A lot of people won't get this one, but I 100% agree! This is where Bionicle lost me - I really enjoyed the story up through Mask of Light, and then instead of moving forward after that, they did a flashback to Metru Nui. And this was fine, but then they did a flashback within the flashback and the story just lost all its momentum by spending multiple years going backwards instead of showing us what happened next in the present.
This is one of the big turnoffs for me when I saw TFA. They just plugged in new baddies to replace the ones that were beaten in the original trilogy to continue what was pretty much the same war.
Are you talking about Hyperion? I read the two Hyperion novels but I wasn't sure if I should read the others. Seemed like a pretty complete story to me.
Thankfully once they got back to the present with the Inika/Piraka they kept moving forward without anymore prequel stuff.
to be fair in terminator 2 I believe the ter.i ator tells them that they likely cannot change the future, ut they attempt to anyways out of hope. Being able to stop judgment day doesn't make sense with how tine works in terminator anyways.a more accurate one is from t1 to t2
I'll start with Alien 3
"Yes, Ripley saved her friends and escaped the Alien infested planet but they all died off screen and now she's alone again in another planet with a loose Alien that somehow escaped with her"
Yep. I'm definitely starting to feel like the premise is being intentionally misunderstood just to push the narrative that it's a bad film.
Surely a Rise of Skywalker thread? Yes Rey's parents were nobodies but her grandfather was Palpatine. Yes Kylo killed Snoke and became Supreme Leader but in the first few minutes he'll find a new Sith dude to be a lackey to and him being leader will barely matter and feel like it's forgotten about after a certain point. Yes Luke faced down the First Order and reaffirmed his legend that was spread across the galaxy but no-one cared until Lando turns up.
Oh I don't think it invalidates anything. It always felt like this nihilistic, "you can literally never escape them now." it's super bleak but wrapped up with a lot of dark comedy and body horror.
Ah yes, where somehow they went back on "The hard to kill bad guy literally gets his head cut off after a great final confrontation with his archenemy".
At the end of Halloween H20, Laurie incapacitates Michael Myers, and he's taken off in an ambulance. Knowing he'll just return probably after killing his way out of the hospital, and really just having had enough of his shit, Laurie grabs a fireaxe and hijacks the ambulance, leading eventually (as she expected) to him killing his way out, eventually there's a crash and she crushes him between the van and a tree. She walks up to him, he reaches out to her, and without a word she just swings the axe and slices his head clean off. The definitive, unambiguous end of Michael Myers.
The way you describe it makes it look really bad, which is to say I think you're being way too kind to it :p
That was actually the best, though. :(I'll start with Alien 3
"Yes, Ripley saved her friends and escaped the Alien infested planet but they all died off screen and now she's alone again in another planet with a loose Alien that somehow escaped with her"
Even the ones with Jamie Kennedy as Burt's son? Or when Burt is in the old west?
Those movies have one of the largest translation errors I've ever encountered.
I'll start with Alien 3
"Yes, Ripley saved her friends and escaped the Alien infested planet but they all died off screen and now she's alone again in another planet with a loose Alien that somehow escaped with her"
"Yes Yugi defeated the Pharaoh with his wit and strategy thus proving that he doesn't need ancient Egyptian magic to be the King of Games BUT this new enemy is like really hard and Yugi can barely touch him with his strategies until the Pharaoh comes back and one shots him with the Magical BS we were told wasn't needed anymore"
Fuck this movie, I can't believe GX was more respectful of this idea than Takahashi
"Yes Yugi defeated the Pharaoh with his wit and strategy thus proving that he doesn't need ancient Egyptian magic to be the King of Games BUT this new enemy is like really hard and Yugi can barely touch him with his strategies until the Pharaoh comes back and one shots him with the Magical BS we were told wasn't needed anymore"
Fuck this movie, I can't believe GX was more respectful of this idea than Takahashi
Yeah this kind of ruined toy story 4 for me. Or maybe not ruined but really cast it in a bad light. They could have found a better way to handle this than Bonnie neglecting woody.
