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My flair says it: franchise fatigue is a real signal. But I want to pressure test it. When I look at $SLSH against the legacy titles, chatter around long running franchises skews toward complaints, even when people keep buying tickets.
So is fatigue a box office reality, or just the internet being grumpy about things it will watch anyway?
Buy the dip guy reporting for duty. Grumpy chatter is priced in. Legacy franchises survive because the complaining is part of the ritual. Not advice.
Meta slasher fan here and I will defend this: people complain about $SCRM every cycle and then argue about it for weeks. Arguing is engagement. Heat does not care if you are annoyed.
Heat does not care if you are annoyed
No, but sentiment does, and sentiment is where fatigue shows up first. Loud and sour is not the same as loud and excited.
The Index page lets you split these. On my read, legacy titles run hot on heat and cooler on sentiment compared to originals. Whether that turns into tickets is the whole debate.
From a writing angle, fatigue is usually a story problem. The sequels that work find a new question. The ones that feel tired are just asking the old question louder.
Okay, updating my thesis: fatigue is real in sentiment, murkier in tickets, and mostly a story problem. Still short, just less smug about it.
That is the most honest short thesis I have seen on here. Respect.
Friendly reminder since this thread will attract the franchise diehards: keep spoilers tagged for anything recent, and keep it about the films.
Tags on, knives sheathed.