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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8722890" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>I'm still hoping that he was just giving the high level executive summary for idiot investors because even after nearly 50 years on this planet I hold out some hope that high level executives are not as ignorant of their own companies as they always seem to be when they're out there doing their trained monkey dance for the Wall Street crowd.</p><p></p><p>What can I say? I guess I'm an incurable optimist. Like Charlie Brown and that football...</p><p></p><p></p><p>And the thing is - the DC superhero stuff plays really well animated if you can get it in front of the audience for it. My 14 year old devoured Young Justice and is now working their way through the back catalog of DC animated series. </p><p></p><p>The thing I worry about is that the fool thinks that the DC Universe is some kind of premium brand to make big budget movies around and otherwise it should be put into a vault and locked away where nobody can do any damage to it. That's just so stupid and completely misunderstands both what makes superhero characters and narratives work for people and how Disney has been successful at it (let's just say that Disney+ has a ton of animated Marvel content on it that my 14 year old is also devouring).</p><p></p><p></p><p>I put the laugh emoji on your post because there's no "I have to laugh or else I'll cry" emoji.</p><p></p><p>I do think that the AT&T regime was kind of dumb in taking HBO and moving it from being the "premium brand" and into it being their dumping ground for everything they make. They should have come up with a different brand for their streaming service. But his proposed solution to that misstep just sound so dumb that I have to believe that they're after-the-fact justifications for ways to try to save money to try to quickly recover the money they spent on Warner buying it from AT&T (which, BTW, is what I suspect really drove all of the cancellations they did the other week - the fact that they could save 3/4 of a billion dollars in tax write-offs by cancelling the work instead of finishing it. A scramble to find as much money as they could make in as short a time possible rather than any actual judgment of its creative merit).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8722890, member: 19857"] I'm still hoping that he was just giving the high level executive summary for idiot investors because even after nearly 50 years on this planet I hold out some hope that high level executives are not as ignorant of their own companies as they always seem to be when they're out there doing their trained monkey dance for the Wall Street crowd. What can I say? I guess I'm an incurable optimist. Like Charlie Brown and that football... And the thing is - the DC superhero stuff plays really well animated if you can get it in front of the audience for it. My 14 year old devoured Young Justice and is now working their way through the back catalog of DC animated series. The thing I worry about is that the fool thinks that the DC Universe is some kind of premium brand to make big budget movies around and otherwise it should be put into a vault and locked away where nobody can do any damage to it. That's just so stupid and completely misunderstands both what makes superhero characters and narratives work for people and how Disney has been successful at it (let's just say that Disney+ has a ton of animated Marvel content on it that my 14 year old is also devouring). I put the laugh emoji on your post because there's no "I have to laugh or else I'll cry" emoji. I do think that the AT&T regime was kind of dumb in taking HBO and moving it from being the "premium brand" and into it being their dumping ground for everything they make. They should have come up with a different brand for their streaming service. But his proposed solution to that misstep just sound so dumb that I have to believe that they're after-the-fact justifications for ways to try to save money to try to quickly recover the money they spent on Warner buying it from AT&T (which, BTW, is what I suspect really drove all of the cancellations they did the other week - the fact that they could save 3/4 of a billion dollars in tax write-offs by cancelling the work instead of finishing it. A scramble to find as much money as they could make in as short a time possible rather than any actual judgment of its creative merit). [/QUOTE]
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