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Apple Plays Scrooge with ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
Apple is evil.
Charles Schultz’s iconic seasonal television “Peanuts” specials will not air on broadcast TV this year for the first time since 1965. And Apple is to blame. They announced that since Apple TV+ acquired exclusive rights to the entire library of Charles Schulz’s animated specials, the holiday trio of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” will only be available on Apple TV.
Apple is especially tone-deaf since the central theme of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is the misguided commercialization of Christmas. To quote from the character Lucy, “You’ve been dumb before … but this time you really did it.” Is there nothing good in America that big tech won’t despoil?
Apple should actually watch the Christmas episode to hear Linus tell them what Christmas is really all about:
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Like I want TV from the sponsors of Burn Loot Murder.
As mentioned above, one does not have to be an AppleTV+ subscriber to view them during the “free to stream” window. Subscribers get an extended period to watch the specials.
And I believe that one tear free is with the purchase of a newiPhone, iPad, AppleTV, or Mac.
Of course, you have to have a recent enough “smart TV” . . . or gather everyone around the warm glow of an iDevice.
In other words, this “free” year has other costs involved.
Access to entertainment is being put behind ever more specialized walls. It’s enough to make someone just give up on tv and movies altogether.
We’ve identified a new disorder: ADS (Apple Derangement Syndrome). One of its key characteristics is the association of all problems exclusively with Apple. Sufferers continue to support all the other BLM useful idiots (Amazon, Netflix, their favorite sportsball team, Walmart, Costco) while focusing their invective exclusively on Apple. So-called “conservatives” become indistinguishable from Bernie supporters in decrying corporate greed, somehow expecting to receive the fruits of the labor of others without having to pay.
Well, yeah. Never said otherwise. AppleTV+ subscription is $5/month. Apple apparently makes enough on its physical products to throw in a one-year subscription.
As far as the need for a streaming device is concerned, I reckon many Ricochetti have a Netflix or Hulu subscription. (At least that’s what I infer from a lot of posts I’ve seen in the past.) One needs a streaming device to watch Netflix, Hulu, etc. If you’re one of these folks, you don’t need to purchase anything to stream the CB specials during the “free access”period.
I’d just buy the DVDs, but to each his own.
*Edited to correct grammar.
Just buy the DVDs. While you can!
Nope. My dad just signed up for a free year so he could watch the new Tom Hanks movie, “Greyhound.” My dad is WAY too cheap to buy a new device.
You can watch on any internet connection with a browser.
People are making claims here without knowing the facts.
I think you’re right. People are really over reacting on this.
Dang! He got a good deal then! Kudos! I’ve only seen the offer with the purchase of a new device.
How did your dad like Greyhound? I’m thinking of giving it a watch?
My dad spent a lot of time on tin cans in the navy and he loved it. It’s one of the best movies I’ve seen.
Well, looks like I have to make some time this weekend to watch it. Thanks for the info.
I really hate how watching movies and television have become solo activities rather than the collective activities they used to be. As mentioned above, I don’t want to gather people around an iPhone to watch a tv show.
Actually, I cancelled all the others, too. I’m not some child who needs to be lectured to about moral consistency by a would be expert. And life is good. But you keep making your moral relativist excuses and celebrating the greed. If one can’t serve as a good example, then they can serve as a horrible warning.
Frankly, it’s usually been a solo activity and a very passive activity. Unless you’re talking during the movie and laughing about it, it’s just being alone together. I never understood why going to a movie was a popular thing as a date because you sit in the dark and watch a movie and you don’t (usually) interact with your date.
I should be more concerned with the passivity more than the solitariness.
Actually, a date’s response to the movie, both spontaneously with laughing and crying and such, as well as their ideas and their response to your ideas about a movie, is a good way to filter psychopaths and Democrats from the gene pool. Not perfect, and just one tool in the toolkit, but an important one.
Hmm. Back in the 90s when I used to go to more movies, I always went with groups of friends. I’ve never gone to a movie by myself. We also used to watch certain TV shows together as a group. It made the experience more fun to share it.
I wonder if that still happens? Maybe it’s a generational thing.
How old are you?
Going to movies with a group of friends is awesome (and then of course going out for coffee or burgers afterwards!). I fear that with coronavirus and so many home-viewing options, it’s pretty much a thing of the past.
I love going to movies by myself occasionally too. In summer, when it’s too hot to concentrate on anything, and your significant other is out of town visiting the in-laws, and you have an un-spoken-for Saturday afternoon, there is nothing more sublime that sitting in a dark, cool theater and losing yourself in a movie.
We used to like going to the movies when we were younger (maybe it was being with friends before, during, and after). But then we got tired of people talking through the film, outrageous concession prices, etc. Watching at home is more enjoyable now.
What I meant is that even with a group or a date, you’re still in the dark and not interacting with anyone.
That’s why you go out to a restaurant afterwards. And did you ever notice that comedies are funnier when watching with a group? Because people are more prone to laughing out loud when others around them are laughing. And of course, at home there’s plenty of interaction because it’s not unacceptable to talk back to the screen. (At least it wasn’t for us.) Heck, when I sit down to watch a movie with my kids, we always provide our own commentary track. It’s fun.