Sean CW Korsgaard

Award-winning freelance reporter, author, US Army veteran, and constant adventurer, seeking great stories and an audience to hear them.

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@ChazNuttycombe Who did more damage to the Virginia GOP long term, Trump or Corey Stewart?

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@GFRobot They've owned the Muppets for almost 20 years, and two movies, two one season TV shows, and a couple of specials are all Disney has done with it, all of it begrudgingly.

They had no clue what to do with them once they bought the Muppets.

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@HappyWarriorP Don't. They're a multibillion dollar company cannibalizing what were once thriving parts of pop culture.

National Geographic thrived for a century as one of the premiere outlets of history and exploration.

Disney had the magazine gutted and stripped for parts in 5 years.

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@HowardAndrewJon @JonathanKoan Honestly that's my one issue.

Denzel is one of the best actors on Earth. He might not be Semitic, but he has the chops for sure.

He's also damn near 30-40 years too old to play Hannibal. He's already older than Hannibal was when he died.

I'd prefer a younger actor.

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@swankmotron Writing trading cards will never not be cool to me.

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@NateSilver538 Conversely, do you see the same spike if the GOP ends up running DeSantis or Haley against Biden?

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@ProjectVirginia Anything about unlocking accounts?

Would love to have my old one back.

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@HappyWarriorP @ThatChrisGore And it's not even the first time Disney has done this to a brand they aquired and failed spectacularly with it.

Remember what happened to the Muppets? How about National Geographic?

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For all the flak he's taking, he's right.
The whole reason Disney bought Star Wars and Marvel was so they'd have some boy brands to pair with their already strong girl brands.
And then for some reason, they asked "How do we get the princess musical crowd to like these?"

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Turning Marvel and Star Wars into girl brands will prove to be one of the costliest decisions in entertainment history.

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@BiblioTheory That Baen Starter Pack video was amazing

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@mains_p WB's issues are of a different sort.

The 2000s they had three MASSIVE in-house hits with Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Batman.

They then spent the 2010s trying to reboot/repeat those successes with the Hobbit, Fantastic Beasts and DCEU... with no real plan for any of them

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Just ask the Muppets what kind of brand manager Disney can be.

To close, a joke:

How does the Walt Disney Company make a brand worth millions of dollars?

They buy one worth billions of dollars.

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Long story short? Disney bought Star Wars and Marvel originally because they were unlike anything Disney had.

They might have killed them by increasingly making both of them more like Disney instead.

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@TheFirstOkiro I want a Thor franchise that treats Norse mythology and Jack Kirby with the same level of reverence as Black Panther treated Afrofuturism.

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@BlkCrownAuthor @TheEbonyMaw Added bonus, I don't think Drinker has ever supported eugenics or genocide.

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@TheEbonyMaw (sigh) Did he call for genocide of a dozen states again, or creep on some Breadtuber lady again this time?