Reboots

[kinwad]

So I just read that "Veronice Mars" is getting a reboot on Hulu. This in addition to "The L Word", "The Gilmour Girls", "Will and Grace", "Murphy Brown", and "Charmed" (w/o the original cast, tho). And to rub salt in the wound, it's the UK version of QAF that's supposed to be getting a reboot

Comments

[mander3_swish]

reboots come down to the casting and writing.
We were lucky with QaF US, that cowlip brought the best bits from the uk and made it their own. Shameless US and The Office miraculously managed that as well for the most part.

some reboots you mentioned are good, great even, some are awful (i tried watching one ep of charmed when tyler blackburn was one... nope).

HOWEVER, the most important reboot/re-imagining everyone should be watching is Roswell New Mexico. While the original had my heart, RNM has my soul. The original was whitewashed, so the new show brings back the immigrant flavor to the show (timely, no?). As well it's set 10 years post high school, so they're adults with adult problems but still hung up on shit that went down in senior year. And, and, and one of the main ships is a M/M relationship -- spoiler alert --- it's cosmic.

Anyway, I should make a post about this on my own journal, but I've been meaning to comment for a couple days.

In conclusion, if we were to ever get a QaF reboot of some sort, I would definitely give it a chance. Reboots also tend to bring visibility to the original shows, so that can only be seen as a good thing.

[kinwad]

*g* Thanks so much for commenting, honey! I agree w/what you said and I would give it a chance, TBH. But what I'd settle for just a one-hour tv movie with the original characters that shows where/what they're doing now. *sigh* But I'll never get it. *g* That's what the original DVDs and fanfics are for!