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Originally Posted by Dolemite

Yeah, that was a huge problem I had with the film as well, bearing in mind that this was a trillion-dollar endeavor staffed with the very best of the best that a mega-corporation like Weyland could find for an unprecedented mission, and half of them turn out to be fuck-ups and retards.

That's a good summary. What was marketed as something mind-stretching turned out to be little more than Jurassic Park In Space.

The disillusionment was similar after J.J. Abrams was turned loose on Star Trek. Instead of something moving and inspiring, we got a weird, shallow parody. Even the redesigned starship seems like a surfboard mockery, a kind of oblique insult.

What's going on? Is it a sign of the times, that so many shows and stories are pale substitutes or rehashes of what has come before?