Originally Posted by
Güicho
Cause you have a comparable franchise with "real time" ongoing comics, books, cartoons, tv shows, movies, games, where the lead has aged and/or died and passed on the legacy, that has sold longer, and is more popular?
If you do just name it?
Anyone name it.
We can look at it as proof of longer working model.
One that sells more.
Soap-Operas are great examples, although I'm not familiar with any, which has been the longest running one, how long?
Trek was a great example, although they've fallen back to reboots, and now instead of new legacy, going back to Picard.
Young Anakin(prequel) and Rey, are great starts, although not nearly as long not yet, we'll know it's staying power, when the next gens. moved away from Luke & Leia (who wil no longer be a presence), and just solos the new Legacy and/or prequel characters.
Bond uses sliding time scale.
Dr. Who has the lead character regenerate through a sliding time-scale.
Right now our more successful and longest running popular franchises, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, use sliding time scale, moving the lead character forward, not real time.
And most successful comic characters have followed this model. Marvel: Spider-Man, etc...
Unless I'm missing a "real time" franchise, where the original character is dead or aged, and replaced by legacy, that has been more successful, just name it!?
And we we'll take it as better working model.
Otherwise, we know what works, sliding time scale, it's why these comic characters, have the staying power they do.
"Real time" and the fans clamoring for it, would have long ago tanked or ended the industry, and all the huge successful franchises built on it's "sliding-time" scale.