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lelenmargyle

Decade of Awesome

Mar 25, 2015 19:24

I may be the only one who cares about half of this stuff, but I feel the need to start keeping a list, because the 20teens is shaping up to be the BEST EVER for awesome comebacks. Let's see...I'll start with "kind of awesome" and work my way up.

They're bringing back the good storyline/characters (meaning Han Solo, hellooooo) from Star Wars
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citrus_cactus March 26 2015, 15:00:25 UTC

I don't think I ever watched the show, but as soon as I read about X-Files I thought about you, so YAY, glad that's exciting news (and that Digimon and Pokemon are still so high on the list-- otherwise you'd be in trouble XD). And wow, you're right-- so many things! May be a combination of data (my ego likes to tell me that never shutting up about Digimon helped contribute in some small way-- HAHAHA yeah right but hmm, maybe??) and the fact that millennials are calling a lot of the shots now, and everyone knows our generation is unoriginal, blinded by nostalgia, and only interested in things from our childhood, right? (KIDDING! I think our generation gets a bad rap sometimes, but the "theys" who are saying that probably don't matter much anyway XD). I think the real reason this "formula" of reboots and continuations seems to be working is that a lot of this stuff is being made by people who ACTUALLY CARE-- or at least try to capture the essence of/give new dimensions to these older franchises, and the final product isn't just being ( ... )

lelenmargyle March 27 2015, 02:40:50 UTC

Bahaha~ The entire series is on Netflix. ^o^ Actually, the husband and I watched the pilot episode of The X-Files on a whim one year around Halloween ("Oh, that old show? Okay, hmm") and we quickly fell completely in love with it. So we're an entirely new generation of fans made possible by Netflix! <3 (Seriously, Scully and Mulder are epically wonderful characters, despite the fact that they're infamous enough to have Tropes named after them ( ... )

citrus_cactus March 28 2015, 05:47:58 UTC

We uh... actually don't have Netflix right now, oops

That's a good question! I'm sure you're hitting at least some (if not all) of the nails on the head-- and the result is there definitely seems to be a trend of the people with money giving the people with pencils (er, tablet styli and word processors) more creative freedom, which means everybody wins. I suppose a lot of this discussion about "people who care" is a case of counting chickens before they hatch; even with all the right people on board, a series/movie/piece of media can still fall flat (when Futurama got un-cancelled, for example, basically all of the same writers, voice actors, and staff came back, but somehow it was never quite as funny-- at least for me), so maybe there's some element of alchemical je ne sais quoi that goes on as well. But optimism! Optimism always ( ... )