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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 8438164" data-attributes="member: 6716779">It's not gate keeping at all (although it can be).  Take a franchise it doesn't matter what one. Franchises have existing fans by default. Theoretically your reboot or whatever needs to appeal to those fans otherwise why use that franchise in the first place.  Some things should be there immediately obvious your idea is gonna alienate those fans.  An obvious one is the latest Terminator film killing John Connor. The entire franchise was essentially centered around him and they killed him off.  4E is another one specifically the class design that should have immediately been an obvious problem.  So there's big obvious things in various franchises you shouldn't do if you've got half a brain. The fact some people do it anyway means they're fools, blinded by their own arrogance/hubris or blinded by their ideology.  We could go through several franchises and look at big obvious mistakes they made.</blockquote>