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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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It's funny that even the really big media franchises Gen X tried to put up as successors/competitors lacked that staying power huh The Matrix didn't become an empire to nearly the same degree
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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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Hopefully we're all starting to do the work of dismantling that before it reaches Star Wars levels of implacability
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Yeah it was when Millennials started entering their 30s that all these purely ironic or dead fandoms started resurrecting and becoming serious business Look at bronies
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