• XEAL@lemm.ee
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    But… but Futurama didn’t get a reboot, it got a new season that builds upon the existing story.

    A reboot means creating a new version or adaptation of an existing show and that’s not the case.

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    Do you have any idea how easy it is to calculate the success of a reboot? They are not aiming for awesome with these. They just need it to meet the lower end of the estimate of people that say they would watch a reboot of a familiar popular show. These are zero risk endeavors. Blame statistics and big data. Depressing but this isn’t going to stop.

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    In some cases the cow has died and they are trying milk the ground where there the cow stood.

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    I didn’t enjoy the latest season of futurama as much, but I did like all the previous reboots it had before the most recent. It was still good enough to watch though so can’t complain.

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      Haven’t been a fan of it until the last two episodes that have come out, those were pretty good. When they abandon “current” culture references as the core joke and just have a self contained Futurama esque story it still works

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    There won’t be any reboots of the greatest shows ever made, like Malcom in the middle

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      Well, the lead of that one had traumatic brain damage and has memory troubles, so the reboot is pretty difficult.

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    Ever watched tv in the 90s? Same. Love boat, Magnum p.i., general hospital, a-team, the list goes on. Hm, it seems the entertainment industry doesn’t care about good products, just about money. Surprise. But maybe - just maybe - it’ll suffer if people don’t watch that crap anymore. But that won’t happen. It’s not the greedy necromancers, it’s the consumer that’s broken and enables the scheme. Btw: that’s the meme that completely incorporates anything in the modern capitalist world, including exploited humans.

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      Hmmmmm now you’ve kind of caught me.

      If they are able to use a proper soundtrack I’d make an exception for this show.

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    As much as I am not a huge fan of reboots in general for TV shows/movies/series/etcetera, I really want to see a reboot of Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron.

    The meme definitely holds true, though.