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I don't really know why that "understandable". We see this with so many TV shows and movie francises. There's a reason why there's only two seasons of The Office in the UK version, but it's just beaten to death in the US version. Same with The Simpsons, Futurama, Big Bang Theory, pretty much the entire Marvel francise, Star Wars, Jurassic Park and so many more shows and movies.

You just find yourself in the corner yield "Please stop, it dead! It's been dead for years!" For example Star Wars, that francise is completely ruined, but the fans are insufferable and just keeps pouring money into something that quite frankly sucks by now.

Why must everything be milked dry to the point where we start hating it?

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If "we all" hated it, they'd stop milking it, because the cow would be dry.

So clearly someone, somewhere is enjoying it - so they keep making them.

And it's safer from a business perspective for Blizzard to release "another WoW expansion" than try to make a new game.

(There is also the aspect that you can sell on nostalgia with the toys, etc, and that you can continue to sell the "old toys" and movies and account them as if they're part of the new, which makes you look better, etc).

I'm going to disagree on the Star Wars example because Andor is peak Star Wars. And in this hypothetical it would have never been made.

I was going to reply gp with something in the vein of what you said

> ...Andor is peak Star Wars...

This is both true and false depending on how you mean it: Andor is one of the best story-telling set in the Star Wars universe, and yet, there's nothing emblematically "Star Wars" about it. The same story and characters could have been dropped into any universe, and it would have been fantastic television. It could have been a story about a partisan in WwII, or set in Babylon 5 or in any of the Mass Effect / Silo / Godfather / Fall Out / Dune / Marvel / DC universes, and it would still have worked been largely the same story. Andor gives to the Star Wars universe far more than it receives from the same, it was an expensive labor of love by people delivering their best work - I don't think we'll see anything like it again from Star Wars.

I know this trope has been beaten to death elsewhere too, but it certainly seems like we haven't seen much really 'new' for like 20 years (as far as popular media that is)

If you beat the dead horse and money falls out, would you stop beating the dead horse?

That depends on what you value, the money, or the art/story/quality. I get that studios also need to make money, but it feels like we swung to heavily in the "make money" direction.

Nothing forces parents to keep a television in their house at all.

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