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well, well, well.
well, well, well, well.
well, well, well, well, well, well, WELL.

seems no one has input any data in these shiny new supposedly safe nso forums yet, save for the introductory launch message made by the nso themselves of course.
i suppose it's up to me to do the honors.

tell me, when you think of classical movies what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
asking for research purposes of course.

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Clearly, it's some kind of psychological compulsion among the weak-minded.

i think some people just don't know how to keep their cool around someone who has awesome powers.
after all, i think ice powers are something most people would get jealous of!

you do have ice powers right?
i would certainly be making a jackass of myself if after all these puns it turns out that you don't, in fact, have ice powers.

No, I do. I wouldn't have brought it up otherwise.
I'm also not THAT sensitive about it, so you can...
...chill.

wow.
getting some second-degree burns with the frost-bite you're throwing my way.
didn't know i'd be talking to someone so cold.
but i suppose i deserved the chilly reception.

how about instead we drop it with the powers talk and instead play it cool, yeah?
we can maybe talk about something else.

like if elsa isn't your favorite disney princess, who is?

Well, their adaptation of Odette was very good, once they finally started actually getting back into princess films that weren't for selling dolls of snowmen.
And ballet. No one ever talks about what a big gap they had in ballet adaptations.
But I think the best one is still probably Mulan, from the 2D era.
Not ENTIRELY because of Reflection.
But mostly.

oh man odette was so underrated!
that was back when they started appreciating classical storytelling again too.

man, i forgot how disney actually used to be good once upon a time and not actually own half the world.
but that was also just after that period where they crashed the movie industry.
it's amazing how such a good movie can be surrounded with such dark times.

i wonder if the world would have been a better place if they stuck with such films.

The reality is, in a transnational economy, businesses naturally gravitate toward monopolies.
Hence, Megacorps.
Whoever fills a niche most efficiently, in terms of profit, fills the entire niche.
Occasional mismanagement or externality is the only thing standing between any business being "the biggest" in its industry and "the only" in its industry.
And if that mismanagement or externality happens WHILE the company has a monopoly...
Well, in the case of media studios, pop cultural wasteland.
It could have been worse. It could have been the power company.

or the medical industry.
as fucked up as that had gotten for a period, at least it was never dictated by a single monopolizing force at any singular point.
but i think that's also what makes media history interesting too.
there are so many points in time where individual forms of entertainment have almost been completely monopolized and you can almost see the waves and effects those moments had in the very media itself.
and the ways people had rebelled against such things.
some of the protest anti-disney underground animated media between the 60's and 70's were really something to see.
shame most are in such horrible quality these days.

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