Disney’s Strange Behavior Explained

Disney’s Strange Behavior Explained

 

Lately Disney has been producing flop after flop, which are ruining IPs that Disney has acquired, such as Star Wars and Doctor Who. These failures are partly due to mismanaging IPs, partly due to ham-handed culture-war hectoring, and partly due to cringeworthy dialog, wooden characters, chaotic pacing, idiot plots, amateurish costuming, and mediocre special effects. But why those reasons?

Here are three theories for Disney’s strange behavior:

* Monopolistic Business Practices. Disney is a monopoly. Their business plan is to eliminate the competition. One way is to buy that competition, then ruin its brand by wretched writing and ham-handed culture-war hectoring. Maybe Disney doesn’t ruin IPs to push DEI: maybe instead they push DEI to ruin IPs. The true-believers who do the dirty work are useful idiots for their scheming bosses.

* Money Laundering. The Acolyte spent $180,000,000 for mediocre special effects. Why? Maybe the execs skimped on special effects and kicked back most of the money to themselves and their friends-of-friends.

* Tax Fraud. In “The Producers”, by Mel Brooks, two corrupt producers run a fraudulent scheme for making money by producing a deliberately failed show, then writing off the loss in taxes. Maybe Disney is doing the same.

All three of these theories can be true at the same time, and indeed can synergize. Disney targets a competing IP: they buy it, then deliberately ruin it by inept writing from useful idiots, by performative diversity hiring, and by skimping on costuming and special effects. The money not spent is kicked back to the execs and their friends-of-friends. The shows fail, the IP is ruined, and the cost to Disney is an investment in monopoly maintenance. Then they write off the loss to evade taxes.

Let’s not rule out the possibility of blackmail. Maybe Leslye Headland’s work as procurer for Harva the Hutt earned her compromat on Disney execs, making her unfireable.

          I admit that these theories are purely speculative. The only evidence I have for them is what we see on the screen. It’s possible that instead of Disney being that crooked, Disney is that incompetent.

I recommend that the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice act to break up Disney for monopolistic business practices. The DoJ should also investigate money laundering and tax fraud.