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Originally Posted by drobertbaker

What went wrong? Well, a number of things went wrong.

First of all the timing. A big part of the excitement of the original series was the inter-episode action: trying to figure out and interpret everything that happened in the previous episode and speculate on what would happen in the next one. A week was the right interval for this. When there were so many months between the series and the movies, no one remembered who the characters were, what their relationships were, what each was trying to accomplish, or why. The movie viewer was immediately lost and bewildered, and quickly no longer even interested.

Secondly, the concepts that were so fresh and exciting initially, were stale and boring a year later, like last year's fashions. Cell phone full of money, amnesia, life-and-death game, cruise missiles, ho hum, did that, what else you got?

Jeez, are the viewers goldfish to have such a fleeding memory?