James Gunn rehired as GotG Vol 3 Director.

[Yukaphile]

It's more akin to the phenomenon of new writers taking over the reins of old, popular, and well-loved franchises and running them into the ground, so that all you're left with is the sense it was done for money. Again, ReBoot: The Guardian Code and Teen Titans Go are pale shadows of their antecedent selves. And then there's stuff like Star Wars and Star Trek, which everyone already knows my opinion about. Not to mention stuff like the Bay Transformers movies. What Hamill said about how what's important is how it sells is absolutely right, and it just feels more transparent than it did two decades ago.

[Makeshift Python]

Again, because you’re getting old.

[Yukaphile]

Or maybe our new generation of entertainment-going audiences have lower standards? More easily swallow mindless garbage?

[Makeshift Python]

30 year olds likely said the same shit in the 90s. I should know, I was raised by them and saw how they reacted to stuff like Ren and Stimpy.

[Yukaphile]

No, it's not an issue of age here, so much as the tech that exploded in the early aughts to the point it makes our obsolete tech of the 1990s feel that much farther away and distant. I saw a great post on this.

https://thoughtcatalog.com/jacob-geers/ ... h-the-90s/

[Makeshift Python]

It’s like Chuck said in his Transformers review of how pop culture has this 20 year lapse where marketers aim at adults by using nostalgia.

In a few years we’ll no doubt have a 2000s craze, if it hasn’t already started.

[Yukaphile]

Did you actually read the article...?

[Makeshift Python]

I’m not sure what’s so profound other than it’s repeating the same rhetoric every generation goes through which is “fuck, I’m old, I miss the days of not having to be responsible and just be a kid” it’s a sentiment EVERY generation goes through. It’s why in the 90s all the rage at that time was 70s nostalgia.