There are some other examples of this, though I think they're usually cases of ignoring one or two sequels (Superman, Highlander) or ignoring everything but the original (several of the Godzilla reboots).
Keeping ever TV series and movie from 1966–2005 and throwing out every TV series for the following 20 years (24 seasons consisting of 261 episodes) would be super-weird.
It would also be an excellent way of killing all goodwill of the people who are actually watching the new stuff in hopes of pleasing people who will complain no matter what they do. It would be the Worst of Both Worlds (not to be confused with the Michael Jan Friedman comic story about an alternate universe where they lost to the Borg).
Tachyon Pulse and Cosmic Book News are malignant pustules on the inner ass cheek of the internet.
But Turtletrekker, how do you really feel?Tachyon Pulse and Cosmic Book News are malignant pustules on the inner ass cheek of the internet.
Is that like an inner eyelid?
Maybe don't answer that.
Maybe don't answer that.
You're being far kinder than I would be.Tachyon Pulse and Cosmic Book News are malignant pustules on the inner ass cheek of the internet.
Halloween...
Terminator...
Hollywood is littered with would-be franchises that went nowhere (The Shadow, Eragon, Jumper, etc.).
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"Trusted sources," aka "I made it the fuck up."
If you can't trust yourself...
I think there have been a few stories like the one below lately. Tachyon Pulse Podcast via Cosmic Book News via the subreddit where people who got kicked off of r/startrek congregate ever since r/star_trek (and others?) got shut down for "violating Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct", and if that chain of sources isn't enough to make any news dubious, here's the summary of the summary of the summary of the story:
Note that this is all such a horrible idea that even r/star_trek_ seems to universally hate it and/or consider it nonsense.
Setting aside my fondness for most Secret Hideout Star Trek productions and my personal hope that their contract gets extended, I have trouble imagining that CBS was daft enough to give them partial ownership of all "original contributions" to the last ten years' worth of Star Trek. Distribution rights to the episodes they co-produced, sure, if that were true of the concepts you think you'd see it mentioned of the colophon for tie-in novels and comics instead of just "STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc." This all feels like a flimsy excuse to indulge in a fantasy of having the shows they don't like disappear.
In any case, the Romulan supernova originated from a Bad Robot production, not a Secret Hideout production, so weird example.
And I just love the detail of a trilogy where all three films are mapped out before a single frame is show. That sounds less like it came from a studio or more like it came from someone bitter about the Star Wars sequels. (Ironically, the original Star Wars trilogy would not have lived up to that requirement.)
That Reddit post was 8 months ago. Simon Kinberg isn't doing jack.
Tachyon Pulse: "I've heard from a very trusted source that --"
Mum: "Get downstairs and do your dishes before Grandad gets here!"
Tachyon Pulse: "I'M LIVE STREAMING! Sorry about that. As I was just say --"
Mum: "Are you making up stories on the internet again?"
Tachyon Pulse: "THEY'RE TRUSTED SOURCES MUM!"
Mum: "Get downstairs and do your dishes before Grandad gets here!"
Tachyon Pulse: "I'M LIVE STREAMING! Sorry about that. As I was just say --"
Mum: "Are you making up stories on the internet again?"
Tachyon Pulse: "THEY'RE TRUSTED SOURCES MUM!"
Argh, I can't believe I missed that the post was eight months old.
Sorry, I was chasing down something that showed up in my news feeds out of curiosity and somehow got redirected in the process to what I thought was a summary of the newer article and somehow didn't notice the date. Or that the topic had shifted slightly.
I'm trying to say this in a way that conveys what I'm thinking accurately but I apologize for wasting people's time in... a slightly different way than I thought I was wasting it? I mistook this for new fake news when it was old fake news. (This probably sounds sarcastic, but I'm genuinely embarrassed by my sloppiness here.) Thanks for pointing it out @Dukhat .
Here's the actual article that showed up in my news feeds and that I was trying to get a summary of without directly providing it ad revenue, but I'm just going to reference it directly to avoid making the same mistake again. Best I can tell it says less than nothing:
Star Trek Reboot Going Back To Wrath of Khan, Next Generation Roots (Exclusive) - Cosmic Book News
David Ellison's plan for Star Trek at Paramount-WBD returns the franchise to its Wrath of Khan and Next Generation roots, insiders say.
cosmicbook.news
He then proceeds to... basically say nothing, other than the 80's were great, and supposedly the Paramount/WB merger will result in... Zack Snyder's The Dark Knight Returns?? I swear I'm not making this up. Someone is making it up, but it's not me.
But basically this somehow multi-page article is saying that upcoming Trek is going to be like both The Wrath of Khan and The Next Generation, which is definitely a single cohesive feeling that you can apply to one thing.
I mean, isn't that what Star Trek Nemesis was? And who wouldn't want more Star Trek Nemesis?
"Insiders" in this instance refers to the voices in their heads.
Ah yes... inside their heads. It all makes sense now.
