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You have to mentally be 6 if you’re enjoying the garbage they’re chucking onto Disney+.

I recently did a month of Disney+ when they sent me promo for first month for $2.99.

During that month I watched the Pixar movies Soul, Luca, and Turning Red (and rewatched Onward). I also watched the Disney movies Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto. And Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs. Oh, and also the latest Dr. Strange and Thor Marvel movies, plus the Loki series.

Are you seriously claiming that all that was garbage?

Isle of Dogs is great! Disney+ is hardly the only place you can watch it though, and a lot of the other original Disney programming feels like Marvel-driven padding. The latest Pixar stuff is pretty mediocre relative to what they were making a decade ago, and Disney's modern films are... sketchy.

If you get a kick out of it, then more power to ya. Disney even gives you a place to put your money where your mouth is. For my money though, there's a lot more entertainment value to be found elsewhere.

> The latest Pixar stuff is pretty mediocre relative to what they were making a decade ago

What they were making a decade ago was Cars 2 and Brave.

Brave was pretty good, but I'm having a hard time seeing it as better than Soul, Luca, or Turning Red. And I'm having an even harder time seeing that for Cars 2.

Haven't seen Turning Red yet, but I enjoyed Brave more than Soul or Luca by a country mile. Different strokes for different folks, I guess, but Pixar's best work feels well behind them now.

NGL, until the last sentence I thought you were going in a completely different direction with this comment. I haven't seen Isle of Dogs, but the rest of that sounds like garbage / kids' stuff.

Yes

The Owl House is one of the best modern western animated series available right now. Of course Disney cancelled it because "it didn't fit to the Disney brand". If you're into animated series, that is one not to miss. Yeah, I am too very surprised it was on Disney+...

I'm still hoping for a DVD release, but I doubt it will happen because Disney. It took ages for Gravity Falls.

Andor is one of the better shows I've seen - ever. Their Star Wars offerings in general have been very well put together.

What about the other 99.999% of their content?

I imagine most viewers only watch .001% of everything they have access to; the rest of it would be properly irrelevant.

That makes sense!

Back in my day, we were waited 15 years for more Star Wars content, then immediately regretted it and asked what we'd been doing with our lives.

it really is an amazing show. I hope it does very well. However I can forsee two groups; the first, who won't watch because "it's star wars and i'm not into star wars"; the second, "i like star wars but this show doesn't have any light sabers or jedis or the force - why would i watch it?? boring!"

Or, someone could be so burnt out on the dozens of new Star Wars offerings (representing hundreds of hours of wildly-varying quality video) that they've given up on it.

Ditto Marvel.

I like your contrasting SW with Marvel here.

I'm not into SW and less into Marvel (I'm repulsed by ubiquitousness).

That said, I found Mandalorian, Boba Fett and Andor all enjoyable; I'm guessing because they stand pretty much alone.

Likewise, I dig Pennyworth and Legion. I was well into watching both before I realized they were Marvelesque. Less Marvel seems to be my favorite Marvel.

The Star Wars shows are very bland and generic plots with Star Wars layered on top (at least the ones I’ve watched). They aren’t very good as shows if you aren’t instantly wowed just by the fact that they are in the SW universe.

I don’t use my account, but you’d be surprised what’s on there. It’s not just WokeWars and Finding Nemo.

To paraphrase Richard Adler, all films are children's films.

It's like the existence of 40+ year old Harry Potter fans; the ones who were already adults when the books were first published. Hard to explain unless you acknowledge that many people are simple.

(At least with Star Wars, nostalgia for something they got into during childhood is a plausible explanation for anybody under 60 or so. But even so, I'm surprised more people don't grow out of it.)

> It's like the existence of 40+ year old Harry Potter fans...Hard to explain unless you acknowledge that many people are simple.

That's a weird take. I read the books as an adult and they were genuinely entertaining. What's hard to explain about that? It's not as if books marketed to children are the only things I read, but I've read a lot of children's books as an adult that were delightful.

Why judge people as being simple? I hope you aren't afraid to try something that isn't marketed to your demographic out of fear that people will think the same of you. Most people aren't so weirdly judgey, and people afraid to step outside of the boundaries drawn for them by marketers are probably missing out on creative works they'd really enjoy.

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