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When I first heard about the reboot all I could think of was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HeNZBItzps

I'm going to call this news a win.

It wasn't a reboot, but a continuation. That doesn't mean it would have been good, of course (cf Universe), but better than a reboot.

Not to mention what Amazon did the Lord of the Rings. It is probably a good thing.

Hopefully we hit that mythical "hollywood level audio/video" AI before too much longer and really creative people can run pirate series.

The new Expanse was good though.

Sad they didn’t finish it. The later books seemed like they were written “to be movies/series” with less political stuff and more visuals / speculative sci-fi. Plus the story has an actual half decent conclusion.

To me the plight of Hollywood is “forever shows” where the writers start without knowing where it would end, so shows never really “end” they just slowly fizzle out without ever getting to the end.

I simply loved “the good place” for having such a powerful conclusion.

I'm currently reading the first book that takes place after the conclusion of the show. There's a large time jump and I suspect they didn't want to age up the actors for 3 seasons.