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CyricZ posted...

Yeah this is something I learned some time after the fact.

It's like if for the first Star Trek movie, they turned Kirk into a selfish jerk who was the real villain and Captain Decker was the new hero who ended up thwarting him.

Like you wouldn't be able to get away with that shit today. Like they made Luke a grumpy old man in Star Wars who eventually turned around and look how that went.

I also recently came to learn that the first movie apparently craps on the original series. It's very similar to... well I'm drawing a blank on the series for some reason but it's similar to when an established series has a protagonist that the fans follow and love, and then they kill him off or something for this newer younger model and expect the fans to be invested in the new guy.

I'd joke that probably the reason it "flew" back then was because everyone who even watched the show when the movie came out was already a grownass man and there wasn't the whole "delayed manchild latency" of the modern era where audiences take their cartoons/media too seriously.

Edit: Oh another thing I wanted to mention that I thought was funny is that the movies themselves where gonna do the whole "replace ethan hunt with a new guy" thing. I think jeremy renner was propped up to take the place of tom cruise (which they also planned with the jason bourne series) but then I guess they didn't? And lol jeremy was then regulated to being a side character making jokes and quips away from all the action
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