If this ever gets made (which I still doubt) it will be interesting to see if that “youth for youth’s sake” message will still resonate. It did before the 1970's when 75% of the band that played a song with the lyric “I hope I die before I get old” grew old without dying.

How about lets implement the simple safeguards against abuse instituted successfully all over the country and not relax them just because someone is famous, wins, or earns a program lots of money.

I agree with you mostly. The amount of entitlement in the SF/F world can be staggering and ultimately the creators owe fans nothing whether it is timely installments in a treasured series or franchise, adherence to some abstract “canon,” or not to remake/reboot/reimagine and “ruin” some work looked upon with nostalgia.

But good exercise routines never go out of style. Now excuse me while I do my drum aerobics.

Or Abar: The Black Superman.

Just thinking out loud here, but it’s probably because there is a difference between the sports, the activities being played on the field/pitch/slopes/rink etc, and the businesses and bureaucracies that regulate, officiate, and other wise govern specific sports at specific levels. It’s not a hard and fast difference,…

I’m not outraged. (there are so many more important things to get outraged these days especially in sports.)

Speaking as a fellow cranky old man, I heartily endorse this take.

I’ve been assured upthread that it is totally different. Ultimately it isn’t what she did, but how she did it. She didn’t respect THE SHIELD RINGS!

When oily Tonga guy competed in cross-country skiing after only three months experience it was touted as an inspirational story by NBC. How is this different?

But the author doesn’t say if the reboot (or remake or rerun or reunion or revival etc) is good or bad. It asks if the IDEA of a reboot is a bad idea. And ideas can certainly be bad or good based upon any number of criteria.

Wait. Would it be a reunion? Reboot? Revival? Remake?

They learned their lesson, then?

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Came here to say the same thing. He plays the rarest of all possible characters in teen romantic comedies: An intelligent, three-dimensional parent. And his subplot is not strange. It provides Skye’s character, and Cusack’s, a view of the adult world. She loves her dad but realizes he isn’t the perfect man she always…

After seeing the Dinklage v. Freeman rap off all I could think of was the old Heat Miser/Snow Miser rap battles of the 1970's. Now those were the bomb. Old school.

C&W music sung by drug using felons who have been to jail and are proud of it!

Have you been following the trial of Baltimore police? That’s not as bad as enabling a decade or more of an abusive pedophile but it’s pretty enraging, too.

Yeah, but that was 2004. Powerpoint was the shit then. We looked up to anyone who could put together a good presentation like THEY.WERE.GODS! And he probably had spinning letters and fancy wipes and fades. Back in the early aughts those men were the rock stars. We were so naive.

Maybe they concluded he was playing with a full deck?

I meant to agree and offer an unrelated opinion. I need to work on my presentation skills.