In the series's defence, I think they reinvented the whole thing brilliantly. Car racing is fun, but there's only so much that can be developed around the premise. There was a huge demand for more from the family and the only way that could be done was by taking different routes.

In the case of superhero movies, sustaining the base tone of the movies is fine because there's a rich history of villain characters to fall back to (most of them were developed over decades). But for a franchisee like FF to survive, the only way was to tread different paths while not banning fast cars altogether. I think they did it well. In my humble opinion.

Thanks for writing, it's so good to make this a dialogue rather than a monologue. :-)