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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9261228" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>They were commenting on you literally complaining that no one would stop and argue with you over it. As in, no one was taking the bait. Which, notwithstanding one comment from them and now one from me, seems to be universally the case.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Tent Pegs, Gully Dwarves, walking treasure chests, pig farmers, princesses of mars, knights who say 'ni!'... I don't think the specifics matter. I think we*'re at a crossroads where we're finding out the limits of how much of our favorite things from years gone by are going to get churned back up in the cultural zeitgeist and made mainstream. There may have been a bit of non-representative data churned up for a while with the LotR movies, everyone's kids running around with Transformers and Marvel toys, the evergreen (if every arguable) Star Trek/Star Wars/Dr. Who, and yes GoT**. The rest, be it Pern or Dune or Foundation all seem to end up being very moderate hits, and it doesn't seem to matter how big a deal they were for us when we were 14.</p><p><em>*nerds of a certain generation</em></p><p><em>**which, revisionist framing be damned, was a huge deal for nerdom's mainstream cachet for many years</em></p><p></p><p>Some of them aren't as good as we remember them. Others are but don't stand out with 20-50 years of other stuff also out there doing much the same (sometimes of same quality). Some would do well as a show that doesn't need X million viewers per episode, but require (for live action) budgets that necessitate that. Plenty of others simply found the best way for their stories to be told in their original medium and trying to adapt them to movies and streaming simply because everyone else treats those mediums as the place to be is perhaps misguided. There is so much narrative media that comes out every generation (ranging from wretched to great and everything in between) that plenty of high-quality material from right now never finds a base. That anything from a previous generation finds a new audience is something of a miracle (/evidence that yesteryear's wide-eyed audience are the media executives of today). <em>Dragonlance</em> is probably akin to something like <em>The Munsters</em> -- a lot of people fond memories of it (probably not remembering some awkward or cluncky bits it had), but there's no specific reason that modern mainstream viewers are going to flock to a revival of it unless there's some specific reason/hook/particularly well done execution.</p><p></p><h3></h3></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 9261228, member: 6799660"] They were commenting on you literally complaining that no one would stop and argue with you over it. As in, no one was taking the bait. Which, notwithstanding one comment from them and now one from me, seems to be universally the case. Tent Pegs, Gully Dwarves, walking treasure chests, pig farmers, princesses of mars, knights who say 'ni!'... I don't think the specifics matter. I think we*'re at a crossroads where we're finding out the limits of how much of our favorite things from years gone by are going to get churned back up in the cultural zeitgeist and made mainstream. There may have been a bit of non-representative data churned up for a while with the LotR movies, everyone's kids running around with Transformers and Marvel toys, the evergreen (if every arguable) Star Trek/Star Wars/Dr. Who, and yes GoT**. The rest, be it Pern or Dune or Foundation all seem to end up being very moderate hits, and it doesn't seem to matter how big a deal they were for us when we were 14. [I]*nerds of a certain generation **which, revisionist framing be damned, was a huge deal for nerdom's mainstream cachet for many years[/I] Some of them aren't as good as we remember them. Others are but don't stand out with 20-50 years of other stuff also out there doing much the same (sometimes of same quality). Some would do well as a show that doesn't need X million viewers per episode, but require (for live action) budgets that necessitate that. Plenty of others simply found the best way for their stories to be told in their original medium and trying to adapt them to movies and streaming simply because everyone else treats those mediums as the place to be is perhaps misguided. There is so much narrative media that comes out every generation (ranging from wretched to great and everything in between) that plenty of high-quality material from right now never finds a base. That anything from a previous generation finds a new audience is something of a miracle (/evidence that yesteryear's wide-eyed audience are the media executives of today). [I]Dragonlance[/I] is probably akin to something like [I]The Munsters[/I] -- a lot of people fond memories of it (probably not remembering some awkward or cluncky bits it had), but there's no specific reason that modern mainstream viewers are going to flock to a revival of it unless there's some specific reason/hook/particularly well done execution. [HEADING=2][/HEADING] [/QUOTE]
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