The Big Problem That Ruins Teen Show Reboots & Revivals 🤔 iCarly, Gossip Girl, Gilmore Girls & More

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From Gossip Girl to iCarly to Gilmore Girls to Boy Meets World to (almost!) Lizzie McGuire and beyond, having our favorite characters from our tween and teen years come back as adults sounds like a great premise, but it often doesn't work out the way we'd hope

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Also some shows that fans want to revive just literally don't work with the characters being adults. Like Roswell the 90s/00s series was a teen Romeo and Juliet scenario with aliens, and you can't age up Romeo and Juliet because then they just look like crazy people. I tried to watch Roswell, New Mexico and those were some VERY unhealthy adults - especially Max. Buffy too was particularly about being a teen and carrying the allegorical and actual weight of the world on your shoulders, and it too struggled as she got older and the show just sort of dropped the allegorical part (Sabrina had the same struggle, and Veronica Mars also felt weird when revived). All the coming of age stories don't work when people were already supposed to come of age (Gilmore Girls, etc.), or if there's no good way to bring a larger cast back together without unraveling their growth. And most reboots never quite capture the magic of original casts, as others have stated.

Weirdly Lizzie McGuire is the only one I'd want to see, I think Hilary Duff has a lot of charisma and had they actually let it be a grown up series I could see her being fun to watch dealing with the problems of a 30-something (I loved her in Younger).