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Rebooting is Bad


There are lots of Reasons Why Rebooting is Bad. 

The first reason is that you lose all your work unless you save. Where memory is audience memory you must not forget to save. 

So that's the first reason. 

The second reason is that parents still don't die soon enough, despite the best efforts of your marketing departments to trigger strokes by quietly eliciting the braying pleas of the children come Christmas for that latest iteration of that line of that world of that toy and so on.  

We all love Christmas of course, but let's be honest we don't, and the hypnoadvertising of the toy/movie companies homogenising our kids' lives are not to blame, we are.  Well, you are. I wasn't stupid enough to have kids of my own.  

Now my misplaced overbearing love must be transferred on to yours, however average they may be.

Another reason why reboots are bad is that reboots are almost always bad.  Only those suffering from Erythropoietic Protoporphyria or Photodermatitis would truly flee from the new Star Trek movie reboots, but the rest of us, half-blinded, and confused by how Simon Pegg could inhabit both disparate continuums merely avoid. 

 We all know Wrath of Khan was best and First Contact directed by Jonathan Frakes is the real epitome of the style a more modern Trek film should take.  Notwithstanding the Pegg-entity broaching the fan-field between Trek and Star Wars, we also have to deal with reboots here. 

Rather than facet htis particular minuscule point directly, I will instead mention that it is set in a galaxy far far away.

Yet we have to get the same characters! A  new Han Solo! A new Yoda!

While using the setting of a galaxy, which while not infinite is the to the likes of us actually so,  Hollywood brazenly flaunts the same old same old often not even bothering to change the names, only the actors and not even for a new generation. 

There may or may not be a limit to how far out of touch the fiction of a culture becomes with reality until the culture itself suffers but it is clearly problematic in the extreme that more than half of the new characters we get are parodies of old ones. 

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