You raise a good point. Online petitions are virtually meaningless now that everybody and their mothers have multiple s. It's probably way too risky for studios to rely on those numbers because they probably won't reflect actual viewers.

When you stray from the source material, you automatically alienate a portion of what would have been your built in audience. But none of these failed showrunners and directors ever learn; the think they know better. Eventus stolturum magister.

So we're not going to talk about the records it set for most dislikes for a movie trailer or highest ratio of dislikes to likes on a movie trailer?

I should have known you'd go soft on this. (Which is probably the exact reaction the prince had upon seeing this Snow White, but I know you don't want to have that conversation).

Meh. While Johnny certainly doesn't need a starring or even important role in the new movie, there's certainly room for a cameo appearance given the fact that he, more than anyone else, is responsible for the massive popular interest in the franchise. Clips of Johnny were going viral before Daniel even had more than guest appearances on Cobra Kai.