The new Wonder Years
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This could be good if they don't get too preachy.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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Fuck reboots. Sorry, drawing a hard line there. I'll watch something like Foundation but that's as far as I'll go with recycled material.
Please love yourself.
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@aqua-letifer said in The new Wonder Years:
I'll watch something like Foundation but that's as far as I'll go with recycled material.
That's not really a reboot - it's an adaptation.
Star Trek, Batman, and others were "rebooted" (probably so they could dispense with the fanboi 'canon' that's all over the inter web).
"Gone With the Wind" wasn't a reboot either.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in The new Wonder Years:
@aqua-letifer said in The new Wonder Years:
I'll watch something like Foundation but that's as far as I'll go with recycled material.
That's not really a reboot - it's an adaptation.
Star Trek, Batman, and others were "rebooted" (probably so they could dispense with the fanboi 'canon' that's all over the inter web).
"Gone With the Wind" wasn't a reboot either.
The fuck it wasn't. Get a new idea or at the very least, take an existing thing from another medium and be the first to try it in yours. Otherwise get the hell away from me.
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I am skeptical. The original had such a deft touch . . . not saying it can't be duplicated, but it seems unlikely.
I doubt I'll have TV by then, but if I do and I pick up any hint that the new show is battening on the old one's title to boost ratings and otherwise not much similarity to the old one, I'll be gone like a shot.
I wish it well, though.
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@mik said in The new Wonder Years:
This could be good if they don't get too preachy.
In other words, “this is going to suck donkey balls”.
80% of the supposed differences between blacks and whites and their experiences aren’t real. Thise differences were really between economic levels.
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@aqua-letifer said in The new Wonder Years:
"Gone With the Wind" wasn't a reboot either.
The fuck it wasn't. Get a new idea or at the very least, take an existing thing from another medium and be the first to try it in yours.
In my world, a "reboot" is a complete restart of the original story. That's what the Abrams versions of Star Trek did. They re-started the story with a new beginning, discarding everything that people had accepted as "canon" for the last 45 years.
"Gone With the Wind," "South Pacific," West Side Story," "Unbroken," "My Fair Lady," and (ahem) "Altered Carbon" are not "reboots." They are adaptations of the pre-existing authors' works in a different medium. They don't aim to RE-tell the story. They aim to tell the same story in a different medium.
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@xenon said in The new Wonder Years:
If they’re honest about this - it should actually paint a pretty stark picture that we’ve come a huge way in the last 50 years on racism.
Even better would be if the viewers didn't think about race at all. Like the old Cosby Show. Just tells a story and nobody thinks about skin color one way or the other.
Well, except for Horace of course; he'll be bound to be writhing in, I don't know, agony or ecstasy.
