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....I can't be the only one to notice this sudden spike in attempted remakes of 80's shows.
You know what I bet it is?
Alla these young up-and-coming executives are our age now and miss when they were kids and there was still material on TV worth watching ( Well let's face facts--the *worst* stuff to come out of the 80's is better than the *best* stuff now).
But there are some shows that weree popular then that really only could have worked *then* ( I saw recently that they tried to do a remake of Knight Rider, but honestly, the way technology was in the 80's that was a cool concept, but nowadays anyone with half an idea what they were doing could build what amounts to K.I.T.T.).
Then just before that was this horrocious( is that a word? It is now)attempt at a new Terminator series which was basically *destined* to fail because they went and retconned all of the elements that made the original series *good*.
And now I'm hearing these whispers of an A-Team movie....and I'm thinkin' to myself......WHY??!?!?!?!
Yeah, OK, you could do one, being as there's the backdrop of our current unpleasantness to work against, but to what point and purpose? What are we gonna have, friggin' Ben Stiller as B.A. or something?
And They're lookin', so I hear, at Matthew McConaghey for a Magnum P.I. redux. This having been a close friend's fave 80's show, I'm almost afraid to break the news to him.)
They had cursed well better leave my beloved Airwolf alone or there Will be trouble....Oh yes.........
Wasn't it a hell of a lot more fun to go to movies or watch the idiot box before anything original or creative got shut down because it was a *gasp* RISK!!!!!!!
You know what I bet it is?
Alla these young up-and-coming executives are our age now and miss when they were kids and there was still material on TV worth watching ( Well let's face facts--the *worst* stuff to come out of the 80's is better than the *best* stuff now).
But there are some shows that weree popular then that really only could have worked *then* ( I saw recently that they tried to do a remake of Knight Rider, but honestly, the way technology was in the 80's that was a cool concept, but nowadays anyone with half an idea what they were doing could build what amounts to K.I.T.T.).
Then just before that was this horrocious( is that a word? It is now)attempt at a new Terminator series which was basically *destined* to fail because they went and retconned all of the elements that made the original series *good*.
And now I'm hearing these whispers of an A-Team movie....and I'm thinkin' to myself......WHY??!?!?!?!
Yeah, OK, you could do one, being as there's the backdrop of our current unpleasantness to work against, but to what point and purpose? What are we gonna have, friggin' Ben Stiller as B.A. or something?
And They're lookin', so I hear, at Matthew McConaghey for a Magnum P.I. redux. This having been a close friend's fave 80's show, I'm almost afraid to break the news to him.)
They had cursed well better leave my beloved Airwolf alone or there Will be trouble....Oh yes.........
Wasn't it a hell of a lot more fun to go to movies or watch the idiot box before anything original or creative got shut down because it was a *gasp* RISK!!!!!!!
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