• @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    I was looking at my Goodreads account and I’ve read around 300+ sci-fi books. There are TONS of stories that could be awesomely adapted to TV. Why do they insist on rehashing the same old shit?

    • maegul (he/they)
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      1 year ago

      Cuz Hollywood is dying or going through a dark age. No faith in trying new things. Complete profit driven cynicism from the top. An interest in only making substantial profits when entertainment is probably best run as a low-profit industry so that risks can be taken in order to enrich and progress culture.

      How does anyone else feel about the quality of writing they’ve been seeing lately? I feel like I can detect a drop in quality over the past couple of years. At first I thought it was all the work done over the pandemic but I feel like it’s persisting.

    • nomad
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      41 year ago

      People that liked this show as teens now earn money fulltime. So the answer is: consumers with cash reliving their childhood.

    • @Evotech
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      Low risk, making tv is expensive

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Well last time they rehashed Battlestar Galactica it actually went well, so can’t knock all rehashing imo

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        11 year ago

        Went well? Seriously? First year was good and I liked it. From that point on it was downhill. An entire year lost on semi religious cult BS. Then another year lost in a muddy planet. Then all the “All along the watchtower” mess. With the most stupid ending conceivable. “Let’s throw the ships into the sun”. Why??? Oh and we made such a mess with the story that Starbucks just disappeared out of thin air…