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Tag: Reboot

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The Homage is Not Enough: on the Limits of Nostalgia-First Narratives

13 Mar 201814 Mar 2018
In the summer of 2016 everyone started telling me that I had to watch a show called Stranger Things. I was reluctant. The reluctance came from the way it was…
2016…

The World Needs Bad Men: How the Bush Era Caused the Anti-Hero Wave that Gave Rise to Trump

22 Jan 201722 Apr 2018
Toward the finale of the 2016 election, Mike Huckabee took to Fox News to give a defense of Donald Trump that I’ve been mulling over in my head ever since.…
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Please, No More Origin Stories of How Evil Villains Used to be Good Guys or Children

17 Oct 201517 Oct 2015
If you haven't heard, the latest complete failure at the box office was the flaccid reboot Pan, an attempt to create a franchise out of the Peter Pan story by starting…
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Why Bale Should Kill James Bond

12 Jul 201116 Mar 2018
Do you read The AV Club?  If not, it's the sister publication to The Onion, self-described as "the web's smartest take on TV, film, music, and lots more."  Which nicely…
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Mr. Potter

22 Feb 201122 Oct 2011
The fact that Spiderman is currently being rebooted proves that it is never too soon to start a franchise over from scratch. One might point out that Spiderman's reboot (the…

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