{"id":3609,"date":"2015-04-02T16:45:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/television-of-tomorrow-shows-of-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:15","slug":"television-of-tomorrow-shows-of-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/television-of-tomorrow-shows-of-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Television of Tomorrow = Shows of Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of making anything new, television of the future will simply rehash the shows of the past. It&#8217;s sad that creativity has been put to the wayside to accommodate laziness and a lack of anything good.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix is making &#8220;Fuller House,&#8221; a &#8220;Full House&#8221; spinoff featuring DJ and Kimmy. I don&#8217;t know, maybe it will be awesome to someone, but in my opinion it&#8217;ll probably be terrible&#8211;definitely not something I&#8217;d care to watch. I mean, DJ was not the main attraction of the original show. And Kimmy was just there so Danny could verbally abuse a child that wasn&#8217;t his own.<\/p>\n<p>Take &#8220;Boy Meets World&#8221; for example. Why did I love it as a kid? Because of the epic friendship between Shawn and Cory. The whole Topanga thing just kind of happened, their relationship and marriage took over, and I wasn&#8217;t too sad to see the show end. (Though I feel awful that Shawn went camping with those people and ended up getting that disgusting flesh eating bacteria. He should have known to boil his water&#8211;didn&#8217;t Mr. Matthews work at a sporting goods store?)<\/p>\n<p>And now they&#8217;re going to be rebooting &#8220;Coach,&#8221; &#8220;Twin Peaks,&#8221; and there&#8217;s an &#8220;X-Files&#8221; mini-series in the works. It just makes me go &#8220;Ugh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interesting and fun shows like &#8220;Almost Human,&#8221; &#8220;Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles,&#8221; and &#8220;Bad Judge&#8221; get cancelled. And shows we only watched because there was nothing better on in the nineties get rebooted.<\/p>\n<p>Gee thanks TV. Thanks for failing us once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of making anything new, television of the future will simply rehash the shows of the past. It&#8217;s sad that creativity has been put to the wayside to accommodate laziness and a lack of anything good. Netflix is making &#8220;Fuller House,&#8221; a &#8220;Full House&#8221; spinoff featuring DJ and Kimmy. I don&#8217;t know, maybe it will&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/television-of-tomorrow-shows-of-yesterday\/\" title=\"Television of Tomorrow = Shows of Yesterday\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Television of Tomorrow = Shows of Yesterday<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kindled"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-Wd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5729,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/goobler\/","url_meta":{"origin":3609,"position":0},"title":"Goobler","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"March 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"So... the kitchen sink has been acting like a real bitch for the last week or so. 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