George Lucas Sides With Bob Iger in Proxy Fight for Control of Disney

I was under the impression that Perlmutter is a 'bean counter' who only thinks about the bottom line and not art. George Lucas might not like the choices that Iger made. But he knows that things can be much, much worse under the leadership of people like Perlmutter.

 

You know....a lot of fans are being angry online because of Lucas's support for Iger, but let's face it, he sold to Disney after the awful backlash he got for the PT. Yes, creators do owe their fans, but it doesn't give us the right to bully and harass them. Express your disappointment, but not in the manner showed by the appalling treatment of Jake Lloyd, Ahmed Best, and yes, Rian Johnson. Sometimes we fans can be our own worst enemy.

 

^Agreed

 

Creators don't owe us anything.

 

Iger wins! Shareholders have rejected Peltz.

 

Er...we DO pay their wages!

 

I'll take the money back then.

 

Now that I think about it. I'll take my dividend in Funko Pops. They might appreciate.

 

If creators destroy your favourite franchise, there is a far better way of showing your displeasure than resorting to death threats and social media nastiness.

Stop buying the product. I did.

 

If the franchise is "destroyed" then there wouldn't be any product to stop buying.

 

I'm talking about if it's destroyed for a viewer personally.

 

That would mean that the creators "owed" every individual fan in the context of their own personal demands and needs. I'm opposed to the idea of creator indebtedness in general. But you've got to see how the idea that a debt is owed to each fan based on their opinion of how destroyed they think the franchise is, is astronomically unrealistic.

Also, if you choose to stop dealing with something, you literally cannot be owed anything by them.

 

Well, I simply don't see the point of paying money to watch something I no longer enjoy, I'd rather spend it on my cats!

Creators shouldn't be threatened, that is what I'm saying, but I DO suspect a very few of them seem to like building up a 'fan following' and then deliberately pulling the rug from under a person's feet. There was a large fan following for a series of YA fantasy books years ago where the writer focused on a relationship between two characters ( I didn't read the books myself, but I know a lot of my mates at the time did).
They really loved the relationship, then for apparently no reason the writer chose to end the book series by having the female suddenly drop her boyfriend for another character despite never having romantic feelings for him before. A lot of starry eyed young girls got their hearts broken, believe me, and before someone says 'it's just a fantasy, and people shouldn't get so worked up', most of us need some escapism in our lives, whatever our ages. One of my mates never bought any of the writer's books again, she was so 'burned'. I thought that was a bit spiteful, to be honest, but there ya go.

 

No argument here.

I don't recognise that scenario in the Star Wars franchise. in any way shape or form.