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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by tptacek on Thursday March 14, 2019 @04:11PM (#19393135)
My argument doesn't really depend on where you put Game of Thrones. It's clear to everyone that GoT is HBO's tentpole series; it's critically important to their service. It's not my argument that it's not valuable IP; it's the most valuable IP in television.
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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by EpicEng on Thursday March 14, 2019 @04:18PM (#19393214)
Your entire premise is based upon your perceived quality of HBO's programming.
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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by tptacek on Thursday March 14, 2019 @04:57PM (#19393632)
No, it's not. My argument isn't "The Americans is better than GoT†". My argument is that critics (through reviews) and consumers (through ratings) no longer set HBO's shows apart into a prestige category that HBO dominates. That's an empirically verifiable fact.

† It is, though.

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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by EpicEng on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:19PM (#19393867)
>My argument is that critics (through reviews) and consumers (through ratings) no longer set HBO's shows apart into a prestige category that HBO dominates. That's an empirically verifiable fact.

Based on... ?

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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by tptacek on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:44PM (#19394110)
Viewer ratings and sites like Metacritic? This isn't hard.
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