I thought it was interesting when Jenkins said that "the old Hollywood system depended on redundancy to ensure that viewers could follow the plot at all times, while the new Hollywood system demands that we keep our eyes on the road at all times, and that we do research before we arrive at the theater." This seems to be good news for society. Maybe it means we aren't getting closer to a world like the movie "Idiocracy," where everyone is dumbed-down.
Is Jenkins saying that this multiple media convergence is the best way to create films? He says, "for the casual consumer, The Matrix asked too much. For the hard-core fan, it provided too little." Is there a film franchise that did it correctly in the middle?
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