My wife and I were just talking about how we've never seen a successful reboot of a TV show. Ever.
Futurama, Family Guy, MST3K, and many many more pale in comparison to their original runs. The creative decline is staggering. (Can't say I've seen the Battlestar Galactica reboot, though I've heard it's quite good, so maybe it's the lone exception).
The original Ranma 1/2 anime was pretty excellent, at least what I remember of it in middle school. I think I would find it more pervy now then anything (hilariously pervy? Doubtful).
Those ability names are next level. And here I was thinking Final Fantasy's spell cannon (Fire, Fira, Firega) was a stretch!
Some things do deserve to stay buried. But in a world where we're willing to take less risk on content success than ever before, dredging up the past and riffing off nostalgia seems inevitable.
I remember when FF8 (US) first introduced the spell names. In 7 it was Fire 1/2/3. I remember thinking it was jarring. Now it’s second nature!
We don’t see a lot of remasters of 90s anime games and I presume if it’s because of licensing issues in the developer side. But yeah, some of these TV reboots are real eyebrow raisers.
My wife and I were just talking about how we've never seen a successful reboot of a TV show. Ever.
Futurama, Family Guy, MST3K, and many many more pale in comparison to their original runs. The creative decline is staggering. (Can't say I've seen the Battlestar Galactica reboot, though I've heard it's quite good, so maybe it's the lone exception).
The original Ranma 1/2 anime was pretty excellent, at least what I remember of it in middle school. I think I would find it more pervy now then anything (hilariously pervy? Doubtful).
Those ability names are next level. And here I was thinking Final Fantasy's spell cannon (Fire, Fira, Firega) was a stretch!
Some things do deserve to stay buried. But in a world where we're willing to take less risk on content success than ever before, dredging up the past and riffing off nostalgia seems inevitable.
I remember when FF8 (US) first introduced the spell names. In 7 it was Fire 1/2/3. I remember thinking it was jarring. Now it’s second nature!
We don’t see a lot of remasters of 90s anime games and I presume if it’s because of licensing issues in the developer side. But yeah, some of these TV reboots are real eyebrow raisers.