Pet peeves (beware some RotE spoilers)

[Farseer]

I truly dislike it when second and third instalments of movies ignore major events and outcomes from the original eg the characters have grown in the first but, in the second, they are all young again. It happens to a ridiculous point in children's animated movies. Children aren't stupid.

As a specific example: they know that by the end of Cinderella that Cinderella and the Prince marry and Cinderella's step-mother and step-sisters are thwarted. They also know that by the end of Cinderella II that Anastasia (one of the ugly step-sisters) ends up in love with a baker, much to her mother's disgust. In fact, the entire second instalment was based on this desire of Anastasia's to be married by the man of her choice. Why, oh why, then do they bother to make Cinderella III that has the step-mother and step-sisters turn back time and have the Prince fall in love with Anastasia because Anastasia has a strong desire to have someone love her, like the Prince loved Cinderella?! It's like the second and third instalments share the same goal but they've written two different scripts to find Anastasia a love, despite the fact that she was happily in love with her baker after number two!

What I am not talking about here is movies such as Star Wars that follow chronologically but that are just released at different times. I am talking about movies that are released as a sequel or number two, three or four of an original but that don't follow on chronologically from the original. If you want to add a couple of extra movies after the original, release them as Cinderella: Turn Back Time or Cinderella: Love for Anastasia or something.