Our culture has real trouble grasping that we can't bring back what it felt like to see The Prisoner/Ghostbusters/Star Wars the first time by doing them again, because the thing that made them compelling is that they were different. We can only feel that feeling again by making more new things.

That's both difficult and risky, though – the sensible corporate decision is to go with the safe product with a more-or-less guaranteed ROI. So...

Twin peaks s3 lampshades this amazingly imo. Lynch knows it can never be the same again; though imo the new stuff to me is even better despite/because of it being different

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If I didn't fear for my bones, I'd climb up to a rooftop and shout this.

Yes exactly.

Fox were upset with Matt Groening when he made Futurama as they wanted something "The Simpsons in Space" from the new project. Matt kindly informed them that Futurama was like The Simpsons. It was new and different. Fox then cancelled the show. And it got cancelled four more times after that.

Old people can literally never feel it again. It's neuroscience.

I agree. Nowadays it would make an uproar on social media if a work print were shown at a Vegas convention and one of the movie stars would casually reference that viewers are accompanied by call girls and blow.

Nice to see you here Wesley!

Or here me out… we just need to find the exact right ai prompt to mash them all together into The Star Buster Prisoner