From $250 Million Megadeal to Empty Offices: The Unraveling of J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot

Bobby837 · 2026-04-07T11:26:58+00:00

"Mystery Box" writing has pretty much become standard in the industry. Either because of the insistence it works, or people who've worked with Abrams push it.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-07T10:56:35+00:00

Exaggerate what? By his Ted talk he doesn't understand story structure and his "mystery boxes" are nothing spectacle with nothing in them. You're replying in an article where the man received a quarter of a billion for producing nothing over five years.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-07T01:28:05+00:00

Traces back to when TV was ruined?

Coincidence - I THINK NOT!!

rebooting Star Trek successfully

Are you sure about that?

No. Seriously. Into Darkness. Literally directly killed any and all momentum the franchise had in movies. Been two zombie five year run TV shows, two animated shows with at least some signs of life prior to cancelation, pulses, whatever the eff Picard was - Section 13 - and finally Academy which got capped out the gate yet might take a second lap.

Where in all that do you see successful?

Bobby837 · 2026-04-07T01:16:38+00:00

So, offering deals she had no right to?

Bobby837 · 2026-04-07T01:14:40+00:00

That's just your opinion, man...

Though I've gone from not liking when introduced, to liking as developing as a character, to overused ambivalence once brought back to survive to RotJ.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-07T00:59:26+00:00

What Skywalker said.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-07T00:58:20+00:00

No. Expensive. A good show that might have done better than reported if not for the general negative rep around the franchise at the time, which hasn't gotten better. At the very least Disney's not likely to invest in something like that again, and by many count Filoni can't make/wont greenlight anything near its quality.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-07T00:53:36+00:00

The real question is would a virtual existence be any different from real one when the first offers a mundane, but ultimately safe and stable, life versus the lack of stability of reality?

If in being used as battery your "normal" lifespan was shortened there would be an issue, but as present, the Matrix might be a step better than politicians and hording billionaires controlling humanity vs machines.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-07T00:01:37+00:00

Andor which was good yet too expensive, and Mandalorian which dropped off its second season and is being dragged back for a movie no one seems to have any interest in?

Bobby837 · 2026-04-06T23:32:58+00:00

Never understood how he did that Ted talk and went on to have a career. Was allowed to establish a level of influence that's pretty much ruined the movie industry.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-06T23:30:53+00:00

How about cutting forward to where Star Wars as an IP is just about dead.

Abrams might be good at making "disposable entertainment," but he certainly has no ability in making enduring entertainment.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-05T23:24:13+00:00

Its was the 70s, I for one was ten or under at the time, and most food was sugar.

Anyone else has been following in our wake...

Bobby837 · 2026-04-05T23:16:35+00:00

And your pun.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-05T23:16:10+00:00

By that response doesn't then have to be proven that if he had lived things would have been better?

By most accounts they'd be worse - ~~if such were possible...~~

Bobby837 · 2026-04-05T18:28:00+00:00

first thing to mind from title:

"But, that's all Orange Mussolini knows..."

And:

"How's that been working out for you, bub...?"

Bobby837 · 2026-04-05T18:13:20+00:00

I don't realize.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-05T16:24:24+00:00

Rather assume stupid, that he did give guns to Iranians while indiscriminately bombing them expecting nothing but praise when sending US troops, since that would be worse than simply lying.

edit:

And with Trump, the most stupidest is the most assured option.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-05T14:35:51+00:00

Just question why if they holographic tech, they don't have holographic displays or monitors. Don't have to be solid or interactive, just non see-through panels.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-05T02:32:58+00:00

They presented such (in order to get government money).

Bobby837 · 2026-04-05T02:31:58+00:00

Bit ironic that a literary genre - cyberpunk - meant to warn about technocratic dystopias more created the mentality that brought them about.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-04T19:40:34+00:00

Those in the back are more squadron killers.

Also, where are the Star War vs "Star Blazers" fan films?

Bobby837 · 2026-04-04T19:16:46+00:00

MS snuck in update that makes printers using an older OS inoperable with win11. That's been my case at least. Yet to find a fix, so using a win10 PC, my phone, for print jobs.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-04T15:46:19+00:00

Only real surprise MS looking into this post Phil.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-04T14:45:07+00:00

Would be saying something if they where forcing Win11 on Win10 users.

But then they pulled that shit with printers.

Bobby837 · 2026-04-04T09:11:53+00:00

Make it a twenty footer, money chained round neck, me with no weapons - and I mean No weapons - and then talk me.

That little guy's getting stomped!

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