The year was 2015. Like many fans of the original series -- this series -- I was glued to my TV at the thought that the series was to be rebooted. Rebooting was clearly not impossible. They rebooted X-Files successfully (although with a strangely sardonic vibe). So, like millions around the world, I watched, and as episode ran after episode, I was gob-smacked at how wretched, how terrible, the reboot was.
I wrote IMDb reviews on the reboot trying to point this fact out as if (I knew better) my reviews could get the producers and writers back on course. But it was too late. The reboot died under its own fetid weight and all I had for my trouble was a phalanx of "not useful" hits at the reviews I had offered.
In my reviews of the reboot, "go buy the DVDs of the original," I said time after time to the children who were trying to see the good bits in the reboot. Like the story of the optimist's daughter who is taken to a room full of manure and jumps for joy, yelling, "With all this poop, there has to be a pony here somewhere!" That is the problem with younger people since the beginning of time -- they think the world began when they did.
In any case, I took my own advice and got the original from Amazon. Just finished episode 1. NOW THAT IS HOW TO START A SERIES! Present one interesting character after another, with great tight dialog, and a background message that makes you think.
Perfect opener! I have never seen better.
I wrote IMDb reviews on the reboot trying to point this fact out as if (I knew better) my reviews could get the producers and writers back on course. But it was too late. The reboot died under its own fetid weight and all I had for my trouble was a phalanx of "not useful" hits at the reviews I had offered.
In my reviews of the reboot, "go buy the DVDs of the original," I said time after time to the children who were trying to see the good bits in the reboot. Like the story of the optimist's daughter who is taken to a room full of manure and jumps for joy, yelling, "With all this poop, there has to be a pony here somewhere!" That is the problem with younger people since the beginning of time -- they think the world began when they did.
In any case, I took my own advice and got the original from Amazon. Just finished episode 1. NOW THAT IS HOW TO START A SERIES! Present one interesting character after another, with great tight dialog, and a background message that makes you think.
Perfect opener! I have never seen better.