With the new Resident Evil in production it is important to recognize why the casting, production and writing for these shows/movies have fallen so far. This is due to the lie of “sharing a space” where the entertainment wants and needs are supposedly meant to attract fans and reach out to non fans alike. Shows that were created with this sentiment always end up trying to appease the potential market over the current one. I touched on this before with how small mediums like D&D peaked they hired staff who did not care for the source materials or worldbuilding but instead wanted a larger market. To achieve this they threw the fan base that built them into the trash and actively deposed them. The same is seen when video games, comics and books changed mediums. The first video game movie adaptations were god awful because they were trying to balance nods to the fan base that fell flat with non fans, and then pandered to non fans by corrupting the story's purity to something more appeasing. The only exception that I could think of (non-animated) was the original Mortal Kombat, which had more leeway than most video game stories tend to. We see these hybrid atrocities everywhere, the Witcher adaptation was painfully flat in writing, most superhero and zombie shows are just CW teen dramas, the bloating corpses of Marvel, Star Wars, and soon to be LOTR. This is the lie of the shared space, we end up with abominations in the skin of the stories we loved. It is the equivalent of someone who abhors violence running the UFC. When the product is changed to reach the most customers there is nothing that makes it unique or eye catching, we never needed or wanted marvel to become the McDonalds of superhero stories, we didn’t deserve “the force is female”, but we are expected to continue consuming lest the angry Twitter mob call us sexist or racist for not enjoying the smell of their shit.