The PT exist and are bad, just not insultingly bad, kept things in line enough nor take a dump on OT. I was mostly bored with a couple WTF, boos. 'Sand' and 'NNNOOOOOO' jokes still has me laughing. Then there are damn good videos mocking the hell out of it. Even a history channel decided to make a sand joke. For all the bad we got something good out of it which I can't say for NuSW.
TFA opening crawl insanity foreshadowed how bad things were going to be. It instantly set off the WTF alarm as it couldn't wait to poochie SW fast enough among many, many legitimate issues. So many in fact it takes a multi-hour video to discuss the objective issues within.
Other than the excellent last 1/3 of Rogue One(Really annoyed this isn't rogue squadron) the only thing good I have gotten out of NuSW is this:
I can't stop laughing as it encapsulates a lot of what is wrong with NuSW.
>It's as the business requires emotional investment to stay viable.
Again, we are *not* going to agree on this. Rephrasing your opinion isn't going to change my mind.
>Using the Simpsons is the lamest irrelevant example you could have given.
Using one of FOX's most defining, most stable, most basic properties is a 'lame example' of how little care FOX has given their properties over the last 20 years?
Yeah... no. FOX has not only allowed Zombie Simpsons to continue running for so long, but they've pretty much forced it into the formulatic shell of what it once was, with their Scooby-Doo celebrity of the week, merchandising, and lead-ins to new shows. The Simpsons Movie *is* what FOX is.
It is a factual observation with plenty of evidence to back it up. It isn't an opinion. You seeing eye to eye isn't a requirement.
Nobody is disagreeing with "Simpsons" Bad. It's failure before it's zombie state and fall from relevance wasn't self induced. The Simpsons literally fell out of relevance the moment the 90's ended. It got finished off by Family Guy which made dropping it painless. The problem is that the Simpsons still has too much inertia to kill, it's been there so long it's a de facto institution or a US weapons program. While I don't know who is watching it there are enough things with eyes.
While it's saddled with The Simpsons it does try to do something new, crass, risky, let it out loose long enough for it to play out on it's own terms after many good season.(Firefly exception)
If nothing else it gave us Seth McFarland amazing talent. Orville has moved well beyond parody and ST shadow quite a while a go. It was an immensely risky at the time considering it was up again "STD" which turned out to be clown shoes terrible. I am legit interested in where every character on the ship is going, their serious stories. I want to know more about that crazy cool looking alien who gave Bortus porn.
Seth loves ST, he loved it so much he made videos of himself playing ST. His emotional investment has made an infinity greater show. He has rewarded our investment, our trust. In return among many positive things he gets money.
Imagine if Feige didn't care, you get DC movies.
Disney? Yeah right. When you are burning people out on the second movie and people are pointing out how the Beauty and the Beast remake strangely regressive while the original is empowering in tone something is wrong. The company is the zombie. Simpsons at least isolated itself. Even Incredible 2 was a strangely hollow messy retread of the first with a bizarre ending that deflates it. PIXAR, BRAD BIRD, how did this happen? It shouldn't have but it did.
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