Posted on 10/27/2020 1:49:21 PM PDT by tbw2
The Sandman and American Gods author Neil Gaiman recently pointed out the obvious that franchises risk alienating their fans if they don’t stick to the source material.
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OK. This is seriously retro. Movies? TV?
What about video games?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_video_games
Even if you don’t build your own system, you could probably get a pretty good (”pre-built”) one for under $1200.
Not quite the Witcher for blood and guts, but at least combative.
It is because failed writers would rather steal someone’s else’s IP than create their own.
As a result, I am buying more dead tree books in preparation for the day when Bozos decides to rewrite all ebooks to his liking
They start out good and then go off the rails and change what people liked about them in the first place.
It seems that they always trying to out PC and CG each other and the last episode.
No thanks.
I like stories as a kind of escape from reality. I don’t want all the current issues shoved in my face all the time in an effort indoctrinate me to the latest groupthink.
I don’t know how much input Neil Gaiman had on the American Gods TV series, but it featured absolutely disgusting and graphic gay sex scenes. Exactly the kind of stuff that causes the effect he describes. That is, people like me walking away from the franchise. Sounds like he is guilty of doing the same thing he accuses others of doing.
Yup, when they divorced Leia and Han and then killed Han off, that was it for me.
And they ruined Luke, too.
I was going to get rid of some of my books figuring that I could get them from the library.
Wrongo.......
They are even censoring and pulling Little House on the Prairie because of cultural sensitivities, as told me by a librarian when I was looking for one to read.
That did it.
I’m keeping all my old books and CDs and DVDs. I don’t want to hear that I can stream it. Big media is censoring and reworking too much these days.
I don’t want them messing with classics.
“there was no storyline or plan to tell a story in the latest Star Wars trilogy”
That’s not really true. JJ Abrams had an entire trilogy mapped out with the plot threads set up in the first movie, but they fired him and Rian Johnson intentionally burned everyone one of those “setups” so they had nothing for the third movie.
DS9 was one ST series that got better as the seasons progressed. At least that’s how I remembered it, LOL. Sisko’s character growth was compelling, although I think it started going off the rails at the very end.
In DS9 you saw the Federation take more of a military role than previously. I think this continued further in some of the books even after the Dominion arc due to the ever encroaching and a more confrontational Borg.
No. These properties are owned by corporations. Writers are hired by those corporations to do what they're told. It's almost impossible to sell a new spec project and has been for the last decade, at least. These decisions are made by bean counters who figure that they can make a return on investment with less risk on a mediocre franchise film that will have a built-in audience they can calculate, rather than spending that same investment on a new idea that nobody knows.
DS9 is way more watchable than TNG.
When it comes to space stations, B5 is where I would rather be.
“Terminator did the same thing in Terminator: Dark Fate by executing John Connor in the opening moments of the film.”
The “Dark Fate” Terminator thing didn’t stink because the premise used a different time line than the first movies. That’s right there in the title, ‘dark fate’, and it’s Terminator so the whole point is time traveling and possible resulting paradoxes. It stank because it just wasn’t that good.
Freegards
Nope...there was no story treatment from the very beginning. Abrams was never fired. He was a terrible choice from the beginning...but that’s another topic entirely. Johnson was an even worse choice.
Well, to be fair there wasn’t exactly a huge inherited fanbase for him to alienate when his version of sandman came out in the late 80s. Star Wars and Trek pretty much kept up their gigantic fanbases who wanted good movies and series.
Freegards
Faggotry will do that. Every time.
Which is why I shared it.
Or bringing in Luke’s force-sensitive girlfriend and the Youang Zhong (anti-Force aliens).
“Exactly! I’ve watched Star Trek TOS episodes over and over again but I can’t sit through a single episode of TNG and its successors.”
They actually drop the f-bomb in Discovery.
“I’m keeping all my old books and CDs and DVDs.”
We are slowly becoming Fahrenheit 451.
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