This guy just keeps getting more and more wonderful ❤️

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      2 days ago

      It’s a bit unfair to rope LOTR into this, it only has a single spin-off series which is pretty great. Which is pretty great if you’re not a fascist or hardcore nerd of the books. And hardcore nerds only have “fun” criticism discussing how the story spanning 3000 years is being adapted.

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        2 days ago

        Mmmmmm. LOTR has 6 movies running 18hrs theatrical, 22hrs extended cut.

        Multiple anime, TV show, comics, graphic novels, books, spin offs and more…over done. Over cooked. Trite.

        Star wars has 9 mainline movies spanning 20hrs.

        Multiple anime, TV show, comics, graphic novels, books, spin offs and more…Disney is literally wearing this franchise as a skin suit to keep it going.

        The Marvel Infinity Saga core movies, 19 hours…etc…blah blah blah…Disney. Morning Erection…something something, cum daddy.

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          Haha forgot about the Hobbit and didn’t know about the anime. Comics, well, whatever. But I don’t think it can be compared to the constant marketing and big screen content of the other franchises. Tolkien estate is pretty careful not to turn out endless pulp.

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            4 hours ago

            Okay I’ll give it to you. But there are still significant and painful advertisement campaigns that are beating us over the head with the other 3 franchises

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              I actually think often about how franchises are (miss)managed and how IP laws suck and should work. Just watched “Dune Prophecy” yesterday, which I avoided so far because it’s partially based on Frank Herbert’s hack writer of a son’s novel (it was ok though). Besides the profit motive, there it seems more like a psychological need to bastardize the franchise. Marvel was never serious so I don’t mind it much, it’s just annoying. Star Wars sequels suck but again, never was serious literature. I do hate the new Star Trek Kelvin timeline with a burning passion though because Star Trek was a cultural touchstone.