Originally Posted by
Paulbot
There's a fundamental problem that any long running franchise seems to run into - the fans that don't want change, that want things to always stay the way they were. They want their hero to keep fighting the same villains - as was touched on before. Most shows (or comics too) would be better off with a fixed end point. Dragging them out just leads to these problems where stories can't reach end points and instead the characters have to keep acting out the same stories over and over. And in that environment you can't say "this is a set thing" because for the sake of keeping the show rolling nothing can be "set".
It'd be great to see a series of Doctor Who that didn't feature at all, in any way, a previously established alien race or character except the Doctor. No Daleks, Cybermen, UNIT, Master, Angels, Sontarans, Ice Warriors, Autons, etc etc. But how likely is that?
Transformers is just as bad as this. Even though they keep introducing new continuities, the same things (characters, events) keep getting retread over and over. Oh the new cartoon has Optimus Prime fighting Megatron? Yawn. The MTMTE series is doing something really interesting with Megatron, but if sales drop it could all be thrown out and we'll have "All Hail Megatron 2" staring the 80s cartoon Megatron again.
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