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Crowds generally like sequels and canon even if it makes films worse. We did get a reboot of Star Trek with someone else playing Kirk. It was technically an in
by jncfhnb 2y ago
Crowds generally like sequels and canon even if it makes films worse.
We did get a reboot of Star Trek with someone else playing Kirk. It was technically an in universe reboot and it was dumb. It probably would have been just as dumb if it wasn’t an in universe reboot.
- WalterBright 2y agoIt was dumb in that it replaced intelligent ideas with action.
- ben_w 2y agoIndeed — we also had the fan-made Star Trek Continues, which was essentially perfect as a modernisation with the same set-dressing yet higher production values; and Kirk appearing in Strange New Worlds in ways that make perfect (to the limit TV ever does) sense, telling new and old stories without needing to break or reject the old world building (time travel is a wonderful narrative aid for that) or characterisation.
- jncfhnb 2y agoThat was a prominent problem. But in general I feel the larger issue is that films are getting sequels because sequels are commercially safer, and then writers are being asked to figure out why. Especially when it’s a franchise revitalization and the actors are old but they want the nostalgia points.