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What's up with Non-Rebooting Reboots?
9 years ago
Every so often we get a mass of reboots to existing properties, some do it continuously, some wait a while.
Recently Cartoon Network rebooted the PowerPuff girls, the reaction is mixed. There is just something missing (well several somethings owing to the new 11 minuet format), by itself it's not a bad show but Cartoon network seems to not want it to be it's own thing. That is to say thye seem to expect the Audience to already know previous version and just KNOW the origin of the main characters and all the returning villains, making it more a continuation that a proper reboot. So new fans are expect to have already seen the old version? How does that make sense, if they saw the old version then they aren't new fans anymore, they are fans of the previous incarnation.
it's not the only show either that seems to have this expectation. CN's Teen Titans GO seems to also expect it's audience to Already KNOW the Older version, and understand it's a Parody of the old show, but still accept tit as a separate entity. They want new fans to jump in with out knowledge and older fans to weather insults the writers have directly made at them?
Disney did the same thing but WORSE with it's Reboot of the excellent Xaiolin Showdown. They pretty much started their "reboot" in the middle of the original show's second season as if to justify not setting up the plot or introducing the characters. This "Midquel Boot" makes not sens e as they had to change the names of the magical objects the show revolved around and character designs due to copy right issues. So they expected new fans to jump in in the middle of the story and older fans to ignore half the series and accept massive design, name and format changes?
I'm not sure what these networks are thinking, wanting to appeal to older fans but at the same time pandering to younger kids? That doesn't make sense, you just confuse the new viewers and insult the older ones. Pick a direction other than "merchandising, merchandising, merchandising!". Cartoon network seems the worst with this, cancelling shows for failures to sell toys despite the huge fan base, rating and acclaim (Young Justice, Thundercats Reboot). In one case the show Symbiotic Titian was canned because of poor toy sales when there WEREN'T any toys, if bad toy sales can be used as a reason how could the punish it for failing to sell non-existent products?
Recently Cartoon Network rebooted the PowerPuff girls, the reaction is mixed. There is just something missing (well several somethings owing to the new 11 minuet format), by itself it's not a bad show but Cartoon network seems to not want it to be it's own thing. That is to say thye seem to expect the Audience to already know previous version and just KNOW the origin of the main characters and all the returning villains, making it more a continuation that a proper reboot. So new fans are expect to have already seen the old version? How does that make sense, if they saw the old version then they aren't new fans anymore, they are fans of the previous incarnation.
it's not the only show either that seems to have this expectation. CN's Teen Titans GO seems to also expect it's audience to Already KNOW the Older version, and understand it's a Parody of the old show, but still accept tit as a separate entity. They want new fans to jump in with out knowledge and older fans to weather insults the writers have directly made at them?
Disney did the same thing but WORSE with it's Reboot of the excellent Xaiolin Showdown. They pretty much started their "reboot" in the middle of the original show's second season as if to justify not setting up the plot or introducing the characters. This "Midquel Boot" makes not sens e as they had to change the names of the magical objects the show revolved around and character designs due to copy right issues. So they expected new fans to jump in in the middle of the story and older fans to ignore half the series and accept massive design, name and format changes?
I'm not sure what these networks are thinking, wanting to appeal to older fans but at the same time pandering to younger kids? That doesn't make sense, you just confuse the new viewers and insult the older ones. Pick a direction other than "merchandising, merchandising, merchandising!". Cartoon network seems the worst with this, cancelling shows for failures to sell toys despite the huge fan base, rating and acclaim (Young Justice, Thundercats Reboot). In one case the show Symbiotic Titian was canned because of poor toy sales when there WEREN'T any toys, if bad toy sales can be used as a reason how could the punish it for failing to sell non-existent products?
