Just checked out the trailer for the new Quantum Reap (he's asian, it's a cheap joke), and the 'look' because there's no such thing as a real trailer anymore, has him in a completely modern neighborhood, dressed like he's from current year, and everyone else looks/acts like they are current year. The actual year for the setting? 1985. Everyone acts, talks, dresses, and looks like they stepped out of a struggle session.
There is no attempt to make any production look or feel like it is from the past in any of these new shows. What used to be a joke and a jarring moment (Keanu in Dracula) is now the entire theme. Cheap doesn't describe it, there is actual money thrown at all these productions. There is just nothing authentic here, it feels completely out of place.
Why? Are they afraid of trying? Is everything licensed to the point they can't use even a passing reference? Laziness? Or is it our old friend "we want to evoke nostalgia in people who never lived it, so nothing offensive, ever."
No, it take place 30 years after the conclusion of the original series ie current year.
The first episode goes to 1985.
The scene I am talking about in the trailer has not-Sam jump back to a robbery in 1985 as the getaway driver and some anorexic egg-predator dinosaur with cheekbones as his not-Al.
I'm gonna miss Al. He was a character that added to everything. Always in flashy clothes talking about the women he'd been with and smacking the shit out of the Ziggy terminal he carried. To thst Ziggy was a character too. A scatterbrian AI that had some troubles with the quantum.
And the lost love of his life, until the last. Lisa.
Which Sam fixed before vanishing into the quantum.
"Egg-predator?" Is that a new term for a dead-egger?
And if so, is there a list of these terms I can use for future reference?
It was 1999. A 1999 that looked much more futuristic than even today, but still.
It was almost never mentioned, so I don't blame you for missing it.