Streaming With Sqrlmog: 'Steamboat Willie', 1928

All the furniture is still plastic-wrapped, the set decorations haven't arrived, and I still have a price tag in a very uncomfortable place, but we're set up enough around here that we're ready to roll with this inaugural episode. But hey, if I'm in a state of disarray, at least I'm not as bad as the Disney Plus launch. They were simply not ready for the sheer number of people trying to watch at once. TV shows were in a strange jumbled order, the search bar didn't, the website was slinging error messages every second click, and the movie list would stop loading whenever it felt like it.

That last one isn't a problem if you really like films starting with the letters A, B, C, and D but it was kind of a problem for everyone with a taste for deeper cuts of the alphabet.

There was some stuff I thought about, writing this first entry. Did I want to have a rating system?
(No, not really.)
How long should I write for something like this?
(Begin at the beginning, go on 'til you come to the end, then stop.)

Most importantly, though... what would I watch first? What would set the proper tone, what's the best beginning? When a company like Disney dumps a shedload of their history in a giant heap on your lawn, even starting to pick through it is a daunting task.

Would I go with a beloved legendary classic or one of those weird and fascinating bombs dug out of the bins of history? Should I just click at random, or try to impose some sort of order? What do my heart, head, guts, and inner child have to say about this?

I gave those four some weapons and let them rampage around while I added stuff I wanted to check out later to my watchlist. Eventually they came back with a consensus.

( Steamboat Willie, naturally. )

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