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  1. Comment on Disney’s wildest ride: Iger, Chapek and the making of an epic succession mess in ~tv

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    I wondered if it was that, but at the time they stated that they valued Beats Music at "slightly less than $500 million", with Beats Electronics making up the rest.

    I wondered if it was that, but at the time they stated that they valued Beats Music at "slightly less than $500 million", with Beats Electronics making up the rest.

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  2. Comment on Disney’s wildest ride: Iger, Chapek and the making of an epic succession mess in ~tv

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    I think I'd forgotten about Dre too. Apple paying $3 Billion (!) for Beats seems crazy to me.

    I think I'd forgotten about Dre too. Apple paying $3 Billion (!) for Beats seems crazy to me.

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  3. Comment on Disney’s wildest ride: Iger, Chapek and the making of an epic succession mess in ~tv

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    A long, in-depth article about the bungled succession from Iger to Chapek at Disney, that at times sounds like it's from a script of Succession the TV show. The Watch Podcast discussed the...

    KEY POINTS
    What did a private bathroom, Oogie Boogie and a hippo have to do with the behind-the-scenes chaos between Bob Iger and Bob Chapek at Disney?
    Here’s the inside story of a CEO succession plan gone awry — a cautionary tale about ego and hubris at the highest levels of corporate America.
    This article is based on conversations with more than two dozen people who worked closely with Iger and Chapek between 2020 and 2022.

    A long, in-depth article about the bungled succession from Iger to Chapek at Disney, that at times sounds like it's from a script of Succession the TV show. The Watch Podcast discussed the article, to ask serious questions - like why did Chapek want Disney to be like tech companies, instead of the powerhouse that it already is, and whether it was ultimately his refusal to accept the repercussions of the earnings report that ended his tenue - and to a play a fun game of "Which Bob are you?": Do you live for "two shower days", going from yachting to schmoozing with celebs, or are you “a tuna salad sandwich who sits in front of spreadsheets”, who'd prefer to hang out in Westlake Village and go kayaking?

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  5. Comment on Oh dear, George Lucas! Why the Star Wars universe is going from bad to worse in ~tv

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    The author seems to contradict the headline here. If Ahsoka isn't as bad as previous efforts, how can Star Wars be going from bad to worse? Speaking of the Kenobi series though, I never watched...

    The worst thing is that, as tortuously slow as Ahsoka is, it still isn’t bad by Star Wars standards. It isn’t bad on the scale of the pointless Obi-Wan Kenobi series, or that last JJ Abrams film ...

    The author seems to contradict the headline here. If Ahsoka isn't as bad as previous efforts, how can Star Wars be going from bad to worse?

    Speaking of the Kenobi series though, I never watched the series but there's a few 2 hour edits of it floating about (that try to re-shape it back to a movie again) - of them "The Boonta Eve Redux" is the one I liked the most.

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  6. Comment on Ahsoka - S01E04 Discussion in ~tv

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    I enjoy watching this show, even though each episode seems to have at least one terrible line (ep 4's was Jacen's "I've got a bad feeling" - Rogue One showed how to reference these phrases,...

    I enjoy watching this show, even though each episode seems to have at least one terrible line (ep 4's was Jacen's "I've got a bad feeling" - Rogue One showed how to reference these phrases, without it sticking out like a sore thumb, and that was in 2016).

    This episode was one where the bad guys had to get a win for the plot to more forward, but I still found it thrilling - some decent fights, a reveal about Marrok that would've disrupted some fan theories about his identity, and a pre-hyperspace-jump destruction of opposition ships that didn't seem as questionable as when they did it in The Last Jedi.

    I've never watched Clone Wars or Rebels, so it's only when the camera lingers for a bit longer than it should on something that I realise I'm missing some background info. Maybe I'd enjoy it more if I'd seen those shows, but as it is, I maybe get the extra enjoyment from seeing Ray Stevenson as Baylon that someone who never saw Rome isn't getting.

    We'll see how it goes with the introduction of some sort of time travel I guess - other franchises suggest it's something you have to be very careful with: once you use it to solve one problem, the natural question becomes: well, why don't you use it to solve every problem.

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  7. Comment on Battle Royale, revisited in ~movies

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    (Re-submitted as an article rather than a text post) Another article which goes into more detail about the film is here, although that is from 2015 (so it's not the 15th Anniversary anymore, and...

    (Re-submitted as an article rather than a text post)

    Another article which goes into more detail about the film is here, although that is from 2015 (so it's not the 15th Anniversary anymore, and they couldn't have foreseen the Squid Game phenomenon obviously)

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  9. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~movies

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    Okay, thanks. Will do.

    Okay, thanks. Will do.

    2 votes