The other day when I was at the grocery store checkout I noticed my cashier had had a lot of Flash gear on and I asked her about it and she went on about how much she loved the Flash and then I asked her if she ever read any of his comic books and she looked at me like I had said the most offensive thing and said no.
Obviously people are free to like what they like and you do need normies to make money. Normie isn't a bad thing as I am a normie in some areas (I mentioned before that I am working my out out of normie status with Anime/Manga). I guess my annoyance is that the people who act like experts about the MCU for instance are the same people who wouldn't have been caught dead reading a comic book or the same people who clap like seals with every "reimagined" butchering of source material. I don't know how many people I've seen in comments section saying that it doesn't matter that Halo/Wheel of Time/LOTR doesn't follow the lore.
I get that casual fans bring in money but in a perfect world shouldn't the people who are in charge of the IPs appreciate the more hardcore fans who actually read the source material. Like Amazon should've taken into account the people who actually read WOT before hiring a douchebag who didn't care or maybe Marvel shouldn't hire showrunners who openly admit to never reading comic books. I get if you have never been into them but if you get a job to direct a show based on a comic book character shouldn't you at least do some research?
As a life long Star Wars fan one of the worst examples is Disney erasing the EU. I get that they wanted to do their own thing but the least they could've done was continue making stories in that universe along with their own as a tip of the cap to the fans who kept Star Wars going by reading books/comics or playing the video games when there were no movies. Or maybe they could've done Clone Wars style animation of some of the better stories. It does make me chuckle to see how Disney will keep re-releasing the EU books because they make money.
Sorry for the long post, rant over.
There’s been a major push for what I like to call intellectual obsolescence. Something interesting and unique is created and in less that 5 years it has become a corrupted mess with no charm or appeal because it is just pandering in the original characters skinsuits. We saw this since the push around 2009. Marvel, GoT, Star Wars, ESPN, DC, Witcher, etc. it is easier to buy a franchise that is proven successful and make intellectual obsolescence to where they can mass produce crap and there’s a guaranteed fan base because everything is crap.
I guess that definitely explains the MCU. I remember marvel now comics didn’t sell but since they pushed the right messages of course Disney would adapt that. Or She-Hulk. Instead of adapting the successful John Byrne run they pander to this massive audience of comic book reading females they think are out there. Disney there are plenty of soaps and drama shows that women love. No need to buy the IP of male dominated hobbies
ESPN was/ is the worst offender in my opinion. They managed to make sports completely unappealing to men. Even UFC is now becoming WWF because of ESPN.
I used to watch a lot of espn shows til it became msnbc. I’ve been a WWF fan since I was little but am also a UFC fan. If womens spirts are good people will watch. You can’t force ppl to be interested
Which is why most female fights are the piss break usually. No one really cares about women fights which is why female “fighters” tend to have onlyfans.