Which franchise of three or more works has the highest ratio of hits to misses?

Whizbang Dustyboots

Gnometown Hero
I kind of hate to say it, but Game of Thrones may have the best batting average overall. How many clunkers do they have? And when you add in Dunk & Egg, the average goes back up again.
 

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Moonmover

Adventurer
 Halo.

I mean this is subjective, but by reckoning, 6 or 7 of the main series of eight games are excellent. The Halo Wars subseries isn't great, but it's okay. The many novels and comics are all, at worst, decent mil sci fi.
 


Dioltach

Legend
I love, love, love the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The novels definitely take a dip with So Long and Thanks for All the Fish and really go downhill with Mostly Harmless, given that Adams actively resented having to write each book. But the overall quality of the franchise, including radio, books, Infocom game, stage plays, etc., is extremely high. That might be cheating since so much of it is just remixing the stories from the radio, though, even if each version adds new stuff.
There used to be a text adventure up on the BBC site. I never managed to escape from getting crushed when the house is bulldozed.
 

Whizbang Dustyboots

Gnometown Hero
There used to be a text adventure up on the BBC site. I never managed to escape from getting crushed when the house is bulldozed.
Yeah, that's the Infocom game. It's around, legally, in several places.

Get your junk mail south of the house and then lie down in the mud.

It gets much harder when you're trying to get the Babel fish out of the dispenser in the Dentrassi quarters aboard the Vogon ship soon after.
 

Dioltach

Legend
If not, the Gentlemen Bastards series is so far comprised of only hits. Admittedly, the fourth book is much delayed, but the three we have are awesome.
I'm not sure whether it's officially set in the same world, but his short story "A Year and a Day in Old Theradane" is another hit and definitely matches the tone of the Gentlemen Bastards.
 



Snarf Zagyg

Notorious Liquefactionist
Supporter
My hot take - I'm sorry, but by the third movie they'd drifted off into being... silly.

Counterpoint- every single major movie released in the past 10 years (non-John Wick, Hollywood edition) would kill for an action sequence with half of the verve and one-tenth of the excitement of just the single set-piece in the antique shop in John Wick 3.

These are movies that have transcended such ordinary concerns such as "silly" or "over-the-top" or "should the protagonist have more than three lines of dialogue" to enter into that rarified sphere of the sublime; more of a religious experience than a droll entertainment waited down by the earthly expectations of needless trappings.
 

Umbran

Mod Squad
Staff member
Supporter
Counterpoint- every single major movie released in the past 10 years (non-John Wick, Hollywood edition) would kill for an action sequence with half of the verve and one-tenth of the excitement of just the single set-piece in the antique shop in John Wick 3.

With respect, "major" is doing some unspecified heavy lifting there.

These are movies that have transcended such ordinary concerns such as "silly" or "over-the-top" or "should the protagonist have more than three lines of dialogue" to enter into that rarified sphere of the sublime; more of a religious experience than a droll entertainment waited down by the earthly expectations of needless trappings.

I am sorry, I am a heathen, and do not worship at the Altar of Action.
 

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