• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    I…

    Do not know how I feel about bringing back a charachter who does SO MUCH because of her absence.

    Too bad I won’t be finding out if it works, as Sony won’t be porting this to PC.

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      With the current state of the entertainment industry I’m surprised they still didn’t do a LOTR movie explaining Tom Bombadil.

      There isn’t a single exec that understands why it’s important for big narratives to have mysteries.

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        They understand, but they also understand that when they need to make something new, and the old classic already had a complete story, their best chance to make money is off of something familiar. So not Tom Bombadil, but that’s how we ended up with Solo: A Star Wars Story and every Terminator after 2.

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          They could move the story forward with Atreus as the main character, that would still be familiar enough. Prequels are very hard to do right.

          Terminator is a special case, because time travel limits the interesting time span for the story if you don’t keep erasing the previous movies plot.

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            Even Terminator 2 changed the time travel rules established in the first movie, but at least it felt like its ideas were still original. And I didn’t even mind Terminator 3.

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              THANK YOU, I always feel I’m the only one who acknowledges that. Don’t get me wrong, I like T2, but it completely broke what was established in T1. I do understand why, you can only do that twist once, after the audience knows time is a loop you can’t add meaningful stories because there are no stakes. But it’s still annoying, that they undid one of the major things of the first movie.

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      I’m a little torn about death tropes; even Kratos has “died”, and then beat up Hades and slashed his way out of hell. I think it has some premise within the world.