Current Events > diversity remake > shake 'em up remake

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I'm talking reboots like Rise of the TMNT which randomly change character roles and personalities.

If Batman becomes a black man, it's still the same story. But if Batman is a gun-toting rulebreaker who works for Alfred, Joker is his friendly rival, and Nightwing is an Asian girl who literally has wings, that's shit. The same goes for something like James Bond. I wouldn't be altogether happy to see him as a bisexual, but I'd like that a lot more than making Felix Leiter a millionaire millennial and Moneypenny a terrorist mastermind.

When you change a character's demographic, the story can still work. When you change the story up for change's sake, there is no story. It's only an adaptation in the sense that you legally have the rights to stamp that story's title on what you've put together.

So why did SJWs complain about ScarJo in Ghost in the Shell?
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Both types of reboots tend to be low effort and not enjoyable.

There are some cases where changing the character's race is fine (like Michael Clarke Duncan was the one good thing about Dare Devil) but I haven't seen an example where it works out when it's done intentionally for diversity's sake.
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DifferentialEquation posted...

Both types of reboots tend to be low effort and not enjoyable.

I'll take it a step further and just say that reboots in general tend to be low-effort and bad.

There's an infinite bank of ideas out there, and you look at something that already exists and think, 'I'll just do that again."
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