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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[just444]

the Gossip Girl reboot was so boring. and everyone was "unproblematic" which doesn't really make good tv. and the acting was really iffy

[nomoneyfun]

It was so bad for so many reasons. The majority of the cast simply could not act. They also had these Black female characters that they were afraid of making unlikeable except Monet (the dark-skin Black girl because the colorism of it all) who was a villain without a cause.

[sassandthecity]

Also they were too rich in a real way? Like the fun of Gossip Girl was them trying to be hugely rich but on a CW budget and that was a camp aspect.

[xellabelle]

I yell this from the rooftops every time but Gossip Girl is supposed to be a metaphor!! It was never an actual person or cyberstalker tldr; we are all gossip girl. The appeal of the show was always privileged old money kids set against the backdrop of NYC wearing pretty outfits, not who is GG. The fact that the show runners didn't understand this was the downfall of the original and reboot tbh. It just irritates me when people keep asking "who is Gossip Girl", this isn't Pretty Little Liars.

The reboot was also just OTT scandalous in a very boring way and weirdly woke and unwoke in the wrong ways. It had zero heart and nobody cares about influencers. GG as a concept was very "new" in the 2000s pre-social media but now it's like, everyone is literally Gossip Girl on Instagram.

[baekpedaling]

I would like them to bring these showd back, not for teens, but for the now adults who watched and loved these shows. And not with stupid drama but real life issues we're facing

[yami_no_hoshi]

Okay I'm doing an ONTD doesn't watch because I just want to get on a soapbox to rant about the Gilmore Girls revival lol. it didn't work because ASP didn't watch/want to deal with season 7 because she didn't write it, so the revival was almost a do-over for her. but it doesn't make sense. Lorelai and Luke only NOW talking about having more kids when she's almost 50 (even though she said multiple times in the original show that she wanted more kids and so did Luke), them not being married, Logan engaged to a girl his family set him up even though season 7 Logan had so much character growth that he would never, and Rory sleeping with Logan even though he's engaged and she's dating someone (not that that's super out of character for her LOL, but it just doesn't ring true with where they left the story in season 7

[anus]

I recently rewatched the whole show and the revival (hadn't watched it since it came out) and I was annoyed with everything all over again. I hate what ASP did and I don't understand why you'd want to ruin your own characters like that.

[yami_no_hoshi]

exactly. it's total garbage writing. Lorelai and Luke got back together in the original series because they knew they wanted to be together, they had already been engaged, and suddenly it's been 9 years and they're STILL not married? that doesn't make any sense. Luke says "what about the kids" in season 5, Lorelai tells the therapist in season 6 "I'm ready to get married and I want another kid and I don't want to wait anymore" and they wait for her to be in her late 40s to discuss this? it just doesn't make any sense writing-wise lmao and those lines are from seasons that ASP wrote so she doesn't even have the season 7 excuse.

[helyanwe89]

I totally agree. Emily ended up with the only actually character growth, and that was probably only because they had to do something since the actor who played Richard died, so they needed the character to die as well.

Also, the whole ending with Rory getting pregnant & whatnot some sort of "full circle" made no sense. Lorelai got pregnant as a teenager. Rory was in her 30s so it's completely different.

[tankmachine]

reboots and revivals are not a new thing despite everybody acting like they are, people (particularly millennials and now gen z) are just noticing them because there's more of *everything* now and we are adults who are able to know when we're being nostalgia pandered to

like the brady bunch universe is so weirdly complicated and expansive with numerous spinoffs and revivals but most people only remember the original series at this point if even that

[astrofisica]

they’re definitely not a new thing, but I do think they’re way different now once we consider the context’s of today’s media landscape. we have fewer studios, and they currently uninterested in producing works that don’t already have an established IP.

[naturesluzzer]

I feel like the difference is that back then they could be easily ignored because there was so much else going on creatively, whereas now existing IP makes up the majority of what people are offered.

[alwayspolaris]

Ok but the 90s Brady Bunch movies actually did rule. They were the perfect combo of heartfelt and tongue in cheek that few reboots/parodies have ever mastered. And we're still all quoting them lol.

[anus]

Speaking of revivals, but I bet the One Tree Hill sequel is going to be trash. It's very sus that Joy isn't a producer with them.

[arellaj]

There's going to be an One Tree Hill followup??????

[anus]

Sophia, Hilarie, and Danneel have a deal with Netflix for it. It'll focus on Brooke and Peyton and fans are speculating that they're killing off Lucas because the premise mentions them dealing with grief.

[just444]

they had all pretty weird takes on their podcast, this will be a mess