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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of those crappy trilogies were not written all at once the way LOTR was. The more common case of writing follow-ups to cash in on the popularity of the original is a time-honoured way to make money while producing derivative garbage.

I feel like we need a different word to separate those “cash grab” trilogies from proper multi-part stories like LOTR.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's a good point. I'm endlessly fascinated the Back to the Future was not a planned trilogy. I always assumed it was well into adulthood.