Ok, you did your duty to the CCP for today, comrade.
Anyolduser
joined 1 year ago
If you believe this, you need to start hanging out with better people.
That's not what I meant and you know it. Don't be a dick.
I think it would be fair to say that Marvel post acquisition has much less direction as a whole. Disney's track record of not having anything resembling a plan for their IPs makes "experimentation" look a lot more like "floundering".
Fan loyalty will keep things going for a while, but I don't think we'd be hearing the phrase "superhero fatigue" nearly as often if Disney wasn't running the show.
I could not disagree more strongly.
I ... don't follow.
Have you been drinking?
Oh I'm quite sure.
Just the hyperspace ramming alone shows the massive problems with that script. For the first time in the IP, every ship with a hyperdrive is a fleet shattering WMD. This immediately leads people to ask "If they could do that why don't they always do that? Why don't they rig up torpedoes that are nothing but a hyperdrive with a droid taped to it?"
Johnson wanted a pretty image and a trumped up climax, so he added hyperspace ramming because fuck whoever needs to write that into future films. Sure as shit, Abrams has to come back in the next move and try to handwave it away by having someone say "it was a one in a million shot".
Disney let Johnson do whatever he wanted to an IP they paid ungodly amounts of money for, and other people had to come clean up the mess and take the blame for it. This entire problem could have been solved by Disney leadership giving a shit, having a long term plan, and supervising the people executing that plan.
The Last Jedi. The guy fucked the canon so bad Abrams had to come back with "somehow Palpatine returned" to try to salvage any semblance of a storyline.
That's my argument: that Disney gets impatient and squanders their IP. They paid billions of dollars for Star Wars and fucked it up. They have been fucking up Marvel and will continue to fuck it up in similar fashion.
Yeah, I'm saying that Disney doesn't know how to responsibly manage an IP, including Marvel.
EDIT: Apparently I didn't make myself clear, the rot is at the top. Disney does this shit with all of their major IPs, Marvel, Star Wars, and their bullshit live action remakes.
There's a lot of space between "let's try something new" and letting Rian Johnson take a hot, steaming dump on your IP because he feels like being an iconoclast. Disney fucks up every property they touch.
At every turn Disney execs seem to be in a terrible fucking hurry and keep going off half cocked instead of working methodically and preserving the integrity of the IPs they spent billions acquiring. You'd think that if you spent enough money to build a moon colony you wouldn't shoot from the hip as much.
Wow, "not liking the CCPs unfair trade practices makes you a racist" is the most dogshit take I've seen on Lemmy. And that's saying something.