If a TV series you loved from the 90s, 00s or even early 10s instead came out today - how different do you imagine it would be? How would the writing be different? Who would be cast instead?
If Captain Planet or Power Rangers or the X-Men animated series or Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM or Xena Warrior Princess or Justice League Unlimited came out today, you'd have a bunch of rat faced and humanoid thumb looking YouTubers complaining about the woke agenda ruining their childhoods with diverse casts, girl power and ecological consciousness.
There's an entire episode of the first Justice League where all men disappear from the world, and it's pretty good. We also get Hawkgirl basically telling Wonder Woman to literally get fucked with "don't knock it, sister" when WW doesn't understand the appeal of men.
The Bruce Timm shows were so damn good imo. Too bad we got that one scene between Batman and Barbara in Killing Joke...
Yeah it was another Amazon (well, an outsider that was welcomed in and given Amazon abilities) that turned bad and set off a virus that only affects men. So all the men were either sick or dying. The whole episode has some pretty good back and forth dialogue. And there were definitely sapphic vibes between the evil Amazon and her right hand lady as well.
Watched it again recently and it seems like it features and pushes all of the female heroes at least just as much as the male heroes. Although I find them pretty good with that over all when it comes to team up stuff.
Personally, I'm not too sure how to feel about Bruce Timm's thing for Bruce and Barbara getting together. As far as I know, before DC decided that they preferred shipping Nightwing with Batgirl instead of Starfire, Barbara was actually closer to Bruce's age and was a kinda love interest. And I'm guessing that's the dynamic that Bruce Timm grew up with. So as gross or inappropriate as it was, he was probably just trying to tell the stories that he daydreamed about back in the day. It definitely didn't work though.
Xmen animated came out recently to continue the story a bit, its pretty good
Yeah I enjoyed that a lot, personally. I actually rewatched the entire old series first before I started this new one. And apart from needing to get used to one or two of the voices at first, X-Men '97 carried on with the same themes and vibes perfectly.
If the Boondocks released today Conservatives would call it woke and it would make white liberals would feel uncomfortable
That show is hilarious. There's so many good lines and scenes.
"'And I Rise' Maya Angelou?!"
I recently found out that canonically speaking, Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy, are "ghetto" George W Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld
Babylon 5.
No idea, it created so much of the foundation for modern scifi, particularly the emphasis on in-depth plot arcs over multiple seasons.
B5 with bsg style vfx has always been the dream.
B5 would be called woke propaganda because of the parallels to what's going on in the world today. The narn/membari conflict, the night's watch (or whatever it was called), etc.
Married with Children, just wouldn't be made, IYKYK.
Peggy would be a trad-wife with a secret OnlyFans that catered to feet lovers, Al would be a redpilled computer dork selling health supplements online. Bud would be an iPad kid, and Kelly would he repeatedly groomed by a new guest star each season.
It's been heavily theorized that arrested development what have been a wild success now vs when it came out. When it was released it was the early 00s and most average TV watchers were into the casual sitcom. They did not have interest in watching each episode in order with a long running narrative and jokes that called back several episodes to get.
However that's where TV went. Now most of our shows follow that format, we enjoy it more. I think now they could have been successful
George Sr. Runs for president so he can pardon himself for the Light Treason
GOB accidentally gets a job building luxury condos in Crimea
Lindsay is George Sr.’s Special Advisor (to the campaign and then in the White House)
Tobias is nominated for secretary of HHS but has to get his medical license back. He refuses the job and demands to be made press secretary so he can be on TV every day
Michael ends up on an Air Force One flight with George Sr. fleeing the country
George Michael just wants to be left alone in school but has bodyguards around all the time
Heroes.
Generally, I suspect it would have much better VFX and inversely proportionally poorer plot and / or acting.
Mission Hill and other Gen X slacker style shows would just feel out of place or overly entitled in their outlook
OMG just remembered "Quads" damn I miss that one
edit: Reilly and his ragtag group of rebels, band together to deal with a world that doesn't understand them.... a quadriplegic, a blind man, a man with a hooks in place of hands, and a head on a skateboard.
Alright, geez
Remakes are lazy and boring