These are all done on the speculation that millennials want to see it for nostalgia reasons.
They haven’t come out yet, so the jury is still out whether Millenials actually want it or not.
or anyone else. Im not a millenial but like all those shows but don’t want to see a reboot. Well maybe buffy. I mean the special effects would be much better.
What I want more than a Buffy reboot is Buffy inspired shows. Give me your take on plucky urban fantasy where the veil is everyone around trying to pretend this shit isn’t happening.
Scrubs and Malcolm are great and I’m often down to rewatch them but they were great because they were well made shows that would otherwise be generic. Scrubs is just a medical comedy but made by someone with experience as a doctor so it has a lot of heart and willingness to depict the medical system realistically (compared to other shows of the genre). Malcolm is similar it’s just a grounded show about a lower middle class family with too many kids and not enough money trying to deal with one of the kids being gifted (and later just absolutely not dealing with another of them being gifted). Nothing is stopping other shows in these genres from being made this well.
Buffy is the only one in a genre that’s hurting for content and the answer is you really just need to do it and do it well. Seriously, do a the oroville for Buffy, please, it would be something I’ve wanted for years and it would be way better than a reboot or sequel or anything because you’re just going to disappoint. Also because Buffy was simultaneously amazing and awful. A show inspired by Buffy has so much room to be better than it.
Can we just have more than 1 damn seasons of The Fades? So much squandered potential.
I’ve seen the Scrubs guys on the phone commercial, they’re old and have little chemistry anymore, who wants to see that. The thing about nostalgia is that it doesn’t exist in a bubble, it’s not just a show, it’s a whole feeling about how things were, a reboot isn’t going to scratch that itch, it’s not the same and never will be.
I’d like to see Malcolm in the middle very much thank you very much
It will be more profitable than not so they will do it. All of it.
This has nothing to do with nostalgia and everything to do with tv and movie executives being unwilling to make anything without an ipo
Why take a risk, when you can recycle and print money.
Fans are partly to blame for slurping up recycled trash.
Cool, Firefly when?
Brother, I’m right there with you, but FUCK Joss. Seriously shit human being. Can we get it without him?
I think it’s time to accept it’s dead but I’d love a show inspired by it
Like the book The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - different world building, but a similar feel - could be used as the basis for a spiritual successor.
That entire book series would make for such a good anthology show
All four books are good (particularly the first two), but I yearned for an ongoing story rather than an anthology … to really get my teeth into the characters, have adventures, and maybe resolve (or at least progress) some of the larger societal issues that were presented
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The only millennial reboot I’ve seen work is really more of a genX reboot anyways: beavis and butthead.
Animaniacs wasn’t bad, either.
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Yeah I didn’t realize I was asking for these. In fact, thinking about Scrubs I was initially excited but then I truly thought about Scrubs.
S1 to S3 - genuinely great tv S4 to S5 - gradual decline S6 - out of plotlines S7 - writers strike S8 - everyone is not hot and all the old problems are new, recycle everything S9 - don’t talk about it.
So, a few good seasons of TV. But that’s how nostalgia works, we think about those first few seasons, not the later ones. Thinking about a reboot now? It won’t be good, it just won’t be.
So yeah. I think it’s far more likely Hollywood is desperate to keep our eyes on their content for their bottom line and are trying to exploit nostalgia.
Meanwhile, Malcom in tyrant Middle stayed pretty consistent.
Surprisingly it did. Only in the last season when reese joined the army did I really start feeling like it turned. It sounds like they’re coming back for more of a short run “epilogue” style, instead of a full blown season. I think that’d be better.
Funny, I thought it was because Hollywood is plum fucking out of ideas.
I’d seriously love to see a Brunnen-G spinoff show set in the years before the insect war. I hate the idea of recasting Kai but it could work if they do it right.
Unfortunately that show was never more than an underground cult thing, even in its native countries of Canada and Germany.
The only thing I’ll care about nostalgia wise is when it officially becomes 6 seasons and a movie
Oh god is it that hard to come up with something fresh?
Oh right it’s strictly about milking money, gotcha.
Only time I can remember a “reboot” working was Karate Kid/Cobra Kai but that was way different.
I hadn’t seen the latest season. The prior season I felt like it was overstaying it’s welcome.
My justification is that we’ve done so much nowadays. Any original story you come up with is going to feel like a rip-off of an existing IP. I sincerely believe this is a big part of why you get so many reboots.
Yeah but those rip offs can be done well and feel unique because of it. Continued IPs not only struggle because of what came before but they’re also stuck with the eye of the Property owner on them
It’s like that old adage, I only paraphrase, every story is more or less the same- man leaves on journey, or stranger arrives in town.
I do not subscribe to that bullshit because then every story in the world could be summarized with “something happens, the end”.
Our humanity may stay more or less the same (that’s why we can feel with both men and gods in the Iliad as well as be incensed about contenders on Big Brother, right?), but our circumstances change, our challenges change, our culture changes, with all their peculiarities and specifics that makes fresh voices and takes worth watching, because this particular thing has never been suggested before.
Furthermore you could say the same about music- there are no original tunes anymore because it’s already all been done, right?
Not right.
Scrubs is my comfort show. I don’t know how or why it happened, but I’ll put it on when I sleep or need background sounds while I do other things.
The answer’s not in your head, my dear – it’s in your butt.
Check the poo…
They will never replicate Malcolm in the Middle successfully.
Let the milking begin.
