I’m not taking the bait.
Nope. Not even a little bit.
I’ve been following all of this… drama, and all these… shenanigans, and… 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’m staying out of it.
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’s crusade to change Disney’s corporate culture, etc.
See- I get that, along with everyone else. But what I see and others don’t is what Peltz’s daughter, Nicola Peltz- one of my ex-girlfriends- is also trying to do, too. To me.
And I see what Selena is doing, too, with her. See- I know Selena. I get her. I’m quite familiar with her machinations at this point, after having dated her for fifteen years now.
So- nope. No bait is been taken; none is on my plate, and in fact- none is on the menu, either.
For those not privy to what I’m talking about, I’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 much, mind you- but, a bit more than usual. Lately she’s been hanging out a lot with Nicola Peltz… who… well, let’s not get into my history with her, here. That’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… Disney, of course. Remember- Selena was Disney.
So, they’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 “threesomes” with her, Nicola, and Beckham. Which… got my attention. Which she wanted. But what she didn’t is, I think, me noticing such things.
I think. Although perhaps me noticing is what she does want me to think, in which case… well, let’s just say that I see other things too. Things I won’t say, here. So, then.
Well.
Ahem.
No bait, then. I shall wait, and see how this shakes out, and for what reason.
Regardless there are other things happening that I shall stay away from, as well. And… I might write about those things, later.
It looks like… oof, there is yet more controversy about Disney woke stuff all over the internet.
Oof.
I’m talking about the Proud Family movie or something, whatever it is that is the latest in that franchise. Check out the scores on RT.
Critics have the movie at 100%, audiences at 10%.
Oof. Not even going to try watching that one. I have no idea what it’s about, and don’t care. That is just… added drama, that I don’t need to know about or watch. An unnecessary headache.
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.
I guess I’ll never know if I like that franchise or not, or what it’s even about, lol.
I’m kinda… still staying away from a lot of the recent stuff.
Last night I made an exception and took the plunge on one of their newer shows, Gabby Duran and the Unsittables.
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.
But I remember the lead being… very pretty. And she defo is, holy mackerel. I mean this chick is gorgeous.
So I watched the first ep last night and maaaaaan, what an unpleasant experience. I reeeeeeally didn’t like it. I mean the girl was fucking cute as hell but her character was just… oof.
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’s pretty? I mean, that’s what I would do, lol, but that doesn’t exactly make for a compelling narrative.
Audience were very 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.
But like… yeah, okay.
I’d reeeeally not like to waste time writing out yet another spiel on wokeness and politics and all of that nonsense, so I’m going to spare myself a migraine and just stop this one here, thank god.
Oof.