janedavitt

I get puzzled by people hating things in advance.
Especially reboots or sequels or sequels they insist are reboots.

I get it if there's some egregious detail known like 'but this time everyone is straight and white except the bad guys' or suchlike, but not when they're doing this from a standing start.

An existing story is being taken as inspiration for new story. Will they use the parts we thought were the good stuff? Don't know, do care, so it's potentially stressful. Will they use the bad stuff the makers didnt seem to evaluate properly the first time? Well that was always a problem, so the only way is up. ... actually no I can think of so many downs but you do at least have room for improvement. And, is The Thing that everyone was there for the first time, still a Thing we could stand to see in stories? Well generally yeah or we'd be bored of the basic idea by now.

Even if we get some horrible shambling husk of a came back wrong, it's not like it rewrites the original.

... blu ray and streaming upscaled releases do enough of that already...



It's especially puzzling when these are fanfic people. Someone with a budget is doing their fic grand scale. Hope they tag it well and move on, you know?



And one can always hope for good things, because we are as ever in a cultural moment that could really stand to get some actual feminism in it. Amongst so many other things.




Of course at my current rates of pop cultural consumption I might catch up to any new broadcast sometime around the point it is old enough to vote, but that is a separate problem.