Same reason Star Wars doesn’t belong in the same discussion of Lord of the Rings or Marvel at least in terms of how they became popular.  The latter two arrive with fans “waiting” for them.

If we’re honest, what’s the franchise? It’s just humans with Xenomorphs rinse and repeat. Basically outside of Weyland Yutani, the Engineers, Androids killing people, and face huggers it really hasn’t had more than that.

Counterpoint:

Every time I see Michelle Yeoh, I feel kind of sorry for Cynthia Rothrock.

Probably the issue there is teaching itself is a discipline in and of itself and just because you could teach in the 90's doesn’t mean what you did works in 2020 and vice versa.

I suspect - no he didn’t.

This mostly -

Wow. This went from why is James being and edgelord to wow, Japan strikes again in the span of about 2 minutes.

I basically stopped waiting for Sony and just bought an Xbox Series X. I’m sure I’d like the PS5 as well as my last devices have been Playstations, but I’ve been fairly unimpressed with Sony’s attempts to keep the market stocked and I’ve gotten the distinct impression that sort of like their exclusives, leadership…

I think you can pretty much give Cameron the benefit of the doubt that he isn’t an idiot and read it more as a story writing joke.

I read the original, not the edit.  So yea.

It becomes an antitrust issue if the production costs that Netflix was being given were inflated to create a decision to cancel the order just for Disney to simply restart production cheaper in house to then compete with Netflix’s distribution platform. Couple this with Disney’s purchase of Fox which placed more IP…

I mean you’ve sort of got him pegged. I’d contrast this with John Carmack who left Meta after 3+ years because he just couldn’t get anything optimized.

People act like companies can be “50 people” all the time because frankly they’re idiots. A startup can be 50 to 15 people no problem.

I’m sure fans are fine with it.

I mean I kind of agree with you? What’s interesting to me about this case is it’s making the argument Microsoft can’t grow this big because if it does, it can do the things other companies are doing which already suggests problems with the market to begin with and that things in it aren’t necessarily done towards an…

I was actually a member of the now defunct site Whedonesque. Whedon was absolutely a monster when it came to Nepotism. It was not only his family, but he would rely on the same actors in everything.

Exactly.

This is an interesting point. I’d slightly amend it and say “you can’t just write ‘whatever’ when dealing with existing characters.” Space Opera is just that - Opera. With grand arcs and character traits.

This is what happens when you don’t really respect your own themes.