I have a few: Star Wars, Star Trek, MCU.
You take the good name of Star Trek out of your mouth.
Star Trek needs to be taken away from Paramount while it still has a good name.
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Jurassic Park, the last like 5 have been the same rehashed ideas along with “big dinosaur how we kill it?”
Jurassic Park is one of my most favourite movies ever. Although they come not even close to the first one, I still rewatch 2 and 3 from time to time. But Jurassic World is a disaster for me. The second one was already so bad that it caused losing my whole interest for the World franchise.
I still cannot believe how much they butchered this franchise and the initial vision for the book and the movie.
I can’t agree more with this. Wtf are they thinking.
They are thinking that they have made billions of dollars, so why stop now?
MCU has really run its course. They’ve jumped the shark
If nothing else, I like how directly The Matrix Resurrection lampshaded this. Thomas Anderson’s game company is forced into making a sequel to their Matrix trilogy by Warner Bros itself, and provides infinitely conflicting corporate views on being completely original and yet repeating the source material.
They couldn’t escape the sequel trap, but they could at least draw attention to it.
For shame for you to say that Star Trek has run on too long.
We need messages about cooperating to create a classless, moneyless society of benevolent people now more than ever.
A what?!?!?
Hell, even Star Trek’s hope for the future would do all of us a bit of good right now.
Just remember in ST humanity went through WWIII, a nuclear war before all the nice stuff.
And apparently India los so the eugenics wars because we have like a billion people and more a single Indian in star fleet in the first 50 years
Oh, believe me, that is something that has been on my mind recently…
In Star Trek, humanity evolved to become better because it had to learn the hard lessons of the past.
Sadly, in reality and today, I’m not so sure those “hard lessons” would lead to any betterment of humanity. World War III could end, and it would be like that alternative episode of enterprise, where is Zephryn Cochrane shot the Vulcan visitors in the face with a shot shotgun.
I’m terrified that we live in the mirror universe
Feel similar for Star Wars. I gave the sequels a few shots but ultimately don’t really care about them. However, the transition era between the Republic and the Galactic Empire echoes what is happening in the US this second.
I was (re)watching Clone Wars around the start of the year while making plans with my partner to leave our friends and flee the country. The way the Jedi Council treated Ahsoka towards the end while ushering in an era of fascism hit especially hard this time around.
They did her so wrong and then tried to say it was her final test. Such a cop out! Surely with all your sense of the Force you should have known she was innocent. But they didn’t see a Sith Lord right under their noses, either…
That the Jedi Council is incredibly hubristic and far less aligned with the light side than they think is a major theme of the prequel era.
Maybe, but I feel like the lore has become too large for the property and a reboot would be beneficial for the series.
How many reboots do you need?
Just one made by someone who understands the franchise.
And as far as I recall, there is only one reboot in Star Trek history, it just shouldn’t have been made by JJ Abrams.
Fast and furious.
Tomb raider.
Or, wait, capitalism. Damn that’s not a franchise, too bad.
All of them. How about some new shit for once?
I still get frustrated when we get a big games conference to show off a bunch of trailers, and a streamer watching one will start rattling off “Oh. Soldier of Fortune remake? Bloodborne 2? God of War?” up to the title card. Then, when it’s some fresh new IP, not a sequel, everyone has a reaction of “Oh. Dunno what that is.”
Gamers are very much complicit in the terrible state of game remakes/sequels.
James Bond
CSI (and other shows that distort the public’s understanding of the criminal justice system—see the CSI effect).
Copaganda in general can just go away.
Good news: CSI: Vegas got cancelled last year.
Do you really want the public to be aware of how shitty the reality is?
I mean here in Germany e.g the reality is that our justice system is overloaded and many criminals can get away because the courts have more cases than they can handle.
I prefer that the wide public doesn’t know that we could already live in anarchy to some degree…
Videogame Time
Call of Duty
Battlefield
Modern Warfare
Uncharted
Assasin’s Creed
Dark Souls
Tombraider
Final Fantasy
Tales Of
Zelda
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
God of War
Deus Ex (pretty much dead already thanks to Square Enix doing a shit job)Very hot take indeed lol but Dark Souls has already ended.
Ah, my bad. Guess they’ll just churn out Elden slop for awhile.
Every. Single. Fucking. EA Sports franchise
They ought to be arrested for it, but players are somehow still buying it.
If I don’t like something, I just don’t watch it. It doesn’t bother me if others enjoy it.
That’s fine for drama and written TV. But nah, reality TV ruined the world.
The Real World and Cribs on MTV led to Big Brother and Survivor - which as well as popularizing the format and leading to endless trash, led to The Apprentice, which revived Donald Trump’s image and brand and convinced millions of really dumb people that he’d make a good president.
In the good parallel timelines, the execs that suggested reality TV were laughed at and it never came up again. MTV still plays great music videos all day, the History channel actually talks about history, and barely anyone outside of the US knows the name ‘Kardashian’ or ‘Donald Trump’.
The problem is that reality TV is inevitable. People, generally speaking, like to know what other people are doing. Or like to see other people react to things.
The first “reality TV” program was Candid Camera, which technically got its start as “Candid Microphone”, all in the late 1940s. Of course things evolved from there into our current “reality TV” situation.
The real problem is that the line between “entertainment” and “reality” has gotten blurrier and blurrier. When we watch Godzilla we know that’s just entertainment, we know a giant lizard creature isn’t walking down the street.
It’s also funny that you mention MTV because realistically MTV should have died out years ago. In the same way that video killed the radio star, the Internet killed the video star. Why would I turn on the TV and hope the video I wanted to watch was on, when I could just go on the Internet and see it now. Of course MTV the television station wants to keep making money, so they pivoted hard into reality TV.
When we watch Godzilla we know that’s just entertainment, we know a giant lizard creature isn’t walking down the street.
Wait, what?
You need to learn from the IWC. No one hates wresting more than wrestling fans
Literally all long running franchises. There is a clear downward trajectory over the lifetime of franchises. It doesn’t have to start immediately, but goddamn if it’s not true for everything. Go out on top. Don’t go out floundering about the lower-middle (at best).
