You and I have seen a lot of resurrections the last few years. It's not the kind where actually people who are dead come back to life, but like fiction on screen resurrections, especially over the last decade or so

since we ran out of all the ideas that existed that could work for storytelling.

I think what's happened is, one, we've exhausted a lot of creative ideas and two,

the constraints we're putting on ourselves in terms of what story could all of planet Earth

with all of their different religious sensibilities like, well,

none.

So it really limits what you can actually do or what themes you can tap into.

And so, resultantly, I think you can, I would agree that we've seen a whole lot of

retreads and rehashing and pulling old characters out of mothballs characters

who had a really good story arc and went all the way through that story arc and then

maybe the story arc ended the way everybody's story arc and went all the way through that story arc and then maybe the story arc ended the way everybody's story arc does, which is with dying.

But, oh no, there was time travel, there's magic space wizard, the wizard did space magic, and then the time, and then they came back and now they're back, and now they have a new quest.

And the new quest is, of course, slavishly crammed into whatever the immutable ethics du jour are this week.

Then the whole thing adds up to these resurrections we keep seeing, these characters brought

back from the beyond.

It just makes them really unsatisfying,

and it also very much builds up this emotional immunity

to the idea of a beloved character coming back to life.

It's more of a hold your breath and then how are they going to ruin it this time around?

Kind of a response that we're conditioned to have now.

And I think because we're in this weird little

moment of storytelling where we don't really have new ideas and we are doing these

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