Honestly as other people have observed it's really awful that Star Trek (which depicts a crypto-jingoistic military imperialist utopia) and Star Wars (which is faux-buddhist science fantasy chosen one schlock) have pretty much completely suffocated the space opera genre
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Honestly I think it's largely because both these franchises are themselves just kinda sprawling aesthetics first. The Matrix really has very little room to grow
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That said, if anything is the "new Star Wars" it was obviously Harry Potter And it kind of exemplifies the whole thing about Millennials being the new Boomers - it took everything over until it was impossible to dislodge because it was what this one big demographic grew up with
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And just like Roddenberry was a Greatest Generation WWII vet sort of clumsily pandering to the Boomer kids, Rowling is a young Boomer/old Gen Xer doing the same with Millennials
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Farscape, Firefly, and nuBSG all felt like they were sipping from the same well of Gen-X sci-fi, but it never felt like that whole subgenre ever became a truly "mainstream" thing.
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Stargate, too, practically the Ur-text for Gen X sci-fi.
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That the matrix never became a cultural institution on that level is a travesty.
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