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Doubling down on this prediction. Superhero winter coming.
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Waiting for the post-Covid era of grimdark-everyman-normie shows. Superhero, “chosen people” type stuff will go into recession. Rick and Morty is the reductio ad absurdum of a 30 year cycle of increasingly ridiculous “I am special” narrative premises.
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I first made this prediction in May. Slowly refining it. Fascinating trend to try and forecast because mass storytelling is at a dead standstill now. We won’t know for a couple of years what ideas the most tuned-in storytellers are cooking up.
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Prediction: superhero movies/comics will become unpopular and go through something of a recession/winter due to covid. They won’t bomb, but they’ll underperform and be a somewhat marginal genre for a decade. Why: straightforward extrapolation from WW2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Ag
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this is just as much a question of distribution. “will movie theaters go out of business?” or “will Disney release all their subsequent films exclusively via streaming?” probably determines how/if people enjoy formerly “blockbuster” entertainment
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