It think it has a lot more to do with how risky it’s seen- the budgets for these films and shows are huge.
Further they’re dinosaurs who still see sci-fi as “not popular” and “risky”- but a lot of that actually has to do with idiots doing broadcasting stupidity.
(Like airing Babylon 5 opposite St:DS9 in a time when DVRs didn’t exist, or mucking with the episode order of firefly, so everyone was extremely confused about who and what was going on in the first few episodes,)
Couple that with needing to include merchandising opportunities (baby yoda, for example,) and generally satisfying corpos that it’s going to turn bigger profits than, say, uh… whatever is currently streaming….
It think it has a lot more to do with how risky it’s seen- the budgets for these films and shows are huge.
Further they’re dinosaurs who still see sci-fi as “not popular” and “risky”- but a lot of that actually has to do with idiots doing broadcasting stupidity.
(Like airing Babylon 5 opposite St:DS9 in a time when DVRs didn’t exist, or mucking with the episode order of firefly, so everyone was extremely confused about who and what was going on in the first few episodes,)
Couple that with needing to include merchandising opportunities (baby yoda, for example,) and generally satisfying corpos that it’s going to turn bigger profits than, say, uh… whatever is currently streaming….