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What’s new is old, again

In a world of unending remakes we seem to love nostalgia Game of Thrones XXIIX, Sound & Fury Returns (for the 20th time), Star Wars 112 at theaters this summer. And so it goes, the unending replays, remakes, and redos. The baby boomers and their unimaginative gen-something kids living in fear of a world moving too fast and becoming too ...

Jon Peddie

In a world of unending remakes we seem to love nostalgia Game of Thrones XXIIX, Sound & Fury Returns (for the 20th time), Star Wars 112 at theaters this summer. And so it goes, the unending replays, remakes, and redos. The baby boomers and their unimaginative gen-something kids living in fear of a world moving too fast and becoming too complicated yearn for a simpler time, when pixels were big clunky things and when you killed a zombie it stayed dead (even that’s redundant). And a brand, once revered, will never go away. It may get sold a few times,
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