WOTD: Sequelitis

I've come to realise that I suffer from a chronic problem, which happens to be the word of the day for Friday, August 5, 2005, and can only be described as:

sequelitis
n.

1. A condition whereby the mind automatically and uncontrollably begins designing sequels for products which have only just been conceived and will likely never even be completed: “So, then in Zlarbog II (Fromhoob's Revenge), Zlarbog returns from the...”, “Err... dude, have you even finished designing Zlarbog I? I think you have... sequelitis!”


2. The tendency for the creators (or worse, the distributors who retained copyright to the franchise after a lengthy and brutal court settlement) of a film decide to cash in and sequel it up, which inevitably earns millions of dollars despite very awful filmage.


3. A rare condition which Zlarbog contracted in his second adventure, during his visit to the planet Morhoar, to capture the stolen....