The folks over at Lifehacker.Com hate reboots as much as everybody else does, but, also like everybody else, they acknowledge that some reboots, you know, work. Like these:
We say we hate reboots. We’ll happily go on and on about how we’d much rather have something newer, fresher, more original. And yet—remakes and re-dos remain reliably big business.
Shout out to Donavan Freberg, whose Facebook musings continually inspire all of us here at TVWriter™. Case in point:
Gotta love the New Reality.
It makes writing the words
Heard in the TVWriter™ Online Writers Room (AKA the dedicated Zoom URL I use for my Master Classes):
I’m trying to watch as many of the new streaming sitcoms as I can, but there’s a problem. No matter how intelligent and clever they may be, instead of making me laugh, many of the shows upset me.
Yer ever-lovin’ munchequestrian sure hopes they were.
To put it another way:
Bub, but, but, what about Freedom of Speech? Damn!
Bang2Write has all the basic moves for selling your screenplay racheer. Although yer friendly neighborhood munchalorian is thinking that the one they make #3 might actually be about 60 or maybe 600 times as important as the rest of ’em.
Just sayin’.