one in#the OA#the midnight club#sense8#the imperfects#paper girls#archive 81#open your eyes#capitalism#fuck hbo#fuck netflix
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