It won't be a bad on blockbusters, or even a ban on shitty movies, it will simply be a ban on the reflex reaction of studios that says 'wow - that made a lot of money, let's make that again, only worse this time!'.
It's not that studios will be prohibited from producing pandering, brain dead drivel, but that they won't be able to do it automatically.
Think of it like the assault weapons ban. You can still buy huge guns that wreak terrible havoc, you just can't make them work by simply holding your finger on the button.

Also, short is a form, not a genre. There are short comedies, short documentaries, and short porn films. Percentages are also a problematic way to show this data, since an expansion of one type in this chart implies a contraction in another, which may or may not be the case, we simply don't know.

When I'm in charge sequel making will be a federal crime. While I realize that some people will claim that occasionally there is a sequel worth watching, we'll be saved from a whole lot of bullshit. Plus, the peace dividend will be huge. We have to realize that for every Transformers 12 a potentially good movie could have been made.

As a freelancer in a different field, much of this episode seems to relate to freelancing in general, especially in fields where people are motivated at least partly by a passion for the work.

'Dumbest' is a big word.

Heterosexual?

It seems to me there is something going on here about the difference between amateur enthusiasm, and professional interest. There is a very real sense in which there is something pure about fandom that is uncorrupted by commercial interest. Folks whose job it is to work for companies that produce art or products that are the subject of fandom are always conflicted between (in an ideal world) their real passion for the thing, and their job-driven objectives to make money for the company they work for.

Civilians and professionals will always somewhat hate each other because of this. The company and its workers will always, ultimately, sell out in favor of a fast buck, the fan will always ultimately feel disappointed and betrayed by this.

I have an argument with the whole concept of 'intellectual property'. There have been recent large scale efforts by large rights-holders to get the time-limited monopoly privileges granted by governments through copyright and patent law to be seen as 'property'. The analogy between these monopoly rights granted by governments for specific social goods (in the US) and actual property is fatally flawed.

It's not about whether they are 'bad guys', the issue is whether the characters are fully fleshed out individuals or flimsy ethnic stereotypes.

Actually I kind of do... The whole 'this is a desert planet', 'this planet is high tech' etc recalls the worst of the Star Trek 'planet of the week' episodes where a race or culture stands in for some political point the show wants to make. In the Star Wars movies there are usually so few of any given non-human race that it's impossible to see a diversity in their cultures, and so it's hard to see them as fully rounded representations.

We are shown what tuscan raiders, jawas, wookies, etc 'are like' in the early minutes of Star Wars, and learn little more about them than that. It's a disgrace. ;)