{"id":134,"date":"2008-03-14T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T20:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2008-03-14T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T20:11:28","slug":"tv-deja-vu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"TV Deja Vu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up, my list of favorite drama\/action\u00a0TV shows were something like this-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bionic Man<\/li>\n<li>Battlestar Galactica<\/li>\n<li>Knight Rider<\/li>\n<li>Airwolf<\/li>\n<li>Simon and Simon\/Magnum PI<\/li>\n<li>Miami Vice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now when I turn on the tele, instead of reruns I see reimagined versions of Bionic Woman, Battlestar Galactica, and now Knight Rider.\u00a0 In the theatres, we had movie versions of The Dukes of Hazzard, Miami Vice, and Starsky and Hutch&#8230; and in an interesting reversal there&#8217;s the made for TV Terminator- Sarah Conner Chronicles and I believe an upcoming Star Wars series.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that we&#8217;re running out of creativity, and simply rehashing old ideas, or are TV shows like fashion- acid wash jeans and pastel colors get recycled after a couple of generations when everyone has forgotten what a bad idea they were in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>It seems\u00a0odd to me to see the same shows appear on\u00a0TV again.\u00a0 I have\u00a0happy childhood memories\u00a0of the\u00a0originals,\u00a0so\u00a0why do they need to bring the shows back to try the formula again?\u00a0\u00a0For whatever reason, the remakes are often shadows of the original.\u00a0 Sorry, but Starsky and Hutch was a joke, I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to see Dukes of Hazzard, and Miami Vice was just ok, but\u00a0none lived up to the original.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I\u00a0thought that the reimagination of Battlestar\u00a0Galactica was waaay better than the original&#8230; once you got past the\u00a0fact that Starbuck is now a girl.\u00a0 Likewise with \u00a0Terminator- I actually really like it- it&#8217;s clever and they&#8217;ve put a new spin on it.\u00a0 I hope it gets renewed.<\/p>\n<p>As for the new Knight Rider and Bionic woman.\u00a0 Boooring.\u00a0 I hope the old Kitt comes out of retirement and shows the new Kitt some old school moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up, my list of favorite drama\/action\u00a0TV shows were something like this- Bionic Man Battlestar Galactica Knight Rider Airwolf Simon and Simon\/Magnum PI Miami Vice Now when I turn on the tele, instead of reruns I see reimagined versions of Bionic Woman, Battlestar Galactica, and now Knight Rider.\u00a0 In the theatres, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}