Yep, you are setting yourself up for a lashing. And rightly too.

It’s so they can add future love triangle between the frogs and the new boy. There wasn’t enough teen hormone angst in the movie to make a tv series.

Dude, an animated series in which they’re actual frogs. GOLD!

It also generates buzz.

I think that’s a fair assessment. It’s kind of lazy to just take existing characters and reboot them with different body parts, etc. Not an expert either, but I’m guessing that the content creators/producers are looking for recognizable proven properties rather than new, more risky characters and IP. Also, if you do…

Major in English Linguistics.

That was my first thought too, but given the success Marvel have made in their comics of gender-swapping most of their characters to great success, it’ll probably work for this too. And let’s face it, the original Lost Boys had - what - 2 female characters in the whole thing? Personally I’m waiting for them to…

“the accomplishments of a white man”

It is just weak tea paying lip service to diversity. I can see the writers room in my head.

This is always my thought as well, and I’m genuinely surprised it doesn’t get mentioned more. Gender/race-swapping just for the sake of it always comes across to me as incredibly lazy and faintly patronising. It’s the studios wanting to get points for diversifying by doing the easiest thing possible, rather than…

I believe this story

Here’s the dirty little secret of writing. Write great characters, leave the pronouns and names out. If you have to put names in, then make them gender neutral ones, (Alex, Bailey, Jan) and let the director and the casting people decide who should play the various part. You don’t have to write strong women, or weak…

I agree with you in theory and had the same thought.  But before that I saw a picture of Corey Feldman who I loved in his 80s roles and thought it was dumb doing a remake because no one could be as good as him.  So then I thought sure why not, I'm not attached to them as dudes and it will make them less comparable so…

Oh, snap.

Why not gender swap them? it could lead to interesting avenues for story telling. 

If I’m remembering correctly, that’s Death, so its precious is probably someone’s life. That story was about a guy who had a bag that he could make anything go into, I think. The guy tricks Death, which causes crazy problems, and eventually he let’s Death go.  However, Death will never take his life so he’s cursed to…

“Marvel is considering an intermission”

Agree on Cavill, but Afleck was a shitty Batman, and Lois Lane might as well been played by a cardboard cut-out, instead of Adams.

Agreed. I actually liked most of Man of Steel, aside from a couple of problems. Just re-watched it the other day and still liked most of it. Given the right script, Cavill could be a perfect Superman. 

The Lost Light crew’s gonna be jealous when they see Rodimus went off and made a band without any of them...