Who doesn't want a do-over? It's time to re-evaluate the art of the reboot
If there’s something that gets a bad rap entirely unfairly, it’s reboots. On the one hand, I can understand why some people dislike the very idea of starting over so much — for those who’ve fallen so deeply in love with one version of an idea, a character, or a story, it could feel as if that thing is being criticized by the very concept of coming up with an alternative, especially if that alternative means that the version you love will go away as a result. That’s a difficult thing to deal with; the comic book fan in me still struggles with those feelings of mild confusion and potential censure when DC rebooted entirely into The New 52, and that was more than a decade ago as you read these words, after all.
Beyond that, there’s also a sense of… loss might be too strong a term, but it almost fits; not only for the version of the story/character/idea that is being replaced by the rebooted version, but for the time the audience has invested in that version, which some see as being zeroed out and invalidated as soon as the reboot takes effect. (Not me; I’m all-too-aware of how much of my life I spent on the original Legion of Super-Heroes, and I regret not one second of it. If only I could say the same about the hours I wasted watching the original version of Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980 when I was a kid and they were on in reruns on Saturdays.) Nonetheless: when something is rebooted, things change, and that can be a problem for any number of people for any number of reasons. It only makes sense that such a thing could be seen as a bad thing, bearing all of that in mind.
That said: reboots are amazing.
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