Copaganda in general can just go away.

Good news: CSI: Vegas got cancelled last year.

Do you really want the public to be aware of how shitty the reality is?

I mean here in Germany e.g the reality is that our justice system is overloaded and many criminals can get away because the courts have more cases than they can handle.

I prefer that the wide public doesn’t know that we could already live in anarchy to some degree…

I can't agree more with this. Wtf are they thinking.

Jurassic Park is one of my most favourite movies ever. Although they come not even close to the first one, I still rewatch 2 and 3 from time to time. But Jurassic World is a disaster for me. The second one was already so bad that it caused losing my whole interest for the World franchise.

I still cannot believe how much they butchered this franchise and the initial vision for the book and the movie.

For a moment I was looking at the ear and wondering what kind of mutated creature that was. You cannot convince me that on first glance, if you miss the actual eyes, that the ears don't look somewhat like an eye.

It's gone from losing my interest 20 years ago to flat out unwatchable. I saw an episode from the most recent season and it was neither funny nor interesting to watch. It's sad that one of the funniest shows ever has been past its prime for so long it's now an animated corpse of what it once was.

Omg I read “sensational” as a bad thing is it one of those words now

funny thing is Im pretty sure the last one I watched was worth watching but I no longer watch over the air real time and it was not streaming in an easy enough to do fashion so just sorta fell out of watching it.

A what?!?!?

Hell, even Star Trek’s hope for the future would do all of us a bit of good right now.

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.

Please tell that to CBS. (or who ever the hell runs these hellscape conglomerates these days and owns ST)

Maybe, but I feel like the lore has become too large for the property and a reboot would be beneficial for the series.

I remember when skate 3 was released. It was the biggest sports game of the year. It outsold even FIFA. BUUUUUUUT, fifa fans are so deranged that they spend like 2 Billions in micro transactions that EA obviously spend all their efforts into making more FIFA and no more skate. Except now Skate. Obviously, and we all know how shit this turned out.

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.

TIL Futurama was renewed. I'm so out of the loop these days it blows my mind.

Grey's Anatomy has had a couple of spinoffs (Private Practice, Station 19) so I'd say it counts as a franchise.

More of a soap, isn't it?

Source on breaking bad?

SNW does have some great moments. I loved the "documentary" episode most specifically, because it was a neat spin on things that let them experiment a lot with the cinematography and documentary-style shots.

As the documentary was the real 'focus' of the episode, the plot of transporting the enslaved alien creature/ship was allowed to be a self-contained story like old-school trek used to be, and I really appreciated the reflection on the morality of what they do as a crew, and as Starfleet.

There was a lot of TNG's DNA in there, and I liked that.

I just don't think we're ever going to get a show that hits like TNG/VOY/DS9 (and even ENT/TOS) again

Given how much bad pressure and online criticism TNG, Voy and especially DS9 got, I'm surprised they even tried Ent. SNW was a great show, but don't forget just how much fans and execs hated every single new series that came out. Your treasured classics were dragged through the muck regularly.

I still get frustrated when we get a big games conference to show off a bunch of trailers, and a streamer watching one will start rattling off “Oh. Soldier of Fortune remake? Bloodborne 2? God of War?” up to the title card. Then, when it’s some fresh new IP, not a sequel, everyone has a reaction of “Oh. Dunno what that is.”

Gamers are very much complicit in the terrible state of game remakes/sequels.

Imagine that. Two or three seasons for a tv show always srem like the sweet spot. Same with movies. Terminator, great. Terminator 2, even better. Terminator 3 to wherever we are now, what the fuck even is this?

I think a lot of people watch long lasting tv shows out of habit, not because they are good or holding up. Bob's burger is the only exception i can think off, and maybe some other niche shows, if they are good they are good and if they have more to say, go ahead.

One of my favourite shows used to be community. I have the fondest memories watching it for the first time. Now every time i rewatch it i got reminded that only the first two seasons are really good, and then it just falls apart.

I genuinely think that some people hit a certain age and then simply lose the will to explore new things. The amount of absolute garbage reboots and sequels that my parents watch just because they liked the original thing is far too many. But it's certainly not just them. I know people younger than me that will just always listen to new albums of artists they used to enjoy even if it's hot garbage and talk about it like it's pretty good. I'm certainly not an authority on what people can enjoy, but I can absolutely be disappointed in people that reach this point where familiar=good.

Haven’t watched it many years, went and found one of the tree house of horrors the other day because someone recommended it. It was alright

I loved the simpsons but have not seen an episode in maybe a decade or more.

