| coolbeans said: I mean... I guess part of our disagreement stems from reading the room differently. This kind of overinflated proportionality to these complaints just doesn't ring as genuine - aside from the most radical of responses. Most people rebuking Disney Wars aren't mentally framing this as a mini-9/11 or whatever, but rather directly responding the elephant in the room. To see why Disney's lost their influence with this particular market just look at the slop they've recently made. |
I do think the reaction is wildly disproportional.
Your first post was in response to a T-shirt that someone happened to have worn 7 years ago. Yet it's the kind of response that I would give to something if they had some wide marketing campaign - spend 6 or 12 months saying that Star Wars is only for women, and the next Jedi is going to be wearing a pink dress.
I could understand a response like that.
Disney has been struggling on and off with most of their demographics. Even on the animated side, they've had a lot of struggles. Pixar has basically had 1 big success in the past 5 years.
I think the reality of these struggles is not driven by Disney's motivations, I think it's just fundamentally challenging to make something really good in the first place, and it's challenging to continue something.
As you mentioned yourself, some Star Wars fans don't even like George Lucas's changes in the prequel trilogy. I would guess the reason isn't that George Lucas decided he didn't like his fans.
How much harder do you think it is when you try to pass off a franchise to a completely different group of people - who might not have the talent or they might have found something appealing with the original that is very different from most fans.
Or how hard it is in general to build on something? How many stories have poor sequels? It seems like it is very hard to come up with a great idea for a story and characters in the first place, and it seems like it is even harder for creators to expand on those ideas in a meaningful way that is as well loved. It is pretty rare for a sequel to be as critically acclaimed as the original. The Godfather 2 seems like a rare exception, only for Godfather 3 to be talked about very poorly.
None of this requires any kind of indifference or malice towards a fanbase.
