I have a few: Star Wars, Star Trek, MCU.
star wars, for sure. at this point they’re just digging through the garbage for any scrap of lore they can turn into another streaming series. it’s less ‘new content’ and more ‘extended universe, but legally distinct.’
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.
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
we live in the mirror universe
A surprising amount of people spring beards, nowadays. So there might be something in your observation.
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
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.
Please tell that to CBS. (or who ever the hell runs these hellscape conglomerates these days and owns ST)
Paramount these days innit?
SNW is, like, almost there…
Except they have so many screwups with writing it’s not even funny. Like the captain freaking praying in s02e01… Yeaahhh, Starfleet is definitely known for their faith in god and not humanity…
Yeah nah. A future that accepts all doesn’t mean “atheists only”
There are plenty of religious people in ST. The point is humanity, and especially Starfleet, are secular and logical almost to a fault. It’d be a cold day in hell when a captain goes, “Oh jeeze, oh no, I don’t know what I’m doing! Please Sky Daddy, help mee~”
There’s even a freaking episode in TOS where Kirk directly denounces Gods as a whole, even while he’s literally staring at someone with god-like powers. It’s even a repeating theme in other ways through the series.
It is wholly anachronistic to have a captain defer to religious faith. They explicitly say humanity has moved past the need in all of the first five series.
Maybe Archer has some kind of religious faith-based statement I’m forgetting, but he’s set in early Trek times, and it does not remove the fact that EVERY OTHER series before ST was sold explicitly states humans do not believe in gods for worship. Picard even basically tells Q to fuck off and Q literally has powers beyond what “God” is ever described as having.
There’s even a freaking episode in TOS where Kirk directly denounces Gods as a whole, even while he’s literally staring at someone with god-like powers.
You mean the bit in who mourns for adonais where he says “we have no need for gods we find the one sufficient”? Really? Might wanna rethink that as an example. Especially since canonically there’s a freakin’ chapel on the enterprise AND religious officers kneeling to pray. Even in DS9 Kasidy says her mother would want her to be married by a minister.
And Pike does not defer to religious faith, he faces a crisis outside of his control and outside of his role as an officer and throws a quick prayer. Oh no. The horror.
Religion has lost its stranglehold of control, but personal faith most certainly endures through all trek. You might wanna check some of your biases 'cos its making you logic fault.
You’re really reaching at straws when you equivocate a captain admitting humans have believed in one god vs a captain making a religious appeal to God.
Starfleet doesn’t condemn religion, but again, that DOES NOT mean they endorse it. You religious buffoons always utterly fail to understand what kind of humanity is portrayed.
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.
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…
For a moment I was looking at the ear and wondering what kind of mutated creature that was. You cannot convince me that on first glance, if you miss the actual eyes, that the ears don’t look somewhat like an eye.
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
Abrahamic religions 👍 we get it you’ve daddy issues don’t take it so serious
How about all religions?
The pasta people too? They’re pleasant
The Noodley One is always there for you!
rAman.
read this in castlevania dracula voice
any other religions for self entitled people?
Imagine.
At least we stuck to one solid trilogy and then stopped. Well, aside from the fanfic.
You mean the Bible is really a trilogy and the book of Mormon is return of the jedi? I’m interested.
Jurassic Park, the last like 5 have been the same rehashed ideas along with “big dinosaur how we kill it?”
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?
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.
Jurassic World 1 is my guilty pleasure.
I would like to know the demographics of the people who still watch the Simpsons. They are out there. There are many of them.
I genuinely think that some people hit a certain age and then simply lose the will to explore new things. The amount of absolute garbage reboots and sequels that my parents watch just because they liked the original thing is far too many. But it’s certainly not just them. I know people younger than me that will just always listen to new albums of artists they used to enjoy even if it’s hot garbage and talk about it like it’s pretty good. I’m certainly not an authority on what people can enjoy, but I can absolutely be disappointed in people that reach this point where familiar=good.
Nostalgia is a powerful ‘drug’.
Haven’t watched it many years, went and found one of the tree house of horrors the other day because someone recommended it. It was alright
And there was one with a bear
I always have to pop up in these threads because I’m out there, and I’m not alone. I’ve been watching The Simpsons, more or less, non-stop since it first started airing.
When I was younger it played twice a day during the week with a new episode every Sunday. So when it comes to the earlier seasons, the ten or so seasons often viewed as the golden era, I’ve seen those dozens of times.
