The fact so many of these 20 year old shows have been brought back just highlights how incapable the current crop of showrunners are at creating something.
Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, who knows what else since I dont actually watch tv. The other current popular TV shows are Invincible and The Boys, both comic adaptations which still require using other existing material for inspiration, and while Invincible is vaguely following the source material, both are complete garbage.
Things Invincible has changed are,
Mark is now half Asian, because his mother is now Korean or something because of the VA. Thank goodness they also managed to get a real life non terrestrial alien to voice Nolan to keep this trend. Oh wait, they didn't so that, they got J K Simmons.
Mark's first girlfriend was blackwashed, which has hilarious consequences of her later being beaten up by her next bf.
Techjacket, the blue beetle character, was genderbent and also nerfed so badly even if the character was still a dude there would be complaints because at various points in the comic TJ effortlessly stomps the invading aliens. In the show the girl version gets turned into Yamcha.
Rexplode was made Hispanic, which also means Rudy is now Hispanic because he clones a body from Rex to use himself. Rudy in the comic literally ends up looking like a full haired Lex Luthor with bright orange hair, beard, and green eyes.
And all this is before getting onto the point about how bad the animation is, something a lot of adaptations suffer from now, like One Punch season 3 which was rightfully mocked for how bad things turned out.
Worse still you still have sycophants defending this because it still means getting a season every year.
There's loads of origninal programming if you care to look for it. Seeing the top 40 of TV will make you believe that everything is a reboot, but there's a lot of unique shows being produced.
The fact so many of these 20 year old shows have been brought back just highlights how incapable the current crop of showrunners are at creating something.
Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, who knows what else since I dont actually watch tv. The other current popular TV shows are Invincible and The Boys, both comic adaptations which still require using other existing material for inspiration, and while Invincible is vaguely following the source material, both are complete garbage.
Things Invincible has changed are,
Mark is now half Asian, because his mother is now Korean or something because of the VA. Thank goodness they also managed to get a real life non terrestrial alien to voice Nolan to keep this trend. Oh wait, they didn't so that, they got J K Simmons.
Mark's first girlfriend was blackwashed, which has hilarious consequences of her later being beaten up by her next bf.
Techjacket, the blue beetle character, was genderbent and also nerfed so badly even if the character was still a dude there would be complaints because at various points in the comic TJ effortlessly stomps the invading aliens. In the show the girl version gets turned into Yamcha.
Rexplode was made Hispanic, which also means Rudy is now Hispanic because he clones a body from Rex to use himself. Rudy in the comic literally ends up looking like a full haired Lex Luthor with bright orange hair, beard, and green eyes.
And all this is before getting onto the point about how bad the animation is, something a lot of adaptations suffer from now, like One Punch season 3 which was rightfully mocked for how bad things turned out.
Worse still you still have sycophants defending this because it still means getting a season every year.
There's loads of origninal programming if you care to look for it. Seeing the top 40 of TV will make you believe that everything is a reboot, but there's a lot of unique shows being produced.
Maniac, Barry, Paradise, Severance, Yellowjackets, Shrinking, etc
Or, hear me out... anime.
Live action tv is so infested that it's not worth digging through the trash.
Anime is not my thing, personally. I prefer live action.
There are plenty of options available that I've enjoyed, including rewatches. Going through Breaking Bad again now
Better Call Saul made me hate Walt and Jesse.