I didn't say that. What I'm trying to say is that what Disney is doing with EPCOT is very hard. They're trying to draw in new fans without alienating old ones.
And that in a nutshell is the problem. Walt Disney never pandered to anybody, When Walt was building an attraction he never said "Oh we should build this, because I can guarantee the under 10's middle class kids market who drink tropicana are going to go wild about this one". He's goal was simply to make great attractions that everybody could ride, and if a few people didn't enjoy them that was there problem not Disneys. You can not please everybody all of the time, but that is exactly what Disney these days try to do with all this market research crap. All it ends up doing is diluting a creative project in a desperate attempt to appeal to everybody. That is what is lacking, the company is lacking a creative vision of it's own, a vision to just simply create the very best attractions possible, to break the mould, to do something new, exiting, imersive and head and shoulders above anything else we have ever seen, or could even be thought possible.
The score has nothing to do with the message.
The story of communication through the ages only happened one way. No matter how they want to say it, it all happens the same way. Its not like they are making changes and making up stuff that didn't happen.
The narrator has been changed numerous times in the life of SSE.
I think you said it exactly, but don't realize what your saying. It has NOTHING to do with Imagineering or Disneys philosophy, it has everything to do with your MASSIVE emotional attachment to the version YOU liked the best.
Just because you liked it better the other way doesn't mean that Imagineering is wrong and you are right.
The score has everything to do with the message. Everything in an attraction must work to a common vision, the score is a vital part of this. The old score used to be grand, mysterious, and inspiring. An opinion this may be but you would be hard pressed to find many people who belive the new score reaches anywhere near the heights of the old one.
The story of communication only happened one way but it is not how it happened, but how it is told. We are now fed information like we are all a bunch of idiots with ADD, who wont understand anything unless it somehow relates to the time we all ready inhabit. Not only that, but the focus has moved from inspiring us all too make sure we use the communication technology we now have at our disposal, effectively, and with the intention of creating, and forging a better tomorrow, but to a selfish, cartoony, jokey future. We are no longer challenged as a race too do better, but instead just simply told to sit back, and laugh at this stupid cartoon. The very fundamental essence of the attraction has changed, and that is not opinion, but fact.
It also has everything to do with Disney and Imagineerings current philosophy. The fact is there was never any need to change the score, script, or narrator. These were elements of the attraction that worked perfectly for a large majority of people. The budget could have been put to much better use elsewhere, IE improving the Descent further, improving more of the AA's etc... The fact that they changed the script just highlights Disneys pandering to the so called "masses", it just stinks of some executive, or somebody in Imagineering going "Interactivity, thats what the kids want, we'll give them video screens and a survey weh hey" without any thought what so ever to what could actually plus the attraction. There is no creative vision coming from inside the company, just a vision too adhere to what people apparently "Want" or can "Understand" as much as possible.
