Having taught film in college, I can say a very common discussion among the teachers is that a roadblock to getting them to appreciate 70s films is that the movies of the era broadly just have a very different sense of pacing than contemporary movies. Halloween, like you said, but Alien is a hell of a slow burn, and Ta…

I’m not unconvinced that the people behind the show don’t actually understand it.

Okay, well, you had initially replied to someone else who said:

Um, yeah no, I really think it’s mostly the money

Money obviously isn’t implausible as a motive, and of course you can’t blame people for wanting to get paid, but I think all you have to do to see that it’s not much in play is to read either one of those guys talking about trying to get the work finished. They’re positively tortured. They both start to talk about the…

Eventually the main characters got caught in holding patterns and the books started following side plots that were nowhere near as compelling or even all that interesting. In twenty-plus years, there have been only two new books, and they barely advanced the main plot at all.

Felt skeptical at the announcement, cautious but open at the casting; saw the stills, felt more skeptical.

Exactly. All the promotional material made it look like discordant intentional camp and bad fight choreography, but for some reason the internet got all hype on the show out of nowhere like six weeks ago. Reviews are out, and...duh, duh, DUH--discordant intentional camp and bad fight choreography.

See, the thing we writing teachers tell students is that tonal irony can be used as a very powerful tool, but the drawback is that making sure an audience catches it requires very careful and polished writing.

The ‘90s were and are awesome. We will be in a better place when ‘90s nostalgia is ascendant.

So it’s just going to jump to them being 40, or the way things are shaping up for their generation, 60?

Whereas Thanos’ exact powers—not related to his use of the Infinity Stones—have always been ill-defined, Eros’ on the other hand have been: they’re a rather easy-to-explain set of psionics he uses to manipulate the pleasure centers of people’s brains.

Wow, you’re very lucky to have had the opportunity to already see the Uncharted, Cowboy Bebop, and Borderlands adaptations, especially since the latter is still in post.

André Nemec [...] has said many times that fans shouldn’t expect his show to be a one-to-one remake of the original. That was abundantly clear when the first Cowboy Bebop trailer dropped this week, which was recognizably Bebop, but offered glimpses of some of those small changes will annoy nitpicky fans and likely no…

It’s taking the beats of the original series—literally, in the case of composer Yoko Kanno’s music—the plots of at least some of the episodes, the art style, and the backstories, and goodness knows what else, but it’s not slavishly devoted to recreating the original frame for frame.

I mean, I don’t know how to convince you that that’s campy af, but I also don’t really understand how someone could look at it and seriously say it isn’t.

Yeah, I find myself raining on parades I didn’t mean to either, but I just think this set of expectations might be unjugglable.

Gotta say, reading comments all over the internet for both of these videos, I feel like I didn’t watch the same video as everyone else. Like you say, most of it looks to me like straight-up mimicry of the original, which just makes all these interviews when they say they’re breaking new ground really weird.

Everything that has come out about the show has shown that they are invoking the spirit without making it an exact copy

I’m baffled by the excited comments I’m seeing here and most places now, as the whole internet seems to have taken a 180 from being highly suspicious to now thinking it will be awesome.