Hawaii Five-0
Magnum P.I.
Doogie Howser
Fantasy Island
Punky Brewster
Saved by the Bell
The Wonder Year
Party of 5
Melrose Place
90210
Gossip Girl
Charmed
All of those have been rebooted. Give it a rest already. It's lazy.
still waiting for the Cosby show to be rebooted with a white family.
Melrose was rebooted? must have missed that one...
I don't get Wonder Years in particular. We are constantly told black people have had it so bad forever, harassed by police who target them and seek them out every day to kill them, victims of unending systemic racism. But they now have their 'wonder' years?
shareNot all people have the same experience, and clearly this story will be the case. I'm sure we'll see some of the systemic racism that has plagued the US in the show, especially in an era of the civil rights movement.
shareThis show takes place in Alabama, right?
shareDon't know, but if it does it will definitely tackle some hard subjects and truths that people want to believe never happened or still don't.
Spoiler alert: people suck.
Good God! All we do is talk about those subjects and 'truths'. According to them there were no 'wonder' years for them. They were under constant attack until just last year when BLM rose up to loot the Target stores in protest.
It's like they want to take every white success and make it black and then act like they are so clever. It's just lazy. They can't come up with their own shows.
Oh, shut the hell up, troll. Shows get rebooted literally all the damn time. You're only whining about this one because it was rebooted with a black family. There's always some whiny racist idiot like you on here to whine about a show if it's about black people, even if you haven't seen it yet. Nobody is making you watch it, so why complain about something you're not ever going to watch? Guess what? White people are not the only damn people on earth with stories to tell about themselves. And stop acting like all BLM did was loot and riot----they were protesting about police brutality against lack people, which is still going the hell on---it wasn't their damn fault rioting thugs took advantage of their protests, and used that as an excuse to start some damn riots. You know damn well that's not true, so stfu about it.
shareExactly.They aren't rebooted for no other reason than to have black people take the roles. You are correct. And it's absolutely lazy. And crazy. You would think they would want to create their own shows. Right?
Like it or not, white people did invent most of these things. That's why a lot of these shows featured, you guessed it, white people. Go figure! That's why Gone with the Wind starred, YES, white people. The Wonder Years. Happy Days. Cheers. Should white people have given all those roles to black people? Of course not.
And BLM is a terrorist organization. They did BILLIONS in damage they should be held accountable for, not including the lives lost and ruined. I didn't see any of you mind when BLM members took a 2x4 to the head of a female store owner just trying to protect her store from their vandalizing.
And MOST of the people killed by black people are by other black people. Get that straight. Not by cops. Not by white people. Not by Michael Myers, either. But black people. By well over 90%.
It's more likely for a cop to be killed by a black person than the reverse.
They alienate the fans of the original shows by being like "this is not YOUR this & that". Trying to reboot it for the current generation & all that. Trying to pander to today's audiences & mostly ignoring the built-in fan base
But the thing is, current audiences (no matter the era) usually doesn't really give a f*ck about any of those old ass shows. That's why most reboots don't last long.
Why not just pander to the people who actually liked the show when trying a new reboot? You literally have an existing fan base
P.S. This is not aimed towards any particular show. I'm just generalizing.
I think they try to gain a new audience while using the name of the show as the hook. It's almost like buying a brand of clothing which may be mediocre, but you might get because of the name.
shareYeah, and the reason most of them fail is cause the old fans don't like all the changes to even give it a chance. It's too new & too different. And the new audience just doesn't care enough about the projects to stay for the long term (or even the short term)
I think Disney & Game manufacturers have figured out the "winning formula". Remake & repackage the exact same product & sell it, again
Old audiences would gladly buy into it cause... Nostalgia & new audiences wanna experience it for the first time. I'm not saying that's the right way but it's definitely working for them. The lifeless, soulless remake of The Lion King made 1.6 billion at the box office.
Nostalgia, it's one helluva drug
Lazy is as lazy does.
shareEven in the 1980s-1990s (the time period for the original WY) they already did this,with varying degrees of success or failure to
The Brady Bunch
Felix the Cat
The Mickey Mouse Club
Batman
Superman
Beany and Cecil
Tasmanian Devil
Tweety.Sylvester
Tom and Jerry
Mighty Mouse
...and half of the above were revivals of 1950s-60s TV revivals of theatrical cartoons..some huge hits,others huge misses..
They've done a lot even in the 70s-90s..
90210 Melrose Place and Punky Brewster already were canceled.
I didn't hear about Punky Brewster being cancelled.
sharehttps://deadline.com/2021/08/punky-brewster-canceled-peacock-one-season-1234818510/
shareGood. I hope they keep cancelling things like this.
shareFuller House
The Connors
Cobra Kai