I do also have a thought that many Disney's films really need more writing improvements as time passes. One of the main issues is that it is getting more unrealistic, exaggerating and sloppy. Movies are becoming less inspirational and disappointing. Even when you do remakes or based on something, they shouldn't just using CGI or live actions to do so, but actually adding a theme that motivates and inspires.

Likewise, not just remaking The Lion King with new voices and CGIs, and just focusing on remaking everything just for making money. It seems that Disney was more creative and inspirational before. Even when you're talking about 60-70s animations or older franchises films like POTC, 20000 leagues under the sea, the sorcerer's apprentice etc. You can feel a deeper depth of art, emotions and reflections.

Perhaps Disney's older works are much more daring but still realistic. Indeed, with things full of imaginations, yet still brings out messages of struggles, humanity, dreams, and much more. Not just visual effects and cool actions.

And what I think is that what a perfect story or a plot should add their 'imperfections'. In Avengers (I still like the series), everything seems too perfect, like having conversations or jokes in a battle field, saving everybody, always about saving the world, always about high tech stuff and super actions. It makes things seem childish, and bland, and over exaggerating. I know it's pg and superhero, but you can still do more.

In my POV, even when there are plot holes, timeline mistakes, or disapproving scripts in X men, I can feel the emotional depths and struggles, as well as a strong, unyielding theme in every chapter- That how different people are treated and their struggles in society, and how we should treat difference in the right way.

And there are more emotional depths and realistic scenes. Eg. Charles and Erik's reflective views on mutant and human future. Erik could not save his mother and family, and following the path of the man he hates most. Logan's tragic life, Jean's unstable mind, guilt. Charles endless hope and love... Many characters that reflect on humanity, our choices, views, life struggles...

One more outstanding theme is that how powers affect us, like apoc and shaw believing themselves superior and meant to rule all others, while Charles and x men sees their powers as protections to the weaker ones. Just like Hitler vs Lincoln. These powerful beings in fact own a heart of humans. Sometimes what flies high still need times to stay on the ground. Disney in fact can do so, like what they did to good works.

These are but my opnions, which I would like to share. No offense to anything.

I’m afraid I dropped out of the X-Men series because I was too bored, on the other hand I literally forced myself to bear through most of the MCU and in fact there’s multiple movies I have never watched, so.

I think that the point is- like @shinychimera was saying, movies are generally made in a hybrid art/business model and that’s what Disney used to be for most of its history, there’ll be a tension between business requirements and artists’ visions but generally that gave birth to good products - with the occasional Bad Idea, meh thing, piece of weak writing, etc, but mistakes are inevitable and in hindsight everyone can tell what went wrong. Some projects would be given less funding some more, etc etc. Sometimes you expect something to be a bad idea but the audience loves it; sometimes the opposite. But overall you try to go with something that the audience will most likely like because you need the product to be successful.

The problem is that until not so long ago the idea was that for a movie to be successful it had to be good. Which kind of sounds obvious but becomes less obvious when you are a massive megacorporation that has a near monopoly on what gets aired in theaters and massive global brand power.

That’s the difference between the works we grew up with (for me at least it was Howard Ashman’s movies and the rest of the Disney renaissance) and the movies that are being produced now. I think it’s a big difference.

omg I was like... wait did I write that? I found the reply I typed up yesterday where I wrote that, though, so apparently I did :’D

https://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/188284521260/i-kinda-feel-like-the-deancas-tension-in-the

(in my defense, I spent the next 6 hours afterward or so making the transcript of the episode, so now my brain has been squished dry and is back to WHAT R WERDS?! mode again, having been drained of all coherency) :D

BUT OMG that’s a WONDERFUL observation! I mean, Scoobynatural was the sort of in-universe wall-break I think a lot of us would LOVE to get. I know I would personally love to travel to the SPN universe and sit each of them down and tell them a few things, you know? I mean, I literally wrote 143k words of fic about it after s10. Obviously a lot has changed since then, but the main point of it stands, and was the foundation concept of Scoobynatural, too.

If you could go into a fictional world and interact with your favorite characters, what would you tell them? How would they react? How would YOU react in THEIR world? (and the first part of that fic is how would THEY react in YOURS, too)

I think we did get a bit of Dean metaphorically banging his head on a tree over feeling like his life was meaningless, with the whole maze concept:

Dean: Just when we thought we had a choice. You know, whenever we thought we had free will. We were just rats in a maze. Sure, we could go left. Sure, we could go right. But we were still in the damn maze. Just makes you think, if all of it... you know, everything that we've done... What did it even mean?

