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What new directions, castings etc. have proved so unpopular that people tried to go back to the 'way we were' so to speak?
This has of course happened in comics multiple times, although in many cases the replacement heroes are fairly popular and even get their own spin-offs, such as James Rhodes/Iron Man II/War Machine. Other times, it doesn't quite work, such as with the Spider-Man clone saga, in which Peter Parker was replaced with his clone, "Ben Reilly" (Who we were led to believe for a time was actually the original, with Spider-man from the 70s-90s being the clone). Eventually things went back to the status quo, until of course the recent controversial One More Day thing.
Explaining the topic title, George Lazenby kind of flopped as James Bond so they got Sean Connery to do the role one last time (and even that wasn't quite the last time) in "Diamonds Are Forever".
An example of this in sci-fi which didn't happen but could've was in DOCTOR WHO. The Sixth Doctor infamously was very unpopular with audiences and fans, and was of course eventually replaced by Sylvestor McCoy before the classic series ended. However, at one point the producers strongly considered bringing back Patrick Troughton, the popular second Doctor, by possibly having the Doctor "degenerate". Interestingly, out of all the Doctors so far, McCoy does bear the most resemblance to Troughton physically, so it's possible this Trougton thing was going through the producer's mind at the time.
This has of course happened in comics multiple times, although in many cases the replacement heroes are fairly popular and even get their own spin-offs, such as James Rhodes/Iron Man II/War Machine. Other times, it doesn't quite work, such as with the Spider-Man clone saga, in which Peter Parker was replaced with his clone, "Ben Reilly" (Who we were led to believe for a time was actually the original, with Spider-man from the 70s-90s being the clone). Eventually things went back to the status quo, until of course the recent controversial One More Day thing.
Explaining the topic title, George Lazenby kind of flopped as James Bond so they got Sean Connery to do the role one last time (and even that wasn't quite the last time) in "Diamonds Are Forever".
An example of this in sci-fi which didn't happen but could've was in DOCTOR WHO. The Sixth Doctor infamously was very unpopular with audiences and fans, and was of course eventually replaced by Sylvestor McCoy before the classic series ended. However, at one point the producers strongly considered bringing back Patrick Troughton, the popular second Doctor, by possibly having the Doctor "degenerate". Interestingly, out of all the Doctors so far, McCoy does bear the most resemblance to Troughton physically, so it's possible this Trougton thing was going through the producer's mind at the time.
