"Watching your heroes get old is so depressing," said one Redditor, in a typical response.

The news has been a steady, depressing drumbeat of complicity tales lately.

"It's depressing. Walking on the street, driving your car - it's all just depressing."

I focused on a press release hanging near the staircase to Mann’s bedroom that quotes him saying, “In times of so deeply depressing circumstances a harmonious home background is of great significance.”

That means some powerful Disney man in a high tower gazed down at the smallfolk from their sky-level suite and decided that what we need are further adventures from our favorite depressing dystopia.