What would be your top 3 biggest entertainment blunders in the last 15 years that had they done it better it would've made a lot more money?
Obviously without saying, the virus that is DEI/obsession with representation has ruined a lot of stuff, but here are my top 3.
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Not having Luke training Jedi students as one of the opening scenes of episode (could have easily had Han/Luke/Leia and maybe Lando reunite at the beginning, also you could've had Rey be one of his top students and the other Jedi provide an outlet for future stories)
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Not doing an inspirational Superman movie with Henry Cavill (speaks for itself)
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Marvel deciding to follow the All-New All Different crap instead of years of better source material for their movies. Why not do a Kirby inspired F4 or the X-Men, Silver Sable, Black Cat, actual Defenders, etc. But of course it makes more sense to push characters who are self inserts whose comic books keep getting cancelled like how they are really pushing Ms. Marvel to be the face of the company. (I know the comic book industry has had issues in the past, but to constantly push crappy female characters or race swapped characters that nobody asked for as well as telling actual comic book fans to piss off is beyond insanity)
Honorable mention: letting some moron showrunner be in charge of Wheel of Time when he cares more about girl power/lgbt representation.
Not sure it cost them money but not having Jon Snow fight the Night King was dumb or at least him and Ayra fight him together.
Lucasfilm not continuing the EU in it's own continuity instead of telling a group of very loyal fans to piss off.
What are yours?
Regarding NGNL, I've always wondered if the source material sucks or flames out or something after the first season's worth of material. I've had the novels for a while but have yet to get around to reading them. Really hard to conceive of why they haven't continued it.
I remember when the movie came out back in like 2017 (how the fuck was that 6.5 years ago....) and momentarily revived the hype around the series. I was sure they'd follow it up with a season 2 within a year or two but no dice.
I've read the next story archs in the Light Novel, that could cover 2 13-ep seasons... It's solid. The fights against the other nation-states, the elaborate measures and plots, it's all done well enough to be a very well received anime.
One interesting thing is the Light Novel artwork has both Sora and Shiro as very different than the anime/manga. Those portray them as beautiful. But in the LN artwork, barring one or two one-off images, they've both got sunken zombie-like eyes, gaunt figures (that gets better as the series goes on), and both are always portraying not just the cockiness of the anime, but active disdain and disgust in almost every appearance. It made you empathize with Imanity, with Steph, that they're definitely not the images of leadership.
Kurami best girl.
Well that's good to hear. Maybe it will happen one day. The series hasn't really faded into obscurity yet despite no pulse on the anime front since the movie. The biggest obstacle to another season is probably the author being slow. They'd definitely want a couple books coming out close to a second season if possible so they could ride the wave for more book sales.
Sounds like standard anime tactics. Good looks are more of a draw. I was just thinking about this the other day with Kusuriya no Hitorigoto. The novel goes out of its way to describe Maomao as being relatively plain, and I think the LN illustrations do an okay job of portraying that, but the manga goes ahead and makes her breathtakingly gorgeous. On one hand I like faithful portrayals but it's hard to complain about the pretty depictions.
Great taste.