Board Thread:Television/@comment-11220539-20171103051010/@comment-3048593-20180513064926

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: KalKent wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: KalKent wrote: Took them a while for them to pull the life-support, but 'Inhumans' has been officially cancelled by ABC. So much wasted potential. Those poor actors, those poor characters. Seriously, how dare Marvel rush something out so poorly made? Easily blame Buck, Perlmutter, and even Loeb for that. Even after the initial reactions to the IMAX screening made it known how much of a disaster it was, Buck was still talking about him having plans for what to do in seasons 2 and 3, and Loeb about how there were more plans for using IMAX for future shows (this was before even ABC acknowledged how big of a mistake it was).

Although for the actors I wouldn't worry too much about. Like Anson Mount (Black Bolt) just found a role in the upcoming season of NBC's 'Star Trek: Discovery'. When I spoke to Annabell about it, she mentioned how she was a fan of him in his previous show 'Hell on Wheels', but was deeply disappointed in what they did with him in 'Inhumans'. While Buck and Loeb definitely each have their own shares of the blame, I fully blame IMAX and Perlmutter. IMAX for even asking for something that last-minute for their September slot, and Perlmutter for jumping at the chance to shove the CGI-heavy Inhumans in there instead of requesting a special AoS or Agent Carter movie or something to be made (easily could've been a crossover movie that had Vigilante Quake and Outlaw Nomad teaming up between seasons 3 and 4 or something), something that could actually be managed on a low budget and short time frame but still be good.

Loeb can't really do anything if Perlmutter forces his hand except hire a showrunner, which happened to be Buck, who proved on Iron Fist that he can meet deadlines and be cheap, two of Perlmutter's favorite things. Since Perlmutter still has the final word on what happens on the TV front of Marvel, it makes me scared of what might with future planned projects, even if some of the other stuff turned out fine like AoS, the Netflix shows, and YA/teen material like 'Runaways' and 'Cloak & Dagger' (the latter of which got great early reception for its pilot episode). I heard with how AoS changed in quality by not having it tie too much into the movies like it did in the earlier seasons, had to do with Perlmutter not being involved in it anymore, so there is still potential.