We haven’t been inundated with sequels, spinoffs, animated series, and network reboots in the years since Top Gun (1986). Undoubtedly, one of the chief reasons Top Gun: Maverick has proven to be such a stellar success story since launching over Memorial Day weekend is that it isn’t Top Gun 5. Even the unshakable MCU has faced its share of post- Endgame (2019) growing pains, as Marvel challenges audience expectations with projects such as Eternals. We’ve seen it happen time and time again with Terminator, Fast and Furious, The Wizarding World and Transformers. And we’ve seen attempts to swing the needle back the other way and balance the new and the old, with The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and Jurassic World Dominion, films that left many fans frustrated.Įxpectations become harder to manage the longer a franchise runs. We’ve seen the argument of the “overly” familiar with Jurassic World (2015) and The Force Awakens (2015), and the ”excessively” off-brand with The Last Jedi (2017) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). Overly familiar sequels have a hard time justifying their existence, yet a sequel that seemingly strays too far from the original is oft-regarded as something that shouldn’t be canon. ![]() At the same time, audiences crave familiarity, to be reminded of how they felt watching that first entry.
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