I have a few: Star Wars, Star Trek, MCU.
Rupert Murdoch.
Five Nights at Freddy’s has only been running for 11 years and is a corpse of its former self that seems to have been ironically put into a machine to make more money.
It will actually be a sad day when Fast and Furious eventually ends. No more Family jokes. No more wacky titles.
Fast infinity: fastest family 4: shaw’s laundry, Hobbe’s social contract - Istanbul Traffic Jam
Pokemon
Doctor Who.
Bond.
Half of the plot points from all the movies have been enacted, attempted or discussed in the first year of Trump’s presidency by his cabinet, handlers, backers or string-pullers or funders. Fictional supervillains as entertainment are a distraction, dangerously so when the real thing is happening as we speak.
Every. Single. Fucking. EA Sports franchise
They ought to be arrested for it, but players are somehow still buying it.
I love Star Trek dearly, I just don’t think we’re ever going to get a show that hits like TNG/VOY/DS9 (and even ENT/TOS) again - largely due to capitalism and the dramatic shortening of TV seasons. SNW is watchable and has some good bits in it, but it is forced to operate at a mile-a-minute pace, and either forced or poorly chosen by the showrunners to be Action Action Action about 90% of the time. I just need some breathing room!
That being said, Lower Decks and Prodigy both hit on a lot of what I love about Trek. Their cancellations (and the new ownership of Paramount, and Section 31, and SNW only getting 6 episodes for their last season) do not bring me any hope for the future.
Simpsons
You know what’s crazy? The show had existed for my entire life (I’m 36), but I’ve only seen like 5 episodes ever. And the movie.
When I was around 6 or 7ish, i was just getting into stuff like that and had seen the show a couple times. Then my grandma saw some thing on the news or at church or something and ranted about the show so much, about how vulgar and terrible it was. So my mom decided I shouldn’t be allowed to watch it. I was an obedient child, so I didn’t watch it. Then my older friend introduced me to South Park a year or two later, and mom hadn’t said anything about that show… I never really got interested in The Simpson again after that.
One Piece. I was interested in it (the manga), but it’s way too long.
Honestly, I stopped reading after
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they passed the halfway point of the Grand Line.
The power creep just got way too out of control for my liking, and while I know that the power creep always existed, I feel like the adventures before showed how you can tell a good story without just brute force. Plus, even with their superhuman abilities, their struggles still felt relatable. And with what happened before and right after the aforementioned turning point, it felt like that would be left in the dust.
How about a bit different perspective?
What long running franchise should be taking out of the hands of idiots and given to people who are actually talented and creative?
The one exception is the MCU, that is definitely one that needs a break. I feel I’ve been watching the same movie over and over since the second Avengers.
The worlds of Star Trek and Star Wars are so vast that there are tons of stories that could be told. It just needs to be in the hands of someone that is actually good at their job and not a profit crazy committee.
Star Trek seems pretty good in this regard. Discovery went ary but it was fun while it was good. Strange New Worlds is fantastic, Lower Decks takes a very different view of the universe for fun, and Picard was a decent enough story with some good stakes.
The movies suck ass though, particularly Abrams.
Star Wars on the other hand could just go away and I would not care. I saw New Hope in 77 and loved it. Looking back; not a great movie. And it was downhill from there.
Which is it shouldn’t have been. There have been better books than anything produced by Lucas or Disney.
I enjoyed andor. The first 1.5 seasons were pretty solid. Then they started “discovering” characters who were in Rouge One and doingbtheir usual BS where we are all supposed to faint because someone we know shows up…
Disney had an entire cannonical set of excellent stories to work with, but said ‘fuck it we’ll just do whatever crappy nostalgia bait JJ Abrams wants’… and we got a complete shit show.
Andor actaully reminded me of a lot of the ‘legacy’ cannon stuff, which is why it was so popular/great. Dark Empire, Thrawn, Jedi Academy… just had so much better story going on.
Call of Duty and Pokémon.
I saw a commercial for the newest Pokemon game and up until it said it was exclusively for Switch 2, I hella thought it was some F2P mobile garbage. When your ads don’t even make the newest game look good, it’s definitely time to stop.
For shame for you to say that Star Trek has run on too long.
We need messages about cooperating to create a classless, moneyless society of benevolent people now more than ever.
A what?!?!?
Hell, even Star Trek’s hope for the future would do all of us a bit of good right now.
Just remember in ST humanity went through WWIII, a nuclear war before all the nice stuff.
Oh, believe me, that is something that has been on my mind recently…
In Star Trek, humanity evolved to become better because it had to learn the hard lessons of the past.
Sadly, in reality and today, I’m not so sure those “hard lessons” would lead to any betterment of humanity. World War III could end, and it would be like that alternative episode of enterprise, where is Zephryn Cochrane shot the Vulcan visitors in the face with a shot shotgun.
I’m terrified that we live in the mirror universe
Feel similar for Star Wars. I gave the sequels a few shots but ultimately don’t really care about them. However, the transition era between the Republic and the Galactic Empire echoes what is happening in the US this second.
I was (re)watching Clone Wars around the start of the year while making plans with my partner to leave our friends and flee the country. The way the Jedi Council treated Ahsoka towards the end while ushering in an era of fascism hit especially hard this time around.
They did her so wrong and then tried to say it was her final test. Such a cop out! Surely with all your sense of the Force you should have known she was innocent. But they didn’t see a Sith Lord right under their noses, either…
That the Jedi Council is incredibly hubristic and far less aligned with the light side than they think is a major theme of the prequel era.
Maybe, but I feel like the lore has become too large for the property and a reboot would be beneficial for the series.
How many reboots do you need?
Just one made by someone who understands the franchise.
And as far as I recall, there is only one reboot in Star Trek history, it just shouldn’t have been made by JJ Abrams.
Futurama. I think it’s the best 30 minute show of all time but it’s time for it to go. It’s OK. Good things are allowed to end.
TIL Futurama was renewed. I’m so out of the loop these days it blows my mind.
As an extremely die-hard Futurama fan I’m starting to feel the same way, especially since disney owns it now. The only thing they’ll do with it going forward is see just how much they can wring from it, in the same fashion they’re killing star wars, marvel, and every other IP they bought to pump out never-ending crap. I’d be fine if this was the end, even with a tear in my eye.
