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a solid block of adaptations and sequels. people used to criticize this sort of thing as indicating that hollywood has run out of ideas and i don’t see that take anymore? i think we’ve all kind of realized that people don’t care about originality: what we want is a mythology

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· Dec 5, 2021

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@QiaochuYuan

Dec 6, 2021

as i’ve gotten older the prospect of learning the details of an entirely new fictional world has come to feel increasingly tiring. i think i really do just want more and better stories set in worlds i’ve already come to know and love. a man can only hold so many worlds

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back to the future II made a joke about “jaws 19” and it was supposed to be over-the-top satire (so i imagine), like haha wouldn’t that be hilarious if moviemakers had nothing better to do than make 18 sequels to jaws meanwhile the MCU is at, what, 26 movies and counting?

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i agree with the mythology take but there is a noticeable tension between that and copyright laws (there is fanfic in the grey area but the tension still holds)