Reboots

[Fluttershutter 2,952]

What do you think of them? To be clear by reboot I mean using the same name and some of the same character names as an earlier show but telling a differnet but similar story.

 

Generally I think they're horrible and lazy and ruin the legacy of the original but there are exceptions:

MLP FIM and MYM/TYT obviously

Battlestar Galactica 2003

Thundercats 2011

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

[Xada 526]

They usualy suck but can be good on occasion.

[Snoopy Fan 8,635]

Here are some that I like:

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)

DuckTales (2017)

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

Carmen Sandiego (2019)

[Fluttershutter 2,952]

12 minutes ago, Snoopy Fan said:

Here are some that I like:

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)

DuckTales (2017)

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

Carmen Sandiego (2019)

Oh right. So many TMNT shows I didn't think of that. I still haven't watched Ducktales 2017. 

[Megas 28,132]

They can be good and I don't think they should be written off but more often than not they drop the ball.

For every DOOM 2016 you get 2 DmCs

For every TMNT 2012 you get 2 Thundercats Roar

and etc

[Tao 8,948]

Hhmmmmm

TMNT 2012 was not that bad as the story went along,  it got better in truth.   

She-Ra and Princess of Power I did come to like about the 2ed season.

2011 Thundercats,  I knew would have been good given the chance to keep going.  

Sailor Moon Crystal follows the manga..so 10/10 for me.   

Some reboots can work depending on how they choose to make them and how to let them play out.  Others have just been trash to a point....

[Fluttershutter 2,952]

On 2025-02-20 at 8:09 AM, Megas said:

For every TMNT 2012 you get 2 Thundercats Roar

I've heard of Thundercats Roar but I deny it's existence.

12 hours ago, Tao said:

Sailor Moon Crystal follows the manga..so 10/10 for me.   

Yeah, like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood I wouldn't really consider it a reboot if they're just following the soiurce material more closely.

[Artshine Aura 43]

i honestly dont hate reboots as much as others. infact im pretty lenient on how many changes they make (which now that i think of it is probably the result of me being an mlp fan). i just want the rebooted new piece of media to be good while not *totally* losing everything that made the original piece of media itself. typically im just excited to see a new and interesting take on something i like (again, as long as its good.)

i should probably also mention though, that i havent kept up with many of the more recent reboots people complain about. aside from the new fairly oddparents which i really liked x3

Edited February 22 by Artshine Aura

[Tao 8,948]

29 minutes ago, Fluttershutter said:

 

Yeah, like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood I wouldn't really consider it a reboot if they're just following the soiurce material more closely.

I mean I can agree a bit,  but still, as a SM fan it was nice and I love both FMA'S for different reasons.  

[OverTheStars 319]

I have sort of complex feelings about reboots. Some franchises like Transformers, MLP, He-Man, etc. lend themselves to getting reboot, they change to appeal to kids of the time and still explore new ideas. I do like a lot of reboots, and I think that sometimes you'll enjoy a reboot more if you don't compare it to the source material as much.

Maybe it's the intentions behind the reboot that affect it? Like with something like She-Ra, it feels like it was rebooted with a genuine care and interest in the franchise. There are a lot of differences, but I get the feeling that whoever made it had some amount of care for it. With the Disney live action reboots, it feels like most if not all are just cash grabs to milk as much money as possible from old franchises so they don't have to put effort into anything new or creative. They aren't being made to appeal to modern kids, because the original movies still do a perfectly good job of that, their only purpose is to just make more money. Plus it just makes me sad as someone who loves animation and would rather see that than a soulless CGI recreation  (not bashing CGI entirely obvs).

It's not that reboots are bad, it just depends a lot on the crew working on it and how much effort is put in as well as why they're being made in the first place.

[Antiyonder 1,400]

Also to add is the recently ended Strawberry Shortcake Berry in the Big City.

Basically SB's equivalent to FiM.  And it's legally free to watch on YT, so get to watching.😁

[Longhaul 8,469]

In all honesty, rebooting a series or a movie is a risky gambit at best.  To me, no matter how faithful they are to the original, they lack that certain spark that made the original great in the first place.  I've seen some real good reboots, don't get me wrong, but you could tell that someone else is putting their spin on it and that makes it stray away from the original in that regard.  

[Dreambiscuit 11,335]

I can think of countless instances where reboots were an epic fail, but none that were an improvement. I wanted to cite MLP G4 as a good example of improvement but it isn’t really a reboot so much as a continuation. Actually I’m surprised I can’t think of a single good reboot of the top of my head right now. I’m sure there must be something somewhere but nothing comes to mind.

