WordsAreSomething t1_itzno6v wrote on October 27, 2022 at 2:05 PM

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Budget matters depending on the genre of show. If you tried to reduce the budget of HotD it would make the show significantly worse.

The budget of a sitcom or straight drama program probably doesn't matter that much, but for a show of this nature is changes the quality dramatically.

Radulno t1_itzo480 wrote on October 27, 2022 at 2:08 PM

Shows about space have been done on cheap budgets decades ago (so you were paying more for less, effects wise). Star Trek, Stargate, Farscape, BSG and such. If that show is even half as good as those classics, first I'll be very surprised and I'd call that a win. It'll likely still cost more (even with inflation) and be way shittier though.

We don't even from what budget they reduced it, if it was huge it can still be big even with a big reduction (like going from 20M to 10M an episode, it's a drastic reduction of 10M per episode but it's still a lot left). It also simply depends the story they want to tell and we don't know that.

WordsAreSomething t1_itzotgn wrote on October 27, 2022 at 2:13 PM

Shows that are set in space have been done on a budget because the setting for a show in space doesn't need to be more than a set of a ship with some windows with space comped onto it.

Those shows don't have a character interacting with space regularly. And even if you took space out of it entirely like the Green Lantern movie did, the CGI required to make action scenes with the character high quality requires a budget.