Mjolnir being something that can only be wielded by “worthy” people wasn’t one of Odin’s best decisions from a practical standpoint.

I wasn’t saying he didn’t, in fact that’s a part of the point. If doing all that and selling to Disney was advantageous, buying it back would not be. As it stands right now, he’s going against the billionaire director playbook here.

By that logic, why judge any of them? They weren’t made for the people who didn’t like them, right?

There is a difference between the exception and the rule. Which I can’t believe I have to explain when it comes to clowns.

Most clowns would have protected those boys.

He didn’t direct E.T. or remade it and didn’t remake any of the Star Wars movies. And people are really going to hold Howard the Duck as a personally defining misdeed, aren’t they (ignoring that his first associated movie was American Graffiti)? The Star Wars prequels didn’t really ruin anything, they just added to it in a way that wasn’t as interesting as hoped.

Disney, who bought it all, was the one who made the Star Wars sequels (episodes 7, 8, and 9), that and the various TV series, all of which milked opportunities that did not technically exist, which might be indicated in the fact that the sequels looked almost identical to the original trilogy plot-wise. The thing to remember here is George Lucas is willing to go against his better judgment and his own indulgence so-to-speak to prevent further collapse.

And this is coming from someone who didn’t care for any of the movies.

Disney messed up so bad with Star Wars, especially with The Acolyte, that he’s talking about buying back the franchise, something that seems to run counter to his wealth (since he sold it to Disney in the first place) and his patience (considering, say, the reaction to the prequels at the time he had the full helm). It comes off as an entirely popular demand move.

You need to own the franchise first. Unless I misunderstand you.

What about him?

George Lucas comes to mind as an example this week. Am amazed he’s going out of his way to buy back a franchise that almost did him in, all for the fans.

This sums it up for me too.

The regular ten essentials I carry.

I was resolving a conflict once and, instead of saying “make up or breakup”, I said “make out or breakout”. The fact I screwed that up probably helped the conflict cease though.

Clowns. Like, why? You don’t even hear about a fear of clowns in ancient documents/literature.

It depends on the billionaire.

I don’t yet. I just wear thick clothes.

Someone called it insulting once when I donated all my socks that didn’t have a second sock.

I mean yeah, they’re disabilities in the sense that they’re a condition one ends up with that challenges them in some way, but it’s not something “wrong” with a way their body works, it’s just a type of damage someone can receive. They’re also arguably rather excessively easy to use as a stock disability from a storytelling perspective. Imagine if you were making a story and were compelled to give some characters some medical conditions to add to the depth of the story, and you thought “meh, we can just remove a bunch of their limbs”. Or to put it another way, unless the person is a Cyanide and Happiness character, nobody is going to write a biography in their elderly years titled “My Life As A Guy With One Hand” so as much as someone might write one titled “Life As An ADHD Person”.

I have the same semi-complaints (not really complaints per se) about Pokémon. There was one single blind character-of-the-day in the original season (because he was old), the manga version of Bryce was wheelchair-bound (kind of inevitable though for him), and the remake version of Wally was hinted to have asthma, but for two and a half decades of journeying around the world, there was never someone mainstream who popped up who had some kind of uniquely driven medical trait, which after so long doesn’t make you complain but makes you wonder if they’re avoiding it.

I think a remake or sequel of Samurai Pizza Cats would be golden.

Those are injuries though. I mean like an actual medical condition, something like “that character has autism” or “this one has asthma”. We only had one character with a medical condition that was something that wasn’t an amputee, the guy from Rogue One who takes off his breathing mask to take his last breath right before he was about to die. They portrayed it as a dramatic extension of his villainy. “Diversity” in Star Wars is incredibly disappointing.