Everyone Hates Disney

Disney has done something that I thought was not possible in 2025; they united both Progressives and Conservatives. Everyone Hates Disney Now - Echo Chamberlain's Substack. Disney just didn't unite them in a good way.

Conservatives hate the gender identity and the "not so secret gay agenda." Progressives are now up in arms because Disney has dialed that back, and then pulled Kimmel off the air (though that was mostly the affiliate station owners.) And I'm not sure reversing that helped.

Then there are the fans, the camp I fall into mostly when it comes to Disney. Fans of the stuff they bought, and destroyed.

Lucasfilm:

No decline has been more protracted than Lucasfilm’s. When Disney acquired Star Wars, it inherited a mythology that was, for decades, modern folklore. What followed under Kathleen Kennedy’s stewardship has been the slow, grinding commodification of that mythology into corporate paste.

The Force, once numinous and mysterious, has been flattened into an endlessly repurposed IP. Luke Skywalker: cinema’s definitive hero’s-journey protagonist, was reintroduced not as the courageous knight audiences remembered but as a bitter hermit, playing alongside Rey, an overpowered “Mary Sue” whose mastery seemed to require neither struggle nor growth.

Indiana Jones got exactly the same treatment in Dial of Dysentery. Exactly the same treatment, though Waller-Bridge was more insufferable than a Mary Sue.

Marvel:

Echo Chamberlain says that Marvel has been "rudderless" since Avengers: Endgame. I disagree. It has been carefully guided right into the iceberg, and then it sank.

The post-Endgame slate has been defined by declining quality, sagging coherence, and the creeping sense that identity politics drive more decisions than story.

Creeping sense? No. That is exactly what has been done. Deliberately. Consciously. Maliciously.

Anyway, I don't agree with everything he says, but it is an interesting take on the state of Disney, and if you take a step back, the state of Hollywood.