[16.06.23]

[facethestrange]

Day 2: What show or movie would you like rebooted? Same premise and storylines, but all new actors, showrunners, writers, technology, and social awareness?

I actually don't think I have one. I like my favorite shows as they are, and I'll happily re-watch them as they are. ♡ And in new shows I'll equally happily see new characters and stories. :) (Now, spin-offs and/or tv adaptations of other media? Count me in! :D)

Comments

[colls]

I've seen these meme going around and it looks fun!

[senmut]

I dunno. I look at One Day at a Time, and how it took the premise of a show I loved as a child and made it into something recognizable as its heir... with modern take and relevance. I think Sitcoms in general are more capable of doing this.

[author_by_night]

I think it's one way to do it well. They gave it a modern take, as you said, so it was a very different show. Also, that show got shafted big time. I really resent that. :(

[senmut]

They really did. I was not able to watch the last season that aired on that cable channel, and had to find descriptions.

[rogueslayer452]

I feel like reboots/remakes/revivals have long overstayed their welcome, almost everything has gotten something like that over the last two decades that it just feels like adding more to that pile is beating a dead horse. While I think some reboots can be good when done right, and some have succeeded in recent years, the majority of them just aren't. We really need to step back away from reboots and just focus on original stories. Not everything needs a reboot.

I agree though, that I don't mind spin-offs. I think we need more of that than straight up reboots/remakes, imho.

[author_by_night]

Yeah, I don't know why anyone wants a movie of things, honestly, because I feel like half the time you finally get a movie or a reboot, it misses the mark. Not always, I think The Conners is one exception (I've never seen it, and I never saw more than one or two episodes of Roseanne back in the day), but it's hard to match something people love.

Plus, there's always fanfic. ;)

I would love more spin-off and TV adaptations, though. See, that's the other thing, I think a movie for a show is hard because you have 1.5-2 hours to tell a story, rather than however many episodes, whereas a TV version could actually expand the story. Although those haven't necessarily been successful either? But I'm sure there are exceptions. Maybe that's where spinoffs come in, both for movies and for shows.

I'm actually watching Young Sheldon, which is a spinoff of The Big Bang Theory, but it's much more serious than TBBT. I don't really like TBBT - it's not for me. But I love Young Sheldon. Go figure.