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It's a real phenomena and I'm not sure why it's happening. Every time without fail, the writer's are always uninterested in the source material and mostly known

It's a real phenomena and I'm not sure why it's happening. Every time without fail, the writer's are always uninterested in the source material and mostly known for some imitation of a not so great show. If you're spending literal billions, why not hire a big shot writer who can actually work with the source material instead of shoe horning their fringe political opinions?

TremendousJudge 4y ago
because the "shoehorned political opinions" are not coming from the writer, are coming from market research done by the executives. they will not risk their investment by hiring a writer known for taking risks and having a vision, which ironically is what dooms the product to mediocrity
- selfmodruntime 4y ago
  I thought this at first too, but actual market research shows that real "woke" opinions are about as rare as facist ones. If they did market research, I think they mistook the loud minority on twitter and the internet in general for their larger viewer base. I can't prove my ideas, but I can certainly see Disney losing billions, their CEO leaving and their stock crashing.
- the_third_wave 4y ago
  Given the way most of these politicised productions have been underperforming and sometimes even crashing this seems to be unlikely. It is not the market which demands this type of programming but more likely to be an outflow of the focus on ESG by certain investment companies which will eventually find out their investments tend to loose value if they insist on pushing a political agenda before profitability. These companies are not dealing with their own money so they hold a fiduciary duty towards their clients who are, by and large, not in it for pushing politics. Once their investments start tanking they'll start looking for someone to blame and sue which is when Blackrock, Vantage and the other investment companies pushing ESG will start to feel the heat.

TremendousJudge 4y ago

because the "shoehorned political opinions" are not coming from the writer, are coming from market research done by the executives. they will not risk their investment by hiring a writer known for taking risks and having a vision, which ironically is what dooms the product to mediocrity

selfmodruntime 4y ago
I thought this at first too, but actual market research shows that real "woke" opinions are about as rare as facist ones. If they did market research, I think they mistook the loud minority on twitter and the internet in general for their larger viewer base. I can't prove my ideas, but I can certainly see Disney losing billions, their CEO leaving and their stock crashing.
the_third_wave 4y ago
Given the way most of these politicised productions have been underperforming and sometimes even crashing this seems to be unlikely. It is not the market which demands this type of programming but more likely to be an outflow of the focus on ESG by certain investment companies which will eventually find out their investments tend to loose value if they insist on pushing a political agenda before profitability. These companies are not dealing with their own money so they hold a fiduciary duty towards their clients who are, by and large, not in it for pushing politics. Once their investments start tanking they'll start looking for someone to blame and sue which is when Blackrock, Vantage and the other investment companies pushing ESG will start to feel the heat.