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?
1)As far as entertainment goes, Star Wars is probably got to be the biggest blunder of the decade, possibly in the history of Cinema. While it was technically financially profitable, a complete money printing franchise was reduced to b movies on a streaming service. not to mention a franchise that once elicited emotions ranging from indifference to absolute love now elicits absolute hate to indifference.
2)Destiny is another big one that comes to mind. that game single-handedly made a games budget go from an advertising feature to something to hide. not to mention being a defining exercise in what happens when you overhype a piece of media.
3)Lastly there's Mass Effect. there were many ways to end that trilogy but ending it in a way that completely ties up the entire galaxy was a colossal mistake, ending overhype aside. Even upon launch of Mass effect 3 that franchise was growing like hotcakes and probably set to become the next Star Trek. however it was the franchise that also was one of the first to feel the wrath of social media era backlash due to the crappy marketing and last minute rewrites, and it will never recover. not to mention I do actually believe that it contributed heavily to gamergate, it being one of the first gamers rise up moments I could think of in the social media era. without the Mass effect ending to focus so many people's attention on e-drama, I doubt gamergate would have even gotten noticed.