In the 2000s watching TV at a regularly scheduled time wasn’t as much of a priority and the availability of videos on the Internet began to increase, so I usually watched The Simpsons that way. When the film came out in 2007 I was there opening day.
As streaming services became popular in the 2010s I started to watch The Simpsons there instead. Although these streaming services rarely had a backlog, just the current season, but I had them all collected over the years.
In the late 2010s my roommates and I decided to watch every episode of The Simpsons but not in release order. We would just pick a random season and episode and watch a few episodes a week over the course of two years.
Now in the 2020s we sometimes get together to watch, sometimes watch solo. I’m personally much more strict about watching every week, they usually watch in short bursts and I don’t mind rewatching recent episodes.
But… Is it good? Yeah mostly. Not every episode is great.
The episode that aired this past Sunday isn’t anything special, a few funny moments but Albert Brooks who voiced Hank Scorpio and Russ Cargill (from the movie) voiced a new character and that was fun.
The Treehouse of Horror from two Sunday’s ago was much better, so if you want a recent episode then watch that.
No it isn’t ever going to be as great as the golden age of The Simpsons, but it’s still fun to watch and I still laugh, so that’s a win to me.
I loved the simpsons but have not seen an episode in maybe a decade or more.
My kids are mainlining it most days (when they’re allowed TV). They’re pre-teens and they love it. I don’t mind so much, basically because nostalgia - and at least it’s not Teen Titans Go, which was so fast it gave me a headache
MCU has really run its course. They’ve jumped the shark
How about a bit different perspective?
What long running franchise should be taking out of the hands of idiots and given to people who are actually talented and creative?
The one exception is the MCU, that is definitely one that needs a break. I feel I’ve been watching the same movie over and over since the second Avengers.
The worlds of Star Trek and Star Wars are so vast that there are tons of stories that could be told. It just needs to be in the hands of someone that is actually good at their job and not a profit crazy committee.
Disney had an entire cannonical set of excellent stories to work with, but said ‘fuck it we’ll just do whatever crappy nostalgia bait JJ Abrams wants’… and we got a complete shit show.
Andor actaully reminded me of a lot of the ‘legacy’ cannon stuff, which is why it was so popular/great. Dark Empire, Thrawn, Jedi Academy… just had so much better story going on.
Which is a strange decision because Disney is at it’s best when picking good existing stories and doing a quality adaptation.
Star Trek seems pretty good in this regard. Discovery went ary but it was fun while it was good. Strange New Worlds is fantastic, Lower Decks takes a very different view of the universe for fun, and Picard was a decent enough story with some good stakes.
The movies suck ass though, particularly Abrams.
Star Wars on the other hand could just go away and I would not care. I saw New Hope in 77 and loved it. Looking back; not a great movie. And it was downhill from there.
Which is it shouldn’t have been. There have been better books than anything produced by Lucas or Disney.
I enjoyed andor. The first 1.5 seasons were pretty solid. Then they started “discovering” characters who were in Rouge One and doingbtheir usual BS where we are all supposed to faint because someone we know shows up…
The Simpsons. Used to be sensational but isn’t anymore.
It’s gone from losing my interest 20 years ago to flat out unwatchable. I saw an episode from the most recent season and it was neither funny nor interesting to watch. It’s sad that one of the funniest shows ever has been past its prime for so long it’s now an animated corpse of what it once was.
Omg I read “sensational” as a bad thing is it one of those words now
Only on a sensationalist kind of way.
funny thing is Im pretty sure the last one I watched was worth watching but I no longer watch over the air real time and it was not streaming in an easy enough to do fashion so just sorta fell out of watching it.
Trump / MAGA
Every. Single. Fucking. EA Sports franchise
They ought to be arrested for it, but players are somehow still buying it.
I remember when skate 3 was released. It was the biggest sports game of the year. It outsold even FIFA. BUUUUUUUT, fifa fans are so deranged that they spend like 2 Billions in micro transactions that EA obviously spend all their efforts into making more FIFA and no more skate. Except now Skate. Obviously, and we all know how shit this turned out.
Futurama. I think it’s the best 30 minute show of all time but it’s time for it to go. It’s OK. Good things are allowed to end.
As an extremely die-hard Futurama fan I’m starting to feel the same way, especially since disney owns it now. The only thing they’ll do with it going forward is see just how much they can wring from it, in the same fashion they’re killing star wars, marvel, and every other IP they bought to pump out never-ending crap. I’d be fine if this was the end, even with a tear in my eye.
TIL Futurama was renewed. I’m so out of the loop these days it blows my mind.
