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Mr.Movie Since: Feb, 2014
#1: Jun 20th 2014 at 11:19:52 AM

Seasonal Rot and Sequelitis are both tropes that deal with a franchise getting bad and/or worse as time goes on, but they have trouble differentiating themselves, as some examples are in both tropes. Here are my thoughts:

Seasonal Rot (both the description and name) seems to imply that it is about TV shows, which I think could be extended to other franchises based around short, numerous segments (I.e. comic strips, comic issues, You Tube videos, manga chapters, episodes of a TV show) than chunky installments (I.e. books or films).

While Sequelitis's description all but says it is for movies only, I feel that the spirit of "The next one sucks. The original was better." that Sequelitis has is present in book series and video games (to name two mediums) as well, and the trope's list of possible reasons for additional installments failing mostly consists of universal reasons that don't apply exclusively to film.

I am in no mood to rename anything, nor do I think that there is a reason to. In short, I think that Seasonal Rot should be for works built around short segments only, and that Sequelitis should be for franchises with chunky installments, as well as Sequel Series. For example, the Terminator movie franchise and Star Trek Deep Space Nine (in relation to TOS and TNG) would be Sequelitis while Pokemon and Naruto would go in Seasonal Rot.

To put this into practice, I think that the film, video game, and literature examples from Seasonal Rot should be taken out and put in Sequelitis, while Sequelitis should be combed appropriately as well.

After that, we tweak the descriptions so that Sequelitis is about franchises based around chunky installments while Seasonal Rot is about franchises with short segments.

My solution ensures that Seasonal Rot and Sequelitis are significantly different from each other with no overlapping examples, and we don't have to rename anything and only have to change the descriptions slightly. Is this good and okay?

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#2: Jun 20th 2014 at 12:44:20 PM

They are both honeypots for the kind of bitching and whining we really don't want. I suppose making them more sticky makes sense. However annoying having to waste time on them may be.

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