Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I'm off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here's the proof.

    • exocortex@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      161·
      9 months ago

      I think Loki was nice. Au least it was nice to look at. For Star Wars I recommend “Andor” which is maybe the best Star Wars ever made (of one removes the nostalgia-factor from the original trilogy). But seeing the rest on Disney+ Andor seems like an incredibly unlikely fluke. The one thing that luckily sneaked by the Disney content police. The one thing that wasn’t dumbed down by endless focus-grouping and insertions of memberberry-characters and -items.

      • JasSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        68·
        9 months ago

        I also didn’t feel preached to, which is the Disney watermark today. Characters were interesting and complex, no matter their sex or skin colour, and not once did we have an oppression/capitalism monologue. Just a good story which everyone could enjoy. Such a rarity for Disney now.

        • Kanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          9 months ago

          Andor not about oppression? Did you watch with your eyes closed?

          • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Andor was about people living in a world ruled by an oppressive authoritarian regime which put little value on life hence was calously violent.

            And as people they were vastly more complex than merelly good or evil, at time acted in stupid ways, others in intelligent ways, sometimes made the greatest sacrifices for others and other times were selfish and self-centred.

            All that meant we could empathise with them because they were like us, only in that imaginary universe and those imaginary circumstances.

            This is what great Acting is all about and this is, IMHO, how you make viewers deep down “get it” how it is to be in that kind of situation (which for some leads them to understand the “other” side).

            Living by proxy that “truthful living under imaginary circumstances” of a good actor with a good script is how you get people to understand, not political speech decorated with a few bits and bobs from an imaginary universe to try and disguise its nature as “present day politics opinion making”.

            PS: I suspect that it’s actually not by chance that both Andor and Rogue One, which was maybe the most full-bodied Star Wars film (in the sense that it was as good “chewing gum for the brain” as Ep4-6 but also had more depth), have the same actor cast as a main character.

          • JasSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            24·
            9 months ago

            Please re-read my comment. Oppression was a theme, yes, but there were no oppression monologues. Ridiculous cringe like this. Instead, the writers told good stories and didn’t rely on beating viewers over the head with ham-fisted messages.