{"id":4807,"date":"2023-02-10T21:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T03:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2023-02-10T21:44:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T03:44:16","slug":"disney-stuff-part-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4807","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ Stuff, Part VII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not taking the bait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nope.  Not even a <em>little<\/em> bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following all of this&#8230; drama, and all these&#8230; shenanigans, and&#8230; all the rest of it, for weeks now.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And nope- not <em>this<\/em> time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See- I <em>know<\/em> what you guys want me to do, but sorry, I&#8217;m staying out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see the headlines- I know about Disney and the financial stuff, the stock price problems, the theme park issues, the brand problems, and the rest of it- and I see the other attendant news, like Nelson Peltz&#8217;s crusade to change Disney&#8217;s corporate culture, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See- I get that, along with everyone else.  But what I see and others don&#8217;t is what Peltz&#8217;s daughter, Nicola Peltz- one of my ex-girlfriends- is also trying to do, too.  To <em>me<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I see what Selena is doing, too, with her.  See- I know Selena.  I <em>get<\/em> her.  I&#8217;m quite familiar with her machinations at this point, after having dated her for fifteen years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So- nope.  No bait is been taken; none is on my plate, and in fact- none is on the menu, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those not privy to what I&#8217;m talking about, I&#8217;ve been following some odd behavior lately amongst Selena and those around her.  Odd enough, actually, to make me give her a little bit of distance.  Not <em>much<\/em>, mind you- but, a bit more than usual.  Lately she&#8217;s been hanging out a lot with Nicola Peltz&#8230; who&#8230; well, let&#8217;s not get into my history with her, here.  That&#8217;s another essay.  But needless to say we have one, and I think Selena is trying to maneuver me back into a relationship with her, perhaps to draw my attention for some reason to what her father is doing, with&#8230; Disney, of course.  Remember- Selena <em>was<\/em> Disney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, they&#8217;re trying to verrrry subtly draw me in a certain direction, perhaps in fact to do so without me noticing.  Selena has interestingly enough joked publicly about &#8220;threesomes&#8221; with her, Nicola, and Beckham.  Which&#8230; got my attention.  Which she <em>wanted<\/em>.  But what she <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> is, I think, me noticing such things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think.  Although perhaps me noticing is what she <em>does<\/em> want me to think, in which case&#8230; well, let&#8217;s just say that I see <em>other<\/em> things too.  Things I won&#8217;t say, here.  So, then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ahem<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No bait, then.  I shall wait, and see how this shakes out, and for what reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless there are other things happening that I shall stay away from, as well.  And&#8230; I might write about those things, later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks like&#8230; oof, there is yet more controversy about Disney woke stuff all over the internet.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about the <em>Proud Family<\/em> movie or something, whatever it is that is the latest in that franchise.  Check out the scores on RT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics have the movie at 100%, audiences at 10%.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oof.  Not even going to try watching that one.  I have no idea what it&#8217;s about, and don&#8217;t care.  That is just&#8230; added drama, that I don&#8217;t need to know about or watch.  An unnecessary headache.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean with those kinds of scores, watching anything with these characters is like willingly traversing a minefield, when you could walk around it just as easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll never know if I like that franchise or not, or what it&#8217;s even about, lol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m kinda&#8230; still staying away from a lot of the recent stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night I made an exception and took the plunge on one of their newer shows, <em>Gabby Duran and the Unsittables<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember watching a random episode of this back when I was in the hospital a couple of years ago.  I was bleeding out of multiple organs and completely blitzed out of my mind on fentanyl and I remember not minding the show much, then.  IDK, lol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I remember the lead being&#8230; very pretty.  And she defo is, holy mackerel.  I mean this chick is <em>gorgeous<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I watched the first ep last night and maaaaaan, what an unpleasant experience.  I reeeeeeally didn&#8217;t like it.  I mean the girl was fucking cute as hell but her character was just&#8230; oof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It had the same problem as the latest Star Wars stuff.  Simultaneously boring and annoying, in equal quantities.  I mean Gabby herself was just a spoiled brat, a consummate Mary Sue type of character.  I guess she gets everything handed to her on a silver platter because she&#8217;s pretty?  I mean, that&#8217;s what <em>I<\/em> would do, lol, but that doesn&#8217;t exactly make for a compelling narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audience were <em>very<\/em> split on this one.  Some people loved it and others absolutely loathed it.  Personally, I fall into the latter camp, as far as shows go.  I will not be continuing with the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But like&#8230; yeah, okay.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d reeeeally not like to waste time writing out yet another spiel on wokeness and politics and all of that nonsense, so I&#8217;m going to spare myself a migraine and just stop this one here, thank god.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oof<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not taking the bait. Nope. Not even a little bit. I&#8217;ve been following all of this&#8230; drama, and all these&#8230; shenanigans, and&#8230; all the rest of it, for weeks now. And nope- not this time. See- I know what you guys want me to do, but sorry, I&#8217;m staying out of it. 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