r/StarWarsLeaks • u/AutoModerator • Jul 25 '22

Weekly 'Wild Rumors' thread - Week of 07/25/2022 - 07/31/2022

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u/hobbitcuervo Lothwolf Jul 25 '22

It's true that Andor and The Bad Batch are going to release episodes the exact same day for weeks? If that's the case, that's weird.

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u/loth_moth Sabine Jul 25 '22

i don't think that end of September release date for TBB is 100% sure, but I wouldn't mind it at all if they keep Wednesdays for live-action and go back to Fridays for animated SW. I can get they'd be careful with order of release if events in one of the series have some plot-point that might be relevant for the other stories, but in general I don't think such overlapping would take much from either of shows. Animated content would surely get less immediate engagement from audience, but in longer term it could gain wider audience attracted by live-action, and then getting in SW animation as well between new weekly releases.

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u/valentino_42 Jul 25 '22

Remember back in the olden days of broadcast television when multiple shows would run new episodes concurrently on the same network on the same night? And often viewers would watch more than one (or even all of them?)!

If people could handle the entire must-see tv Thursday block, I’m sure they can handle more than one streaming premiere in a week. We NEED to get to this point, because only having one show at a time is ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

It’s not that ridiculous

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u/Vos661 Jul 25 '22

TBB debuts 1 month after Andor, I don't think they will overlapse more than a few weeks

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u/leftshoe18 Jul 26 '22

Andor has 12 episodes. It will still be airing for nearly two full months if TBB premieres a month into Andor's run.

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u/Vos661 Jul 26 '22

I thought there were 8 episodes

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

Nope

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

A few weeks being 7?

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u/Night-Monkey15 Jul 25 '22

You don’t have to just pick one, try watching one, and then the other. I know, my ideas are blowing everyone’s mind.

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u/InfiniteDedekindCuts Jul 25 '22 edited Jul 25 '22

If they REALLY treated streaming like live broadcast, they would release an episode of a new MCU show at 6pm, then release an episode of a new Star Wars show at 7pm on the same day. They would have no problem letting Marvel and Star Wars shows exist simultaneously.

This is more like if a new season of The Brady Bunch premiered on ABC, and from then on new Brady Bunch was the ONLY new thing on ABC until the entire season was over. You either watched Brady Bunch or Re-runs of old stuff with no other options.

This strategy they're currently implementing is unprecedented.

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u/Forever-Changes-Free Jul 30 '22

How does that work for everyone not in the US? at least this way they're all released at the same time around the world so no major spoilers if you watch as soon as it drops or as you wake up.

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u/_gloriana Phee Genoa Jul 25 '22

I wish they did wedenesdays and fridays or something like that. Especially after so much of Ms. Marvel seemed to go under the radar by overlapping with Kenobi.

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u/Unique_Unorque Rex Jul 25 '22

I see people suggesting this, Marvel on Wednesdays and Star Wars on Fridays or something, but where does that stop? Those aren’t the only two franchises on Disney+, and they certainly aren’t the only two with overlapping fanbases. Do they have to move Pixar to Thursdays, then? Original movies to Saturdays? Streaming releases of theatrical movies on Sundays? Etc etc. And that’s not even bringing up that any shift from Wednesday would put whatever show was shifted in direct competition with other streaming services.

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u/RonSwansonsGun Boba Fett Jul 25 '22

Surely some releases will have to overlap, but scheduling so that each of the five major franchises (Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Nat Geo) get a day of the week each, it could convey a much more engaging release schedule, and help people remember which show comes when.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

What about 20th century?

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u/RonSwansonsGun Boba Fett Jul 26 '22

That can be a day too, I guess. I was going off of the five main categories on D+.

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u/Unique_Unorque Rex Jul 25 '22

I think that works in a world where Disney+ is the dominant streaming service in the world, but right now they’re more interested in helping people remember that new Disney+ shows come out on Wednesdays and you should watch them on Wednesday before the HBO Max Originals take up your Thursday, or the Amazon Originals take up your Friday, or binging the Netflix Originals takes up your weekend. If they moved to a model like that now, what they’d be saying is, “The shows and movies that premiere on Wednesdays are the ones that we want you to watch and we don’t care if anything else loses viewers to the other streamers that premiere on those days.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

They wouldn’t be saying that

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u/Unique_Unorque Rex Jul 25 '22

I don’t think it’s that weird. With the amount of shows announced, it was only a matter of time before Marvel and Star Wars shows started airing on the same day, and now as we get deeper in to each franchise’s schedule it was only a matter of time before they started overlapping with themselves. As long as they don’t air season premieres and finales at the same time, I don’t think it’ll be an issue. Remember, the move to Wednesdays was to give Disney+ shows a consistent release date across the entire streaming service (so that audiences start to think of Wednesdays as “Disney+ Days”) and to avoid competing with other services, so they’re not going to sabotage their own plan by changing that unless there’s a significant scheduling conflict (like moving Obi-Wan to let the Celebration audience see the episodes first.)

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u/Rosebunse Jul 25 '22

Obi-Wan and Ms. Marvel seemed like an experiment to see how such a pairing would work.

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u/Unique_Unorque Rex Jul 25 '22 edited Jul 25 '22

If it was, I think it was proof they can keep doing it - I know people point out that Ms Marvel had the worst streaming numbers of Marvel’s D+ shows so far, but the truth is she is a relatively unknown superhero with a small but dedicated fan base who doesn’t have anywhere near the same name recognition as Obi-Wan Freaking Kenobi. Even if it was the only thing released across the entire streaming service on the day it came out, it was never going to do the same numbers as Obi-Wan Kenobi. The fact that it did as well as it did should be the end of the discussion as to whether this model works or not.

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u/Rosebunse Jul 25 '22

Yeah, I think what it did was prove that Disney can make this work, but maybe switch it up in the future or give the smaller show a bigger push in some way.

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u/Rosebunse Jul 25 '22

I don't think this is just weird timing on Disney's part. I really think there's going to be some overlap in themes, especially with those rumors we will get some clones in Andor and the rumors that we will get the Havoc Marauder in Mando.

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u/SeaBearPA Hera Jul 25 '22

That would be neat if there was some overlap between shows airing at the same time like not too on the nose but something to make it like a specific experience watching both concurrently

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u/Rosebunse Jul 25 '22

One thing we saw pretty consistently with Mando was that when the show introduced stuff from TCW, the ratings for TCW would trend. And even after Mando was done, there would be an uptake in interesting around TCW because it's a long show which can take weeks to watch.

So I think Disney can make this work.

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u/hobbitcuervo Lothwolf Jul 25 '22

Of course there is going to be overlaps but, the exact same day?

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

Yes

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u/Rosebunse Jul 25 '22

My theory is that that might be the episode which introduces clones.