Thread:Mikex20/@comment-24652145-20161205220314/@comment-24652145-20161214235033

Basically I think they wanted to draw the older audiences into the movies but Will Shatner and the rest were simply too "old" to believably portray a younger, fitter, and more action-packed adventurers that they needed. So they wanted to reboot the series, shed off the decades of canon and inertia that they had developed yet still have Trekkie name recognizability.

But yes, I think they should have looked into maybe developing a set of movies based on the whole TNG era. Instead of just focusing on Picard and the rest, they could have tapped into the DS9 and VOY instead, inject some their blood into movie franchise.

I know what you mean about the whole resetting and erasing timelines for the Marvel and DC Comics stuff too. DC needed the whole reset of the 1985 Crisis badly but more recently? They seem to think that every few years, reboot the whole continuity will attract audiences to figure out what is going on. Marvel apparenty jumped on the same bandwagon and both companies seem to think that they can have their cake and eat it too at the same time by having young and fresh mainstream heroes yet still reference some of the past continuity yet ignore the rest.

I don't get how they can have a younger Bruce Wayne/Batman yet have his grown up partner, Dick Grayson/Nightwing around with Jason Todd/Red Hood shooting things up with Tim Drake/Red Robin as part of the Teen Titans and now Damian Wayne/Robin around. Simultaneously.

I can get rebooting the universe. But reboot it so that it makes some sense.

As for Marvel? Feh. I can get that they want the Fantastic Four and the X-Men franchise back under their control but no longer having the FF comics published? And scaling back the mutants so that the Inhumans take their place seem to be a bit absurd.

I strongly suspect that this whole rebooting is more managerial and based on company demands rather than trying to keep a coherent universe in-line anymore. Ugh, sorry about the whole ranting, I get frustrated when I try and read some of the new comics. I haven't completely given up on them but I have noticed that I don't follow them as much as I did before.