ABC Passes on Greatest American Hero Remake

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to feature “the first brown female superhero on TV.”

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Why is that such a big deal, especially with her.

She is half Indian and half various flavors of Europe. How brown is she really?

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In all fairness the original series should have never made it to television anyway.

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I do not use the word "brave" often, but I applaud you for standing up for yourself.

(Seriously, I was never a fan of the original series. I never got why people loved it, other than the catchy theme song.)

The original show was a fun and unique concept. I enjoyed the casting and some of the plots, and the fact that they were actually pretty smart about some things.

I remember later in the series, our guy gets elected to the House of Representatives from the DC area (I think he was a liberal teacher or social worker); some foriegn terrorist kidnaps him and tries to leverage him-
"you must be important, since you're from Washington DC". His reaction was- "wait, you think being elected from the DC area means I have connections? Hahahahaha!!! I'm representing a poor ghetto area, most of the other congressmen don't even know my first name, you moron"

I also remember an episode where he goes "undercover" on a baseball team as a pitcher for some reason, and refused to use the suit- "Nope, don't need it. I got a changeup"... and of course got rocked

The problems with remaking the show would be multiple- you likely wouldn't have a lot of the more self-aware humor, especially with a woman. They'd depict her as "super", because fems would rant if she was bumbling. And that would defeat the overall theme, which was "jeez, I have no fricking clue what I'm doing here".

Also, the entertainment market (movies and TV) is saturated with name-brand superheroes right now. The Greatest American Hero, Hancock, G Girl etc- they're generic knockoffs. We don't have room for them.