People ask me, "Are you happy?" My response is always, "I'm not unhappy." Actively happy? Moments here and there at varying lengths, like most people, I think. I'm well adjusted, I guess, and playing a victim or sniffing around for sympathy has
never been my bag. Never.
And yes of course, this latest...
"film"... is just more corporate product. You know, they assign it a date that it can't waver from and build up the production office before even... looking for a director who might actually have a vision.
They didn't care the last two times, this won't be magic #3. I admit, though, I'm morbidly curious what lessons will be "learned" from after the last one. I still suspect the wrong ones.
And with Turtles, what you call "optimism" I call something not too far removed from "Battered Wife Syndrome." "He'll get better one day, you'll see! One day he'll stop!" But he doesn't, he just keeps on a beatin'.