Why risk making something new that might end up failing when you can just recycle old and successful stuff over and over again?
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2025
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When an original show or movie comes out nobody watches, especially movies. Franchises and sequels keep getting made because they’re being watched.
maybe they should actually fund the original shows properly and give them a sane amount of advertising, rather than handing them an anchor and pushing them into the harbour waters?
Old franchises don't even try to explore strange new worlds anymore but rather boldly go where they have been before (sorry not sorry for the SNW season 3 spoiler)
I'll fucking spoil it. It has celebration of eugenics in it, everyone should not watch it.
I dunno, not even an old franchise but even with Avatar the Last Airbender ... they keep trying to retell Aang's story when they could do so many others stories within the universe and give nods to the original. Repeatedly doing the same storyline makes the universe feel smaller.
update: Although ... now that I think about there have been franchises that have expanded poorly ... Rings of Power ... Alien: Earth. Yes I know there are fans of both and I love that you guys love it. However, I don't think either have been accepted largely by the fandom.
What? Avatar is like 20 years old, had a second series years later that explored the changed world a generation later, and has had only live action adaptations of the original story
This does not seem like a good example...
Here's a medium take, most of human culture across its history has consisted of the same stories told anew. The only problem now is that the gatekeepers of our culture are moneyed interests, and the influence of shareholder interests and oligarchs means we end up watching the colour and life fade from our culture in realtime as capitalism declines.
They do reboots just so they don't lose the trademark.
Reboots happen every 10 years because that's how long trademark registration lasts.
https://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/TFSR/current#/current/TFSR-15USCd1e1.html (section 8)
Yeah that's part of it. That's one specific mechanism by which our culture is in the hands of people with perverse incentives.
Sane take IMO, you have selected the medium podium well
Sorry, I'm usually funnier
Eeh, this one has potential. It's almost all the original crew (inc. the writers and the non Joss showrunner!) getting a chance to go back and tell more stories in a project they all loved and that's had a lasting cultural impact. There's a difference between people passionately revisitimg a sequel, and the gutless corpse of something being draped over a generic script and set loose on the unsuspecting villagers to milk them for all they're worth like has been happening so much with Disney and Paramount lately (fucking Starfleet Academy)
Do we know enough about Starfleet Academy to hate it? I like the genre of show it seems to be and love the idea of such a thing in the Star Trek universe. Why are all the teenage melodrama shows always in a magical/vampire setting? Why not SciFi? Clearly my perspective isn't the majority of the current Star Trek audience, but why not broaden that audience and welcome new fans to the tent?
We don't know enough to say it's bad yet, but it seems to not be what most Star Trek fans want out of a new show. People will go in expecting it to be bad, so it will have to be incredible just to be accepted. My hopes are not high, considering how Discovery ended.
I guess I'm also still confused by the hate for Lower Decks. That was my favorite Star Trek show since TNG.