The person you’re referring to is JJ Abrams. JJ Abrams thinks he knows everything about movies and doesn’t need to know anything about the source material, it’s a fairly well documented fact that he was neither a Star Trek fan nor a Star Wars fan before making either movies. I have so many problems with JJ Abrams going all the way back to Lost and I don’t think I will ever forgive him for ruining two of my favorite franchises and TV storytelling for the time being.

[–] aGlassDarkly@piefed.zip 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I thought this was the one he didn’t do.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

On 8? He was the executive producer.

[–] aGlassDarkly@piefed.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Admittedly, I’ve never actually known what an executive producer does.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think they are supposed to represent the money but that usually gives them more power than they are supposed to have.

For instance, quite famously in The Matrix executive meddling is the reason that humans are batteries and not augmentations to the machine’s computing power. Which is why there are some things that don’t make quite as much sense until you realize that everybody still in the matrix is supposed to be having most of their brain power used elsewhere.

[–] aGlassDarkly@piefed.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

With this context, your initial comment now makes complete sense to me. Thanks for explaining.