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Old 11-14-2012, 12:13 AM   #1
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Hollywood remake of Tomorrow People

http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/greg...morrow-people/

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Old 11-14-2012, 12:25 AM   #2
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I don't know. I think it could not suck. I liked original Tomorrow People but even as a kid I thought the basic concept could have been done a lot better. On the other hand I pretend the 90s remake never happened.
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Old 11-14-2012, 05:15 AM   #5
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I kind of agree. I liked the show as a kid, but as an adult, I realized that it could have been a lot better. I wouldn't even want to watch it now.
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Old 11-14-2012, 05:22 AM   #6
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I used to love the show as a kid (they showed it on Nickelodeon in the US back in the early 80s) but I think it's one of those things that was super cool when I was a kid because I didn't realize how "not actually great" it was. Nostalgia seems to sometimes make things cooler than they deserve. Except Danger Mouse. It's still cool.

However, I'm not too keen on Hollywood ruining yet another one of my treasures from childhood. It's bad enough that they destroyed The Karate Kid and Footloose. They don't need to crap on TTP, especially not on The CW, which has already rebooted and destroyed 90210, another iconic show from my childhood.
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A lot of what we remembered as being great as kids was never that good to begin with. It hasn't really been "ruined."
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Old 11-14-2012, 02:10 PM   #9
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Why not? It's not like they'd be ruining anything. The original series was tosh, more-or-less.
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True, but The Karate Kid and Footloose were both awesome and the remakes were crap in comparison.

The fact the it's being developed for The CW doesn't fill me with much hope that the reboot will be good. Only TV reboot of an old franchise that I can think of that was successful (and much better than the original) is Battlestar Galactica.
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True, but The Karate Kid and Footloose were both awesome and the remakes were crap in comparison.

The fact the it's being developed for The CW doesn't fill me with much hope that the reboot will be good. Only TV reboot of an old franchise that I can think of that was successful (and much better than the original) is Battlestar Galactica.
Ooh, that's a hopeful thought. The old Battlestar Galactica was pretty rubbishy. When one starts from something that bad the remake can be no worse and is likely to be somewhat better. The same holds for The Tomorrow People.

I wonder if the's going to be more rummaging through cheesy old cult TV. Electrawoman and Dynagirl, anybody?
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I watched a clip from The Tomorrow People on YouTube recently. It hasn't aged well. I loved it as a kid. I still want one of those jaunt belts!
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True, but The Karate Kid and Footloose were both awesome and the remakes were crap in comparison.
I don't remember the Karate Kid, but when I watched Footloose years later, I was embarassed that I used to like it. I'm sure the remake is crap, but it's not as if Footloose was Casablanca, and remaking it would be blasphemy.

Something like The Tomorrow People could be interesting if it were remade because, even though it hadn't aged well, there was always something there that was interesting. It could be made into something cool.
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