Everything milked nowadays for money?

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Seriously - do you ever feel like every good franchise or band falls prey to over production?

Assuming the production staff and the cast isn't even trying anymore. Seasonal rot can do that to a show and the people who make it.
The Simpson's is a prime example. Just look at this.

Julie Kavner didn't even try to make a decent reaction and the studio didn't even try to do a retake.

Too funny.

She was in the Stephen King movie, Maximum Overdrive. The one AC/DC did the music to, with The Green Goblin truck.

the more that mediocre people become fans of any product, the easier it is for the manufacturers of that product to get away with diluting every aspect of it before they start to lose market share.
it is a shame. long before the standard masses become displeased at the quality of a product, i have been repulsed by it's degradation.

herbert adams pies were once extremely crispy and flaky and light (crusts) filled with delicious meat in a tasty gravy and they were a pleasure to eat, but over time, as they became more popular with average people, the ingredients changed so that butter was replaced by margarine and then by hydrolysed vegetable protein and the meat became sparse and grisly and the gravy was thickened with cornstarch to mask the emptiness of the filling, and the whole thing went to the dogs but they are still popular with mums and dads who are "in a hurry and not fussy". one sale less from me is meaningless against their reduced costs spread over the economy of scale of their easily satisfied customers.

everything is the same. stereo fidelity is crap compared to what it could be because people are happy with just listening to something they can clearly hear rather than thinking about timbres and other qualities.

all cars are the same because it is a well researched recipe that every manufacturer adheres to with only slight modifications to shell design to mark themselves as different.

funeral insurance appeals to so many people who care and respond to the ads, that the ads proliferate. they clog up my time and frustrate me because i am so disinterested in them it is infuriating to have them thrust in my face all the time.

fat remedies like snake oil. everyone chasing some ideal of appearance and throwing their money relentlessly at fads and slick hollywood gimmicks spruiked by buffed people who never made the big time (but have that personality anyway) or spruiked by faded hollywodd stars like jane fonda who is scratching for a buck with a grizzled old face
that can no longer get roles but for bit parts in ads where she has to state she is old (and looks younger) in order to justify her presentation of the product, or whatever stuff they engage in over there, but it has a firm place in our cable networks because the people in the crowd listen and spend their money.

bugger people like me who are tearing their hair out waiting for the ad break to be over (when i am in bed and watching tv).

they never got a cent from me but they got my time and that is worth more than my money so i feel even more ripped off.

It seems this is a rising problem not just milking for more money, its also that the majority of people like tv shows where plots or the storyline is simple.

When I think about the Sci−Fi genre there is nowhere close to the the quality and depth as earlier sci-fi shows where at the end of the 90s's and early 2000's like stargate sg-1, Atlantis and Star Trek Enterprise ect. Today is just the total lack of character development and good storyline.

This is likely because Hollywood won't allow for anything original to get the greenlight.

The Resident Evil series by Capcom is extremely profitable for them, hence why it gets milked like heck.

The franchise as you know started life as predominantly a 'survival horror' game. It was to become an icon of the genre and a lot of similar games by rival companies had been released to also make money off of its popularity at the time. However, as the series grew older and appetites changed, the series basically became Call of Duty with horror elements, and then the term Action Horror was more or less coined by the fans.

Resident Evil 4 was so unlike the games before it, but at the time, nobody really cared. Shooting everything in sight was more fun than ever, and you could sell treasures to the creepy merchant and unload on the monks and monsters some more. It was new and very excellent, but a horror game it certainly was not. Well, not really anyway. Then RE 5 strayed even further from the formula of old. To me, it felt like Sheva was just a "filler" character for Jill Valentine, even if yes, Jill was a supporting character in RE 5 and later playable in the DLC extras. And Wesker was just so unlike the Wesker I grew up with, like in the days of the RE remake, Code: Veronica and The Umbrella Chronicles. If they were going to face him and kill him, they should have at least brought back Barry and maybe had Leon in it as well. It just seemed like a wasted opportunity.

RE 6 is a game I wanted to love, but the game-play each year just seems to get more horrible. The older games also got criticized over the tank like controls, but at least they were something you got used to. Now you have interactive cut-scenes and all this stuff.

By the way, who here likes the movies with Alice?

Jory doesn't then!