But I'm almost certainly completely wrong, and I'm sure they have tons of data justifying their investment in new content. I guess I'm biaised since I pay for Disney+ so that my little sister can use it, and original shows weren't important to my decision to subscribe at all.
This feels like it should be illegal. You're certainly paying for D+, and it's not as though Verizon competes in a free market.
If you need to be on Verizon's network, you could go to Visible or another MVNO. If not, there's ATT and T-Mo and all of their MVNOs as well.
But I don’t think I’ve ever streamed any of them other than maybe to show a friend who hadn’t seen them.
Don’t know why that is, but it’s weirdly true.
Where as on streaming you have find it, sit through 2 or 3 studio logos, and then 5-15 minutes of exposition that even in most good movies isn't that good.
Seems they've backed themselves into a corner
I'm just going to throw this out there. What if these shows just aren't that good?
Now there is so much you need to pay attention or you'll miss it. People get sick of drinking out of a firehose.
There were four Star Wars series.
That's too much content.
Two movies a year that Marvel started with was perfect. It gave you tome to unwind, and get hungry for more.
What if they aren't that good in a very calculated, lowest-common-denominator way?
Any really big $$ production has to have really broad appeal to succeed. Maybe the safest way to do that is just to target some minimum threshold for ticket buying on a rainy thursday.
Somehow the branding has become severely distorted, so now these movies make me feel like the studio sees me as a barrier between them and my money.
If Disney can once again make me feel like they're producing content because it's what they love to do, and because they love how we enjoy it, then I'll go back to giving them my money.
Here let me get you caught up. Blue laser sword is good, red laser sword is bad.
Mandalorian reinvented the Western in the Star Wars universe.
Both are superb. The other Star Wars series are not.
The Mandalorian is Western + Ronin / Samurai.
And yes, they're both great.
It was truly excellent. For a complete surprise, do not watch Rogue One first.
I did enjoy the Mandalorian series because at least it had the comic relief of Grogu, if the rest was a bit of a slog.
As far as the jailbreak, I had trouble getting emotionally invested in the outcome, as I found Diego Luna's character to be one-dimensional. Again, the approach was simply shoot your way out.
With Star Wars, creators can ignore the tired Skywalker storyline, plus there's no genre expectations tying creators down (IMO sci-fi is not a genre so much as a meta-genre or motif). At least in theory--they've been pretty reluctant to spread their wings until recently.