Video Games
(the same, the lame, :the game:)
Web Comics
I hate when they change stuff in comics. The only thing worse is when they keep stuff the same for too long.
Web Original
Enterprise became welfare for former Star Trek actors. I'm not saying LeVar Burton or Robert Duncan McNeill or Roxann Dawson are bad directors (though they all directed their fair share of bombs), but to turn around the ratings decline, Enterprise had to be new and different. By continuing to employ people who had spent their entire careers within the Star Trek bubble, Berman and Braga pretty much guaranteed that Enterprise was going to be more of the same. You can't reinvigorate the franchise when 99% of the same people are still in charge.
Seeing as EA copy and pasted last year’s FIFA onto Switch again this year – once again saying it has the same gameplay "without any new development or significant enhancements" on its store page for the full price of $49.99/£44.99 – I’ve decided to do the same and copy and paste my review of FIFA 20 on Switch below as my review of FIFA 21.
When a movie series lasts as long as this one has, you sort of get a sense of déjà vu since the producers are bound to reuse some ideas along the way. With this particular movie, we get an epic battle between two pokemon (Deoxys vs. Rayquaza) in an alternate universe ruled by the Unown (Entei) who can only be stopped by a song (Lugia), a fact relayed to us by a number of flashbacks dispersed throughout the movie (Lucario). Oh, and I can't forget about the three trainers who only exist to show off the starters' evolved forms (Myuutwo), a forced romance that really doesn't play out until the end (Jirachi), pokemon-to-human transformation (Latios and Latias), and an ending that requires Satoshi to solve some puzzle in order to save the day (Manaphy).
I'm sure some of that is meant to be a sort of "homage" to the franchise's ten-year history, but at the same time it just feels really lazy. That's not to say that the movie isn't entertaining (because it is). It's just that the whole thing has this "been there, done that" feeling to it.
I'm sure some of that is meant to be a sort of "homage" to the franchise's ten-year history, but at the same time it just feels really lazy. That's not to say that the movie isn't entertaining (because it is). It's just that the whole thing has this "been there, done that" feeling to it.
— Dogasu on
Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai.
Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai.Web Video
"This is the tipping point where people are just saying, 'Enough is enough. Give us effort again, give us energy, give us something that feels fresh and new, similar to the first surreal time that we've ever encountered you'."
"The first Transformers probably required a little bit of thought, don't get me wrong. Because, we never really saw that before. We never saw robots fighting each other on top of buildings, and yeah now they're fucking everywhere, but before it was kind of new. And we couldn't wait to see what the next one was gonna be because you know what the first one had...a fight in the desert, a fight in the city, it had the transformers music it was unbelievable. You know what the second one had? A fucking fight in the desert, yeah we saw that. You know what the third one had? A fucking fight in the city, yeah we saw that. You know what the fourth one had? A FIGHT IN THE FUCKING CITY! WE JUST SAW THAT IN THREE GOD-DAMN MOVIES!!!!!
— The Nostalgia Critic on Transformers: Age of Extinction
"Nickelodeon has an issue with...some would call it relying on the same people and products over and over again. But I'm just gonna call it what it is; it's creative inbreeding. That's the only way to describe the later Dan Schneider shows, the middle Spongebob seasons, or the later Butch Hartman shows. Their jokes and stories and shit are regurgitated and put back together in disgusting new ways."
— The Mysterious Mr. Enter on Nickelodeon's use of this trope in some of its most recent productions
"The broad strokes are all the same, and it was a bit disappointing to me, because I just felt like I had played all of this before but slightly better two years ago. That's not to say that the story isn't executed well in Miles, but it's a story I've already seen, and it was so much more predictable because of that, and harder to gravitate to emotionally."
"Oh, at least the prequels had some original ideas. Who the fuck says shit like this? Original ideas aren't enough to make a movie good! And something can still be good without any original ideas! Stranger Things doesn't have any original ideas at all and it's generally seen as pretty good! Everybody likes it! The prequels have a lot of unique ideas, yeah, and they aren't presented in a good way at all in these movies."
The Cosmonaut Variety Hour defying the argument made by this trope in his review, Every Star Wars Movie Reviewed - Pt. 2 - The Prequels
Real Life
"I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney."
—Ralph Bakshi's thoughts on Don Bluth
"The commercial for Diet Dr. Pepper says it tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper. Well, then they fucked up!"
