generalfrevious said:

brash_stryker said:

Fang Zei said:

I was naively hoping that Fox's ownership of distribution rights on the existing films (and Disney's desire for them) could lead to a deal where that might actually happen.

Same here, even though I knew deep down that would never happen. It's like with the Hobbit movies. I'd hoped that the licensing issue with MGM wouldn't impact on the opening New Line Cinema intro, so we could still have continuity with Lord of the Rings. Instead we get 35 seconds of 3 different logos - Warner Bros, New Line, and finally the MGM lion. Ridiculous.

The best we can hope for is that this was a rushed placeholder to prime us for not seeing the Fox intro anymore, meanwhile Williams is composing the actual new fanfare ready for TFA. My concern is that even as a rushed placeholder, the transition is so horrendous that I'm having serious doubts about their quality control process. If they can fuck up an intro, what are they doing with the movie?

Star Wars and quality control have been mutually exclusive since 1983. Disney is just carrying on the tradition of impossible to fathom incompetence.

The amount of issues such as transparency that slipped through in the SE shows that there was always a degree of incompetence when it came to post-ROTJ Star Wars. Lucas's decisions, as well as quality control over the years have been beyond baffling, and he's done nothing but try to sink his own ship before jumping from it, it seems. Disney is a huge upgrade from Lucas, even if the problems are still there.

Why do people act like Disney is the harbinger of (continuing) doom or something?