[Fluttershutter 2,952]

15 hours ago, Dreambiscuit said:

I can think of countless instances where reboots were an epic fail, but none that were an improvement. I wanted to cite MLP G4 as a good example of improvement but it isn’t really a reboot so much as a continuation. Actually I’m surprised I can’t think of a single good reboot of the top of my head right now. I’m sure there must be something somewhere but nothing comes to mind.

Is it really a continuation? G5 is clearly a continuation of G4 and it tried to pull in G1 as a cartoon in the show but I'd say G4 is a reboot of the older stuff. The first couple of episodes take a lot from Escape From Midnight Caste.

[Dreambiscuit 11,335]

2 hours ago, Fluttershutter said:

Is it really a continuation? G5 is clearly a continuation of G4 and it tried to pull in G1 as a cartoon in the show but I'd say G4 is a reboot of the older stuff. The first couple of episodes take a lot from Escape From Midnight Caste.

You’re right. Continuation isn’t the right choice of words; it is more of a reboot come to think of it, because it even uses some of the same characters (with very different personalities) and there are other similarities as you mentioned. So on that basis I’ll go ahead and cite MLP G4 as one reboot that really scores.

[Sparklefan1234 180,763]

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is my favorite cartoon show of all-time and it's a reboot!😁

[Pentium100 2,299]

I don't particularly care. If the reboot is good, I'll watch it, if it's bad, then I won't. A bad reboot or sequel would not ruin the original show for me. I can still watch the original, nobody is going to take it away from me.

[Fluttershutter 2,952]

5 hours ago, Pentium100 said:

I don't particularly care. If the reboot is good, I'll watch it, if it's bad, then I won't. A bad reboot or sequel would not ruin the original show for me. I can still watch the original, nobody is going to take it away from me.

I still say bad reboots ruin the legacy of the original. That's why superhero comics have no impact to me. Superman dies? So what? He'll be rebooted within a year.

Then if you want to talk about that kind of thing with people you have to establish which version you're talking about.

[Pentium100 2,299]

12 hours ago, Fluttershutter said:

That's why superhero comics have no impact to me. Superman dies? So what? He'll be rebooted within a year.

I am not really interested in superheros, so I do not know much about them. Still, the only reason they would show the main character dying is if they can somehow resurrect him, otherwise the series would just end and nobody wants to end a popular series. 

Just like how Arthur Conan Doyle had to bring back Sherlock Holmes because fans asked for it (even though AFAIK, he really intended to end the series and write about something else, even if it meant less money for him). 

I guess if there are a lot of reboots of the same thing, it could get confusing, but I am reading about the attempts to reboot Babylon 5 (one of my favorite series) and if the reboot happens and it is great, awesome, if it sucks, well, I can still watch the original. 

[Fluttershutter 2,952]

1 hour ago, Pentium100 said:

I am not really interested in superheros, so I do not know much about them. Still, the only reason they would show the main character dying is if they can somehow resurrect him, otherwise the series would just end and nobody wants to end a popular series. 

Just like how Arthur Conan Doyle had to bring back Sherlock Holmes because fans asked for it (even though AFAIK, he really intended to end the series and write about something else, even if it meant less money for him). 

I guess if there are a lot of reboots of the same thing, it could get confusing, but I am reading about the attempts to reboot Babylon 5 (one of my favorite series) and if the reboot happens and it is great, awesome, if it sucks, well, I can still watch the original. 

A Babylon 5 reboot will be a travesty, I pray it never happens, at least not in my lifetime.

Sherlock Holmes, at least he brought him back rather than rebooting him.

[Pentium100 2,299]

On 2025-08-05 at 8:49 AM, Fluttershutter said:

A Babylon 5 reboot will be a travesty, I pray it never happens, at least not in my lifetime.

I quite liked the animated movie. I hope the reboot happens. If it sucks, I can just ignore it and rewatch the original again, but there is a chance it may be good.

[Fluttershutter 2,952]

7 hours ago, Pentium100 said:

I quite liked the animated movie.

Not a reboot but I thought it was pretty disappointing,

7 hours ago, Pentium100 said:

but there is a chance it may be good.

No there isn't.

[Pentium100 2,299]

2 hours ago, Fluttershutter said:

Not a reboot but I thought it was pretty disappointing,

I quite liked it, it was worth the money I paid for the bluray.

2 hours ago, Fluttershutter said:

No there isn't.

Then nothing changes. Nobody is taking the original from my file server and I can ignore the new one if it sucks.

[Fluttershutter 2,952]

7 hours ago, Pentium100 said:

Then nothing changes. Nobody is taking the original from my file server and I can ignore the new one if it sucks.

Then there are a whole bunch of people who know nothing but the terrible reboot and get their whole idea of the property from it. Damages it's whole legacy.