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Ray Romano Says Reviving ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ Is ‘Out of the Question’: Reboots Are ‘Never as Good’ (variety.com)

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Strong disagree

Going by modern nomenclature, Frasier was a "reboot" of Cheers and Family Matters was a "reboot" of Perfect Strangers (and the first season or two had some REALLY good epsides). Or, to go by more inarguable standards: it isn't my thing, but The Connors is uniformly praised and is the best that "Roseanne" has been since they stopped caring about being about working class families.

At the end of the day: it is a question of whether the character work of the original was strong enough and if there is a story worth telling with the reboot/spinoff/whatever.

And considering Everybody Loves Raymond didn't even have a solid story for the original run and had an even more unlikable protagonist than Tim "The Narcman" Taylor...

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 11 months ago

Going by modern nomenclature, Frasier was a “reboot” of Cheers

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Frasier was a spin-off.

Family Matters was a “reboot” of Perfect Strangers

This makes even less sense. Family Matters and Perfect Strangers aired concurrently. This is like saying Angel the series was a reboot of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.