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The panel laments — Hollywood abandoned theatrical storytelling for quick profit via franchise fatigue, remakes, and woke narratives. Simultaneously, the streaming revolution, heralded as the salvation of content, instead accelerated the decline as it led to binge culture, filler episodes, and lowbrow quick hits, eroding quality and originality.
They recall that 2007-2008 was an extraordinary window of creative ingenuity, with multiple Oscar-winning films, groundbreaking TV, and a thriving gaming industry. After this peak, mainstream media showed a marked decline, with fewer classics, and more mediocrity.