My Life In Fandom: Don't Trust Reboots, Even By The Creator

The leading Hispanic voice in Science Fiction, Jon del Arroz, has this to say about yet another reboot.

I can reduce the reason it will be a shitshow to one sentance: the showrunner got the Brain Eater and it's ruined his ability to create.

Nevermind the bitterness he still holds over the original's production, or how many of the original cast are dead now (and many still alive are more-or-less retired), the man himself has said on the record that he intends to take the one thing that made him famous and culturally relevant and mutilate it to satisfy his obsessions.

In other words, for all the talent he had at his command in the 1990s, it is clear now that he--like George Lucas--only got where he did because of his collaborators restraining him from acting on his bad ideas and disordered thoughts. His pattern of failure after his peak shows this to be true, following him wherever he went, and we all know the saying about the common element in someone that consistently runs into the same problems.

This reboot will suck harder than a black hole, and the creator will explosively waste what goodwill he yet has coping with its failure, and I just don't want to witness such a pitiable display of folly. I remember the man that was, when he would post to the moderated Usenet group back in the day, and this just makes me sad. That time came and went; I've moved on, and he should too. He did blow the place up as deliberate (peacetime) demolition at the end specifically to get that point across; he just could not accept it himself.

Thus I see no reason to give this reboot any attention. Note that I have avoided naming the man or the show; that's me avoiding outrage marketing as best I can while talking about this. After this post, I see no reason to give it any further attention; into #BrandZero it goes. The 90s series, flawed as it is, remains a classic that paved the way for TV serial storytelling that persists to this day in all genres in the mainstream American entertainment business; you wouldn't have some shows that people rave about with out it paving the way.