You said the same character, but "the things they do and the character itself is different". So in the Harry Potter example, there's a reboot and he goes to Hogwarts where he is extremely badass, everyone likes him but he secretly works with Voldemort.CaptainMarvelous said:
This is what comics occasionally do. And I don't see how that's a good thing. A lot of the time, they seem to either push a different comic into an existing IP, or stretch an IP that has clearly run its course to weird places.
PS I don't like HP, so let's not argue whether or not these were good books.
I was talking "drama" in the sense of something being at stake. No matter how bored I was throughout the movie, when the Alien Armada entered NY airspace I did think: well, let's see how they gonna deal with this. And then I learned. Unleash the Hulk. That easy. He was like the ghost army in LotR.
Comic relief. Did it ever threaten the mission or Thor?
So I'm supposed to make up my own threat scenario that the movie didn't bother with? Sure, if you work hard enough, you can make every movie good by filling the voids yourself. Like in Matrix Reloaded, which gets really intense if you think of all the things Agent Smith could be doing to Neo.
See, I didn't get that either. They seemed to have each other's backs.
but then surely you couldn't have enjoyed LotR which did the exact same thing and with even less of something at stake (except maybe equal rights for Orcs as an ethnic minority). Or in Star Wars where they resolve the problems of Stormtroopers attacking by getting Ewoks to kill them. Which apparently is a thing that works.
