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Originally Posted by pwalker8
My issue with remakes is that they rarely are able to capture whatever it was that made the original a success. They really are different shows with the same basic premise and happen to have the same name. If you expect the same experience, then you are likely to be disappointed. Sequels frequently have the same issue.
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Yes, I agree. The
Perry Mason reboot or remake or whatever the hell Hollyweird is calling it--you know, the show itself is fine. But calling it
Perry Mason is, IMHO, absurd. It's like they had an idea for a show and tried to figure out how to sell it, so they suddenly seized on the idea "hey, I know, we'll call it a
Perry Mason prequel! That'll sell!"
I can watch it and even enjoy it--as long as I have a constant drumbeat in the back of my head saying "no, this isn't
Perry Mason." And no, for me, it's not even having seen every episode of Raymond Burr as Perry, etc. (although that wreaks havoc with it, too); it's having
read the novels.
You can't really reconcile that Perry--the Perry of the books--with this Perry, this rather
contemptible wreck.
I fail to see how the new
Magnum could recapture that perfect zeitgeist magic that the original had. I mean, hell, let's remake
Miami Vice, too. LOL. Maybe we can soundtrack it with manufactured boy bands!
Hitch