Sir, – Tara Brady, (The Ticket, April 3rd) reviewing the seventh film in the Fast and the Furious series, suggests that the franchise is suffering from sequelitis.
This word has recently entered the lexicon defined as the tendency of an initially well received work to spawn many inferior sequels.
May I suggest sequelosis, a condition brought about by a pathological proliferation of sequels? Sequelitis literally means one’s sequel is inflamed. – Yours, etc, R McDERMOTT Rathgar, Dublin 6.