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re: The Wonder Years being rebooted with a Black family by ABC
Posted on 7/8/20 at 5:55 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Posted on 7/8/20 at 5:55 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People" would be cool.
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Posted on 7/8/20 at 5:55 pm to Tiger Voodoo
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Although many kids grew up without exposure to the struggles of feminism or even Vietnam as well. But a 100+ episode series telling a story of growing up in the 60s could have given at least one half hour to racial issues, no matter how suburbanized the focus.
Certainly fair.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 5:58 pm to TROLA
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will probably fall flat.. not bc of race but the time period... even as foreign as it seemed, the timeframe was only 20 years when I began watching the original.. I was also the same exact age as Kevin.. todays kids have absolutely no context to a time period 50+ years ago.. imagine, that’s pre ww2 for us that experienced the relevant time period of the original..
That’s actually a good point.
But it doesn’t necessarily have to be focused just towards “kids”. I know my parents loved TWY as much as me and my siblings did.
Just because Kevin was closer to our age at the time doesn’t mean my parents didn’t have their own reasons to love it.
And it can be the show that gives kids a window into that time. Hell I didn’t grow up in the 19th century but Little House on the Prairie sure as hell made me understand the time better and I could relate to those kids just the same.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 5:59 pm to Freauxzen
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The problem is, people seem to want to conflate all stories from all places, in one place, rather than just tell one story in one place.
Again, just depends on your approach. The Wonder years seemed real because it was focused. You remove it from reality more as soon as you start saying that "Everything that happened in culture has to happen in this place."
Another solid point
Posted on 7/8/20 at 6:24 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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How a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the turbulent late 1960’s, the same era as the original series,
That does not sound like a dramedy.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 6:40 pm to lsuwontonwrap
That is not a reboot of "The Wonder Years."
Posted on 7/8/20 at 6:44 pm to lsuwontonwrap
That’s great. Black Down’s syndrome kids are so funny!
Wait, is that a different reboot?
Wait, is that a different reboot?
Posted on 7/8/20 at 6:49 pm to imjustafatkid
My parents has the green '69 Ford like in the show. When they got a new '78 LTD, they sold the green Ford to the family of a black classmate. That family wired a chrome jet on as a hood ornament and added some other style points.
I bet a TV show about the black family's life would be a hell of a lot more interesting than one about our white family.
I bet a TV show about the black family's life would be a hell of a lot more interesting than one about our white family.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 7:16 pm to Jay Are
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Was it pandering every single time this show was copied over the past 30 years, or is it pandering now because Twitter exists?
Please let me know what other Black Wonder Years there have been? Seriously, because I must have missed all of those you are talking about.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 7:20 pm to Lsudx256
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That’s great. Black Down’s syndrome kids are so funny!
Wait, is that a different reboot?
You are thinking about the reboot for Life Goes On. In production under the working title “Life Goes On...Til We Meet the Po Po”
Posted on 7/8/20 at 7:33 pm to rich4pres
quote:Is television somehow incomplete w/o a black reboot of everything?
Please let me know what other Black Wonder Years there have been? Seriously, because I must have missed all of those you are talking about.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 7:42 pm to Kafka
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Is television somehow incomplete w/o a black reboot of everything?
Shouldn't they also do a white reboot of Family Matters?
Posted on 7/8/20 at 7:45 pm to SSpaniel
Loved Wonder Years.
The reboot idea is stupid.
But let's be serious for a minute...with everything happening in the country right now who wants to watch ANY show about a black family growing up in the 60s in MONTGOMERY
That entire premise just sounds like bad tv and ripe for BLM indoctrination
The reboot idea is stupid.
But let's be serious for a minute...with everything happening in the country right now who wants to watch ANY show about a black family growing up in the 60s in MONTGOMERY
That entire premise just sounds like bad tv and ripe for BLM indoctrination
Posted on 7/8/20 at 7:59 pm to lsuwontonwrap
more bullshite diversity crap i wont watch
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:03 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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growing up during the late 1960s and early '70s
Why? Who wants to watch that era anymore? Boomers are dying off, I doubt they care to watch this show.
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Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:03 pm to TROLA
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It will probably fall flat.. not bc of race but the time period... even as foreign as it seemed, the timeframe was only 20 years when I began watching the original.. I was also the same exact age as Kevin.. todays kids have absolutely no context to a time period 50+ years ago.. imagine, that’s pre ww2 for us that experienced the relevant time period of the original..
Bingo. The original show was built on the nostalgia of young adults at the time and it also tied into their kids as those kids had grown up with at least some of that music playing on record players and the shows on as re-runs in the afternoons.
This is going to end up more along the lines of a cross between a modern day Roots and Boomers trying to re-live the end of the Civil Rights era. The overall theme will be "white people bad" and when it eventually fails (whether at the end of one season or ten), the claim will be "because the US is a racist country".
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:12 pm to Bard
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overall theme will be "white people bad" and when it eventually fails (whether at the end of one season or ten), the claim will be "because the US is a racist country".
Most likely outcome.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:38 pm to lsuwontonwrap
Do we really need a race swapping reboot? Just make a black sitcom that doesn't rely on success and nostalgia from another show.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:53 pm to Twenty 49
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I bet a TV show about the black family's life would be a hell of a lot more interesting than one about our white family
This will be so focused on race that it won't be interesting at all.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 9:10 pm to ThanosIsADemocrat
Okay with the idea but to truly be good it will have to have an amazing soundtrack as well. A big part of the Wonder Years was the music. Next will be a great narrator.
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