If there's one thing I've learned about watching creators get screwed over by their own creations: If you gonna creative rights to your original stories that you are passionate about to big studios, you better be okay with other people getting their dirty hands all over it. Just look at TMNT, fuck tons of iterations and the creators are literally stopped making the original comics themselves as they are swimming in sell-out money.
Hindsight is always 20/20. I think as we go along with the growth of the internet, and the gap between "indie" and "professional" animator closing rapidly, it won't be up to big networks to create and promote things anymore.
The skill and technical gap largely close in the mid 00s but the mindset of you gonna go to Hollywood and sell out to make it big is what's been hampering progress toward creator independence. That and the crab in bucket mentality of those who did sold out and those haven't yet toward those who haven't drank the kool-aid and sold out long been the other major problem.
She has a hard time letting things go such as her dislike of the new She-ra. Honestly, if she keep on declaring they haven't seen Rise of Skywalker, that just makes me wonder if they did see it but are just denying it. Why keep on saying it otherwise?
I noticed in both this and the other video discussing TSR, Geeky and Kneon seem to hold animosity towards Critical Role for, in their words, "glamming up" D&D for a larger audience. That's what I'll never understand about Anti-SJWs; they believe these IPs shouldn't appeal to larger audiences and adamantly scrutinize the ones that do. Gatekeeping simply isn't a good business model to live by and most companies would never even consider it as an option. A good chunk of ground floor fans will not stick around with the same hobbies after 20-30 years, so why cater to the fraction that do?
IIRC, someone said that one of the things about Critical Role was because people who watch it think they know everything about D and D afterwards and they get put off when the DM doesn’t act like Matt Mercer and just do a bunch of voices and impressions for all the characters (including NPCs). To them, it gives a false impression.
I’m not sure TMNT is the cautionary tale you think it is?
The New She-Ra was embarrassing though.
She-Ra was made with the idea of "Holy shit. We are making bank. Wish He-Man had a sister we could make money off of."
