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jamie0.0
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25 Dec 2025, 10:54 pm

Reboots get all the love in 2025.
I know original ideas still exist, but apart from a handful of high production ones, none of them last beyond one season. It's kind of turning me off tv.
It's sad when my only option seems to be watching older shows that I missed in their glory days, when supposedly the companies are putting out more shows than ever before.
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26 Dec 2025, 11:10 am

The thing I hate about reboots is continuity.

A reboot happens because one continuity ran its course to conclusion and they want to start over. What they come up with is not as good as the old continuity.

Sometimes a continuity wasn't working out so well so they abandon it and start over. What they come up with is just as mediocre or worse.

It feels like every series we've known and loved is being rebooted multiple times within a span of less than 10 years.

You can only capture lightning in a bottle once.


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26 Dec 2025, 8:07 pm

Aspiegaming wrote:
The thing I hate about reboots is continuity.

A reboot happens because one continuity ran its course to conclusion and they want to start over. What they come up with is not as good as the old continuity.

Sometimes a continuity wasn't working out so well so they abandon it and start over. What they come up with is just as mediocre or worse.

It feels like every series we've known and loved is being rebooted multiple times within a span of less than 10 years.

You can only capture lightning in a bottle once.


I think you're right, they are trying to recapture the lightning in a bottle. And that's comming back to bite them when fans only want familiarity and continuation.


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26 Dec 2025, 8:53 pm

Possible exception? I thought Lost in Space [2018–2021] was a huge improvement over [1965–1968]!


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