Message:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFl_2dL_ts
Skip the first three-quarters, a rehash that Disney had no idea nor desire to preserve the IPs they purchased. It was merch to them and that cash market is fading. Amazing how badly Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Marvel have fallen. Disclosure, I as an anti-All Three tended to enjoy each debacle. But even I can see how the scripts could have been so much more with even a small focus group of superfan opinions considered sincerely.
The end of the video rant, LINK, about end of American comic books retail, is sad. Again not part of that audience (mostly) but surprised sales are fallen, mostly from bad story and over explaining of character twisted motivation as opposed to accepting simple heroic values.
Why is Bat Man? Because Gotham needed him. That's my take. Why is Conan? Your questions = WTF?!?
HBO dropped the license to make a Conan universe (Game of Thrones adult level content) because with ME-TOO, the execs wanted to continue getting invites to Met Gala, rather than feed the hunger for content of us in the Trailer Park trash greater society.
Instead we get a Brit import, Naked Dating. Which has nothing to do with dating in a nudist colony and looks like Japanese game show, meat market slow reveal of first genitalia, then breasts then face of contestants in plastic cubes. Idiocracy is the Soothsayer Sybil. Academy Award goes to 98-minutes of Ass Scratch.
Elite mock us as rubes, instead of taking our cash. Where is Spielberg? He once knew how to tell a story for the unwashed masses.
Yours,
IronRed
02-Oct-2023