I always have to pop up in these threads because I'm out there, and I'm not alone. I've been watching The Simpsons, more or less, non-stop since it first started airing.

When I was younger it played twice a day during the week with a new episode every Sunday. So when it comes to the earlier seasons, the ten or so seasons often viewed as the golden era, I've seen those dozens of times.

In the 2000s watching TV at a regularly scheduled time wasn't as much of a priority and the availability of videos on the Internet began to increase, so I usually watched The Simpsons that way. When the film came out in 2007 I was there opening day.

As streaming services became popular in the 2010s I started to watch The Simpsons there instead. Although these streaming services rarely had a backlog, just the current season, but I had them all collected over the years.

In the late 2010s my roommates and I decided to watch every episode of The Simpsons but not in release order. We would just pick a random season and episode and watch a few episodes a week over the course of two years.

Now in the 2020s we sometimes get together to watch, sometimes watch solo. I'm personally much more strict about watching every week, they usually watch in short bursts and I don't mind rewatching recent episodes.

But... Is it good? Yeah mostly. Not every episode is great.

The episode that aired this past Sunday isn't anything special, a few funny moments but Albert Brooks who voiced Hank Scorpio and Russ Cargill (from the movie) voiced a new character and that was fun.

The Treehouse of Horror from two Sunday's ago was much better, so if you want a recent episode then watch that.

No it isn't ever going to be as great as the golden age of The Simpsons, but it's still fun to watch and I still laugh, so that's a win to me.

My kids are mainlining it most days (when they're allowed TV). They're pre-teens and they love it. I don't mind so much, basically because nostalgia - and at least it's not Teen Titans Go, which was so fast it gave me a headache

Mcdonalds food taste so bad nowadays.

You know what's crazy? The show has 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.

Unfortunately, the movie that tried to end it, Saw 3D, sucked.

I did enjoy Saw X but the end was a little wacky (consequence of being a prequel?) and I don't know how they're gonna bounce back from that. And now the next movie is stuck in production limbo.
Ultimately killing John Kramer so early in the franchise was (IMO) a big mistake.
Having a movie with him as the lead was so refreshing, but goddamn you mfs should have never killed him in the first place! Let alone have waited so long to try to rectify your mistake!!

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.

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.

The weird Sci-Fi turn they took on Sister Location was easily the worst thing they did to this franchise and has derailed all future entries, change my mind.

I started One Piece about 3 years ago and have read all the manga and just recently caught up on the anime.

Some of the things I really enjoy about it:

The story progression ramps up nicely. Nobody is that OP from the get-go, and the stakes and power levels have increased steadily as the story goes on. There is definitely plot armor, but it's not like every bad guy is on the same level as the previous one.

There is great representation. There are people of different races. There are gay-coded, trans, and gender fluid characters, there are young and old people. And none of them are really played for laughs for those traits. All character types have heros, villians, comic relief, and serious characters. And none of the characters with real screen/page time are flat and one dimensional. This along with the power scaling, really makes the adventure feel important and like a fleshed out and lived in world that you are part of. I can only imagine this is even moreso true for people that have been fans since the late 90s.

At almost 1200 chapters, I feel like I understand this fictional world and how it works. There are macguffins and such, but nothing that feels out of place. Characters still behave how you would expect them to behave and the creator doesn't just pull stuff out of nowhere. There is still great continuity with the earliest things that happened in the story. There are many familiar characters, but more still come and go, but not before becoming necessary parts of the full tale. It's not like Star Wars where it feels there's about 2 dozen characters with names in the whole universe.

And the last thing I'll say is in spite of all this, it still does stuff just for laughs regularly. It knows it's a story primarily for young boys, and despite being one of the best loved anime/manga ever, it doesn't take itself all that seriously. It's a damn fun time to read and watch almost every bit of it with few exceptions. The stuff coming out now is as good or better as it's ever been.

Like anything else, it won't be for ever single person out there, so if you don't like it, you don't like it. I saw a few random episodes on Toonami in the 90s and was WTF is this random stuff then. It is a weird thing to dive into the middle of, and a lot of it is outright silly. But I had people at work keep telling me I'd like it, I finally gave in, and I was hooked from the first chapter.

I tried it after seeing the pirate flag thing being used in Nepal Gen Z Protests and I thought it must be a cool story if its so popular, so I tried watching it... and I got bored so quickly. I mean, it just feels very weird to me, doesn't "click" for me, oh well, I guess my brain is just different.