Re: end of Dilbert

On 2026-01-16 11:38:51 +0000, The True Melissa said:
> Verily, in article <[email protected]>, did
> [email protected] deliver unto us this message:
>> 
>> Dilbert's last 20 years of strips wasn't that good;
>> it's the period of around 1995 - 1999 that are gold!
> 
> That's completely normal for comics. My father once told me that Blondie
> was funny when it started out; I was startled. I once read some very old
> Family Circus comics, and it was a very different strip in which their
> neglectful father drank a lot and ogled hotties while the kids did some
> genuinely bad things.
> 
> I respect the creator of Calvin and Hobbes for ending it before it began
> to stink.

It's the "American way" to keep churning something out until everybody 
is thoroughly sick of it and not bothering to watch / read / listen to 
it (and then make some more just to make sure) ... just look at The 
Simpsons.  :-\

Then there's the UK comedy "Ghosts" which ran for 5 seasons, 34 
episodes in total before the makers chose to end it. The US decided to 
copy it, but the US version has been renewed for a sixth season and 
already has 82 episodes.

Also the numerous spin-off of shows like Stargate, Star Trek, NCIS, Law 
& Order, etc.

If Star Wars had been a UK project, it probaly would have ended with 
the Original Trilogy. Because it's a US project, it has had two more 
trilogies and lots of spin-off movies and TV shows, with more planned 
(including yet another trilogy "continuing the story after Episode IX", 
despite saying that was the end of the Saga).