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<blockquote data-quote="Zombie Aladdin" data-source="post: 149590" data-attributes="member: 4242"><p>The thing is that <em>Tales from the Crypt</em> has fallen so far off the mainstream that the people who stumble across episodes of it and such online wouldn't be large enough in number for it to be still in the consciousness of your John Q. Public. The only remnant of the show left on television, for instance, is "Blood of Bordello" that airs on some Halloween nights on Comedy Central. Without it being in production, nothing made except home video re-releases for the fans, or any sort of marketing approaching 20 years, it's not going to be publically relevant anymore. If a franchise needs to be "remembered," then it's no longer popular.</p><p></p><p>It's actually become <em>harder</em> for any one franchise to achieve mainstream popularity than before, if you ask me, and the Internet is the reason why. Whereas before, media would have large, general audiences because there wasn't much choice in what to read or watch, the proliferation of narrowcasted TV and the Internet in the late '90s have fragmented those general audiences into tiny, specialized chunks cut off from other tiny, specialized chunks.</p><p></p><p>And for the record, so far, I think the only licensed pinball machines on <em>The Pinball Arcade</em> to still be culturally relevant today are <em>Monster Bash</em> and with it <em>Creature from the Black Lagoon</em> (everyone can still recognize the Universal horror monsters, even if they're no longer taken seriously, and Universal Studios continues to use those characters) and <em>The Twilight Zone</em> (still airs occasionally on SyFy; "Twilight Zone" is still in popular use as a phrase to indicate an unusual circumstance or erratic behavior). <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation</em> still has semi-relevance (very recognizable, actors portraying main characters are still performing, albeit in totally unrelated roles, and it is currently showing on BBC America, but the Star Trek franchise has since moved to the J.J. Abrams movies, leaving TNG solely for the Trekkies), as is <em>Terminator 2</em> (<em>Salvation</em> was panned, and it underperformed at the box office, meaning the franchise has probably been put into cold storage).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zombie Aladdin, post: 149590, member: 4242"] The thing is that [i]Tales from the Crypt[/i] has fallen so far off the mainstream that the people who stumble across episodes of it and such online wouldn't be large enough in number for it to be still in the consciousness of your John Q. Public. The only remnant of the show left on television, for instance, is "Blood of Bordello" that airs on some Halloween nights on Comedy Central. Without it being in production, nothing made except home video re-releases for the fans, or any sort of marketing approaching 20 years, it's not going to be publically relevant anymore. If a franchise needs to be "remembered," then it's no longer popular. It's actually become [i]harder[/i] for any one franchise to achieve mainstream popularity than before, if you ask me, and the Internet is the reason why. Whereas before, media would have large, general audiences because there wasn't much choice in what to read or watch, the proliferation of narrowcasted TV and the Internet in the late '90s have fragmented those general audiences into tiny, specialized chunks cut off from other tiny, specialized chunks. And for the record, so far, I think the only licensed pinball machines on [i]The Pinball Arcade[/i] to still be culturally relevant today are [i]Monster Bash[/i] and with it [i]Creature from the Black Lagoon[/i] (everyone can still recognize the Universal horror monsters, even if they're no longer taken seriously, and Universal Studios continues to use those characters) and [i]The Twilight Zone[/i] (still airs occasionally on SyFy; "Twilight Zone" is still in popular use as a phrase to indicate an unusual circumstance or erratic behavior). [i]Star Trek: The Next Generation[/i] still has semi-relevance (very recognizable, actors portraying main characters are still performing, albeit in totally unrelated roles, and it is currently showing on BBC America, but the Star Trek franchise has since moved to the J.J. Abrams movies, leaving TNG solely for the Trekkies), as is [i]Terminator 2[/i] ([i]Salvation[/i] was panned, and it underperformed at the box office, meaning the franchise has probably been put into cold storage). [/QUOTE]
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