Talk:John Lasseter/@comment-25652987-20141221232614/@comment-1672596-20141222014446

I know, but he's the one who was in charge of Walt Disney Animation Studios at the time the decision was made. And either way, it was him who basically screwed over Ariel's Beginning.

I'm not going to pin him with the blame for everything that went wrong at Disney. I won't hold him accountable for a certain holiday in June for Walt Disney World, or for GCB, or for the mess at ABC and ESPN right now, or for some of the bad policy decisions, or for Path to 9/11 being buried to such an extent that a DVD release is impossible at the moment, or for the Black Friday reel at Toy Story (the blame there is squarely placed at the feet of Michael Eisner, Bob Iger, and in the last case Jeffrey Katzenberg). I'm only pinning blame for things where he was directly responsible for and there's no one else to blame (And honestly, being the top dog and head executive for WDAS, there's simply no excuse for not deciding to have it released on a different day than Harry Potter's release date).