(also, high five to Last Night Me for finishing the transcript so I have something to easily quote now) :D

I think this is Dean’s version of the head-banging-on-a-tree existential crisis, since he’s not actually a cartoon character. Because just like the Scoobies, they may have questioned the greater meaning of their lives on learning about something apparently much bigger than them, but they were all MORE than happy to slide right back into their previous beliefs and understanding at the end of the episode, too. They WANTED to go back to hunting bad guys in rubber masks, because they legit DID help people that way, and the notion of fighting against something wildly more powerful had broken them. Literally and metaphorically.

It reminds me of Dean’s comment going all the way back to early days of things being “above their pay grade,” or just “this is big” when it came to things like Specky the Wonderdemon in 1.04. Remember when the question of “what happens after death” was “way beyond our pay grade?” (it was 2.16) I think they’ve leveled up to the top pay grade at this point, you know? I think Dean would gladly opt for retirement from Chuck’s regular lineup of viewing entertainment, if it didn’t mean letting the whole planet burn in the process.

But even INSIDE their own universe, Sam and Dean and Cas ARE “fictional characters.” At least, to the readers of the Supernatural novels, they are. And in their world, words like that have power, too. “Tearing up the script,” “making it up as we go,” “rewriting the ending”-- all of these things have been the core of what they’ve been about all along. I think Chuck likes to forget those features of the “characters” he “created.” He made them into what they are, by teaching them how to run his mazes and finding it interesting when they managed to escape so many times, you know? And he might be able to lay down new mazes, but he’s not as heckin’ creative as he thinks he is.

Omg, you know how I see Chuck-As-Author now? Like some punk-ass jerk who hates that some folks are able to see the end coming, hates that his characters are able to spot the escape hatch in his stories, and out of spite wrote a “twist they never saw coming” that only he knows the rules for. But it’s too late, you know? TFW... they’re the endgame everyone is rooting for. Like Metatron trying to set Cas up as the villain but ended up proving his own villainy in the process. Like Zachariah confidently arranging “lessons” for Dean only for Dean to learn the opposite lesson to the one he tried to teach. Same with Gabriel and his lessons to TFW that backfired completely.

Chuck made the mistake, at the very start, of writing Sam and Dean as the heroes. And they’re more than capable of filling those roles, even at the end when Chuck thinks he’s got a different plan for them.

If it’s not clear, I absolute ADORE this thematic aspect of the entire series. :D

Lisa Braeden, the one woman Dean ever actually had a shot at a real life with, back from where he buried her in his mind. And her hand is on Cas' arm like it's no big deal, like it belongs there. Cas, Dean's dorky, sweet, badass, angelic best friend, and he's just standing there next to Lisa and not moving her hand away.

So parts of Mia were suppressed, invisible, one might say, Missing In Action?

Posts on: February 21st

Summary: Dean Winchester knows he has a lot going right in his life--good family, friends--but he can't seem to let go of one nagging regret. He should have left while he had the chance. Instead he's stuck in place wishing for someone he'll never see again.

Cas never thought he'd end up here-- back in his mother's house, taking care of her medical decisions. He planned to take care of everything as quickly as possible and get back home to his daughter--until he runs into a former classmate who insists that he should go to their 10-year reunion that weekend. Cas refuses the offer until he hears that Dean Winchester will be there.

Keep reading for a sneak preview!

Posts on: February 19th

Summary: Dean sees her for the first time in nearly six years in some no-name town in Idaho, and it's panic at first sight.

Lisa Braeden, the one woman Dean ever actually had a shot at a real life with, back from where he buried her in his mind. And her hand is on Cas' arm like it's no big deal, like it belongs there.

Cas, Dean's dorky, sweet, badass, angelic best friend, and he's just standing there next to Lisa and not moving her hand away.Dean feels the jealousy rising, and it's not directed where he expected it to be.

Because it takes this exact moment for Dean to realize — he's in love with his best friend. He's in love with his best friend, and Lisa is looking at Cas like he's the best thing since automatic rifles, and Dean is utterly fucked.

Keep reading for a sneak preview!