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rebooting for fun and profit

rose_griffes: hand-written text: "Once upon a time" (once upon a time)
Monday, April 22nd, 2019 07:02 pm
[community profile] questionoftheday asks: Has a series you cherished in your childhood ever gotten a reboot that disappointed you? How about impressed you?

My answer:
First question: I will undoubtedly think of some new adaptation that I hated as soon as I click the post button. But for the moment all I can think of is Battlestar Galactica, and the reboot of it was awesome. In fact, I recommend leaving the original series back in nostalgia territory, unwatched; I tried a few minutes of an episode and came to that emphatic decision in a very short amount of time.

What happens most often with reboots: either A) I didn't watch the original anyway, or B) for whatever reason the reboot didn't interest me enough to even try watching. So I'm sure I'm missing out on lots of chances to hate a show or movie. I can and do them superfluous without watching, but we all do that. Right?

(Most frequent unwatched target of my "this is superfluous" commentary: all of the live-action Spider-Man movies made since the third and final one starring Tobey Maguire.)
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QoD and a Netflix show

rose_griffes: batman: "Despite all my rage, I'm still just a bat in a cave" (bat in a cave)
Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 07:57 pm
[community profile] questionoftheday asks: Have you ever broken the law before? Was is a major or minor infraction? Did you get away with it?

My answer: I mean... there's the constant driving over the speed limit. I honestly can't think of anything other than similar 'small' things, like sometimes procrastinating getting my car inspection tag updated. (Not a good life choice, but not exactly arrest warrant material. As a white woman in the US, my chances of suffering any major consequence during that month or two when I've neglected to get the tag updated are small.)

I accidentally started a new show, even though I have plenty of other things I'm planning to start / continue watching. The Umbrella Academy is one of Netflix's newest offerings. The cast is pretty stellar. Ellen Page is onscreen a lot! Mary J. Blige has a minor role!

There are two things that detract a bit from the fun: ( not really spoilery, but if you're a purist of some kind and don't want to know anything else, don't click here )
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