02-10-2021, 02:34 PM
Sarcany wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
Ughhhhh!!! This is actually one of my all-time favorite sci-fi series, and did NOT need to be "remade" or "re-envisioned" or "reimagined" or whatever BS term they're now using...
"Riverdaling."
I see that the current term seems to be "reboot". A reboot, as I understand it, is just computer-speak for a restart, but they've suborned the term, and now reboot is apparently just a euphemism for "rehash". If you take the name of something, but then change the spirit of it, all the characters or names, or even the entire plot or concept, it's not a "reboot". I'm particularly thinking of Trek and the Spider-Man movies ... so-called "reboots" that have been just terrible. On the other hand, the recent Planet of the Apes movies have been pretty decent, but arguable if those were reboots so much as true reimaginings.