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Idk I think Edge of Seventeen is pretty mature, to the point that I would bet adults appreciate it more than teens lol. Whereas something like the “To All The Boys...” series or John Green stuff is clearly geared more towards a teen audience

 

Yeah absolutely. Earlier in the pandemic I watched the entirety of a series I loved as a kid and it was actually really therapeutic.

 

I do that with the original Pokémon series on occasion. I don’t consider it to be a well-written show by any means and its only reason of existence was to advertise the games, but it’s soothing to watch or play in the background.

 

For escapism early in the shutdown I rewatched ABC Family’s Greek and was surprised at how well it held up. Not all of it. But for escapism I tend not to turn to kids or superhero stuff, for some reason I can get caught up in teen dramas like the OC and One Tree Hill and Greek and it’s straightforward enough that I can watch it mostly passively (I can’t watch anything completely passively, I’m always watching analytically first), and feel a weird comfort where I’m not as much thinking about how awful the world is.

 

The Saved By The Bell reboot does a great job of threading the needle of having some nostalgia for the property, but also making it its own thing (It’s much closer in tone to “30 Rock” than the original “SBTB”).

 

I don’t really see the difference between those two situations you described, though. What kid watches Smurfs out of their own personal nostalgia? The same with something like Girl Meets World or the That’s So Raven spinoff, which to a kid wouldn’t be that different from Wizards of Wavorly Place (or whatever the current wave of those shows are), but (if done right) happens to have nostalgia weaved in for any adult around while the kid watches it.

Maybe the real difference is quality (and/or marketing). If one of these doesn’t connect with current kids, then it’s a failed project, just like a kids show not based on an old property would be. But, as long as the people making the show remember to go for the right target audience, it’s fine.

 

it’s the entire southeast. otherwise completely reasonable people i went to school with in the carolinas that go to disney every year like it’s a pilgrimage

 

Its astounding.

 

If you want to see a real-world example of how this stuff infects us on a larger scale, look at the ways people talk about politics and political figures. When all of the media you consume presents the world in binary ideas of good and evil, you end up with people thinking that applies to real life. Look at the lionization of Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the nauseating "Notorious RBG" nonsense, or people making videos with Trump as Thanos and the Democratic Party as the Avengers. This might seem trivial, but every time someone criticizes Biden you see the defense that he isn't Trump. They do it with Harry Potter, Star Wars, or anything else. They still won't admit major wrongdoings of the Obama Administration because he is the "good guy" in their shallow analysis.

 

I live within an hour of the theme parks. I know multiple people who have called Disney World their home.

 

The West Wing certainly didnt help either

 

i used to live in that area. very familiar with people with that mindset. i was shocked to find that it stretches out multiple states away.

 

The farther away you get the worse it is. When i was in Denver there was a coworker that would go to Disney annually.

 

Crazy adult Disney people freak me out.

 

It’s really bad in Arizona as well with Disneyland being in the next state over. Lots of big white families here that would die for the mouse

 

in California or all the way to Florida?

 

As and adult Looney Tunes fan, I look down my nose at adult Disney fans

 

I lived in Orlando next to Disney for 6 years and knew people who worked there. Even went on a date with a Disney fanatic to Disney. AMA.

 

i don't have anything to ask you

 

I went to Disney World when I was like 10 and then a couple years later my parents had to go to Florida for something else and decided it'd be a "get two birds stoned at once" kinda thing and take us to Disney World for vacation again... I didn't care to go back in the slightest.

Crazy to me that people (adults) go annually (or even more often)

 

Def afraid of Disney fanatics. Surprised by the amount of friends I follow who were straight up distraught over not being able to go to Disneyland these past 9 months. I go to Disneyland like once every 3 years lol.

 

I think the difference is the marketing -- that the whole point of a Fuller House reboot was that it was marketed towards nostalgic adults. It's very much a matter of being like "All your favorite classic characters and lines are back!" Just look at this trailer lol

Whereas, to keep the Smurfs comparison going, you can watch this trailer and be an adult familiar with the cartoon and understand all the references, but it also works on a level that, for a kid, there's no need to know the original

 

FLORIDA.

 

Yeah the better option (artistically lol) is to do this -- make it functionally a meta parody of the original, like The Brady Bunch movies. Never watched it but I believe the Dora the Explorer movie from last year kinda does the same thing, though it is still a kids movie

 

It reminds me of when they brought the original Power Rangers to Netflix in 2011 or so. A friend was excited to watch it again. It isn't really for a new generation. It is like a band that is long past their prime but still touring and doing the hits.