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Post by Tim on Jun 26, 2020 11:15:42 GMT -5
Esprit?
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Post by Katie on Jun 27, 2020 17:59:43 GMT -5
Yeah, it would be nice to enter this new decade with some new blood. I mean, with COVID-19, surely writers have so much free time, to think of new ideas, but I doubt it.
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Post by Tim on Jun 27, 2020 18:02:32 GMT -5
As long as it's not anything from Plec. Ugh, make her go away.
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Post by Trinity on Jun 27, 2020 20:58:19 GMT -5
Yeah, it is beyond their talents it seems. Writers need to go back to writing school, and or come up with better ideas.
I'm so over the reboots. Now, if they rebooted stuff to say in another 50 years when we're al long gone, we'll then that is a good time to do it.
Like Gossip Girl is rebooting, and that freaking show ended like five years ago. That is insane. And I used to complain when it was just 20-30 years, but now they are rebooting stuff that didn't even end long ago, like Charmed which ended a decade before they brought it back with the bad CW version.
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Post by Tim on Jun 27, 2020 23:22:01 GMT -5
Coming up wiht original stuff is seemingly beyond the abilities of Hollywood these days. Instead it's just reboot, reboot, reboot
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Post by Squad 51 on Jun 28, 2020 8:14:08 GMT -5
Sorry, spirit, I mean. Esprit is French and sometimes I switch with my languages.
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Post by Tim on Jun 28, 2020 11:32:21 GMT -5
Oh, okay then
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jul 9, 2020 9:48:28 GMT -5
Time for the latest woke racebent reboot -- The Wonder Years!This just SCREAMS "only greenlit because of BLM." When will Hollywood start letting Black people have their own shows and not rehashes of old things? When will Hollywood stop rebooting everything under the sun?
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jul 9, 2020 9:57:34 GMT -5
It sounds like a pandering remake, Dad and I used to watch the original show and it reminded him of growing up in the 60s. The network should do an original show with the same premise, a show about an African American family in the 60s with a teenage protagonist could be very interesting and if it had a very good 60s soundtrack it would be even better. But this sounds like pandering, it would only be Wonder Years in name only.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jul 9, 2020 10:13:36 GMT -5
It sounds like a pandering remake, Dad and I used to watch the original show and it reminded him of growing up in the 60s. The network should do an original show with the same premise, a show about an African American family in the 60s with a teenage protagonist could be very interesting and if it had a very good 60s soundtrack it would be even better. But this sounds like pandering, it would only be Wonder Years in name only. It absolutely is. Even worse, it sounds like the show wants to go out of its way to portray old-timey racism (hence the Deep South setting), which only amps up the pandering and white guilt dripping out of this show. Black people are actually getting tired of 90% of mainstream movies and shows starring them revolving around either slavery or Civil Rights. There's more to the Black experience than just misery and oppression. Black people want escapist fluff, too. Also, there's already a "Black Wonder Years." It's called Everybody Hates Chris. Just sayin.
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Post by Tim on Jul 9, 2020 11:25:07 GMT -5
I was going to comment on that myself, Betty, but you beat me to it. Great minds think alike.
I'm beginning to think that they should pass a law: No more reboots, period!
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jul 9, 2020 12:46:23 GMT -5
I was going to comment on that myself, Betty, but you beat me to it. Great minds think alike. I'm beginning to think that they should pass a law: No more reboots, period!
And, Everybody Hates Chris was set during a more appropriate era, too -- the mid 80s. That not only made it just as removed from its present (mid 00s) as the Wonder Years was from the late 80s, but it also meant that the show wasn't bogged-down in Civil Rights storylines and could be an unironic nostalgia-fest. Like, if we just have to have a racebent Wonder Years, why does it have to be set in the late 60s? Why not set it in the late 90s, instead? That better fits the 20 year cycle, and I would hazard a guess that more Black people have nostalgia for the 90s vs the 60s (for very obvious reasons).
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Post by Tim on Jul 9, 2020 23:26:42 GMT -5
Besides, to the target audience, late teens to early 20's, the 1960's are as remote as the Roman Empire.
Can't see this show lasting long.
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Post by Trinity on Sept 10, 2020 23:52:33 GMT -5
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Sept 11, 2020 2:15:01 GMT -5
Oh, dear, another show aired in the '90s getting rebooted already but with the main character being a girl this time.
Never watched the original but have seen pictures in the past of young Neil Patrick Harris playing Doogie then.
Just for once, I'd love hearing an original idea come out which no-one seems to have at the minute obviously.
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