Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20150930020647/@comment-995426-20151023051439

I should add that: Yes, entertainment executives are still responsible to the markets for the decisions they make. A "good" executive makes more "good" decisions than "bad" ones. But the primary responsibility of executives is to make decisions to make more money. Beyond this, they still have a degree of choice in how to run an entertainment business, and they may or may not value the quality of entertainment as much as the profits that come from it.

It's sort of a cliché (with both fact and fiction and plenty of urban legend involved, I'm sure) that entertainment executives frequently make stupid or malicious decisions that ruin projects, or even intentionally sabotage projects to hurt the legacies of personal rivals who stand to credit more from a project's success than themselves. Of course, I'm generally more inclined to take a cynical assessment of a profit-seeking entity's self-interest vs. altruism. But all that said, at the end of the day, I can't say I know what's going through the minds of creators or the executives who pay their salaries.