I’d like to take a moment to talk to you today about sequel escalation.  In general, this is when the next movie in a series has an even worse bad guy than the previous one.

(This is not limited to only movies though)

I was thinking about this as I watched the Fast and Furious franchise, although this also happens in the new Bond films.  I know that it is in someways inevitable; after all, if the new bad guy was easier to defeat, that would make for a bit of a dull movie, right?  But that is in some ways the problem.  There can only be so many international terrorists and criminal masterminds.  Once you get rid of one of them, a new one does not magically appear.

There has to be some kind of limit here.

But that never seems to happen.

Anyway, just some random thoughts.