So people are unhappy with that, and then people are mad that other people are mad, and now Disney Imagineer Jim Shull has chimed in (via Entertainment Weekly) with a halfhearted defense of the changes to the ride that basically amounts to him saying “that’s what happens in the movie.” (He’s right, of course, because that is what happens in the movie, but that’s also The Problem.) Shull notes that people are “allowed to dislike the story,” but he notes that the “Imagineering team did a spectacular job” at least.

That’s fair, since it should be Disney’s job to stop making movies about kissing people while they’re asleep, while the Imagineers should just focus on finding new and exciting ways to carry Disney fans around in a little car, but surely somebody along the way should’ve objected to framing an entire ride around a thing that people have a lot more objections to now than they did 80 years ago.

Or maybe it’s about balance, and Disney is making an effort to keep its bad stuff and good stuff equal?