Now that some have suggested that this is the last Jedi of the matrix, I can’t help but get mad. I turned it on for a second watch but once it cut to keanu tapping on his keyboard, I turned it off and started watching the original.
I have this conspiracy after watching Netflix Cowboy Bebop. I was about halfway through that series and was realizing that it’s almost not worth watching and rewatching the anime would be a better use of my time. And lo and behold, it is a recommended title next to the live action, to which you might say “duh, obviously”. But it sparked a thought, what if the reboot isn’t about making a good end product necessarily, because they don’t care. If the reboot is bad, you’d naturally end up rewatching the original which happens to be on Netflix, they win. If the reboot is good, that might just be a happy accident, they win. As far as streaming goes, if they own streaming right to old material then they can’t lose.