Shows you don't want to come back - Let a good thing rest

Babylon 5. Like OP said it's finished and it was borderline perfect, almost all the actors are dead, and I don't trust a single person not even MJS to reboot it.
I would say FLCL but the morons already made a second and third season which was probably the only reboot/continuation I knew I wouldn't watch no matter what the critical and fan consensus would be. It could be heralded as the second coming of christ and I wouldn't watch it out of fear of it damaging my experience with the original.
 
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Honestly, I do not want more Frasier. I love the series, I don't want to see it butchered.

Hey Arnold is another series I don't want ruined. The Jungle Movie was the perfect ending, just let the Football Head move on.

The older Cartoon Network shows they haven't ruined yet (i.e., Dexter's Laboratory; Johnny Bravo; Ed, Edd, n' Eddy; etc.). They've already ruined PPG once and they're about to ruin it again.
 
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I've been re-watching rocket power which was one of my childhood shows. Some would say it's a product of its time and I admit it is, a perfect shadow of the late 90s extreme sports craze but in some ways that's kinda why I like going back to it.

With the rugrats reboot coming out I really hope Viacom and paramount plus doesn't care about something as old and semi obscure as rocket power to let it r.i.p.
 
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Pretty much any 80's or 90's cartoons. They change the designs of the characters to look unrecognizable. I understand wanting to update the design but its all so samey. I think Rainbow Brite or My Little Pony are definitely cuter in their original forms. Something about the modern designs end up always looking either dull and generic or is that ugly "CalArts" style that they insist on shoving down everyone's throats.
 
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The latest 'reinvention' of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was absolute cancer. I caught just a very short bit of an episode and it's easy to get why the reboot ended early. The 2003 series is the best version of that IP, even better than the 80s-90s series.

I also don't get what they were thinking with the Duck Tales reboot. Ugly, jagged art style way below typical Disney standard unlike the original, a favorite of mine from when I was a kid, which looked and sounded almost as good as anything Disney would have put out on the big screen.
 
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I'm also worried about King of the Hill, for obvious reasons.

I don't think it would ever happen, but I'd shudder to think what would happen to Space Ghost, either the Hanna-Barbera original getting turned into boring and/or woke capeshit, or a new version of Coast to Coast becoming cringy, with shit guests that instead of mocking, they take seriously.

The Office US. People for some reason really want it to come back, despite the fact that it got worse with every season and had an official ending. People don't realize it wouldn't be anywhere close to the same show as it once was, either.
 
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Unless you can somehow get the original writers and directors and producers back, anything, and I mean everything, in the old should be left in the past and not touched and ignore the spergs that sperg about how things back in the day were better which when listened to would lead us to what we fucking have right now with this tired nostalgia-pandering, and I'm saying this as someone who loved old shit.

But then again, Butch Hartman is gonna be involved in the Fairly OddParents live action reboot so I don't know anymore, might as well let the past be in the past and if you want to make something new, make a new IP and once again ignore the nostalgia spergs.
 
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They can work, but it's a tough needle to thread. An example of a reboot working was the 2011 Beavis and Butthead reboot - but that was more like a restart, it was almost like the show had never ended. It fit seamlessly with the original 90s episodes, which is why they were pretty well regarded.
 
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Blackadder. They keep talking about reviving it, but most of the cast are in their 60s and 70s if not deceased. They did a one-off for the Millennium and frankly it was shit.
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Blackadder was one of those shows that worked at the time, but probably wouldn't work today. I'm not sure if it's because comedic tastes have changed, or more to do with the way that television as a medium has shifted, but I don't think the modern medium of television lends itself quite so well to campy sitcoms, for whatever reason.

I'd add Only Fools and Horses to the list of shows which probably wouldn't work today. I'd also add Mr. Bean, although mostly just because the character seems to grow creepier the older Rowan Atkinson gets.
 
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The Office US. People for some reason really want it to come back, despite the fact that it got worse with every season and had an official ending. People don't realize it wouldn't be anywhere close to the same show as it once was, either.
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I am absolutely on board with this. One of the main strengths the show had was when it focused on the petty and mundane office drama most people go through and the often weird and strange people we work with. It's other main strength was Steve Carroll as Michael Gary Scott, the character we all tuned in to watch his antics and screwups.

I don't even know where you could go with a reboot as all the main actors are mostly doing bigger and better things and a remake would simply just fail as it would be the equal of doing a community play version of The Office with everyone just being a cheap knock-off of the characters we know.

Though the show I'd choose is My Name is Earl, they'd probably turn Earl into some bigot that has to overcome his hate or some shit like that, Randy would probably be a closeted transvestite, Joy would be seen as an empowering character, and Crabman would be seen as more cool than he actually is.
 
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The Paranoid Organ said:
Stargate needs to be spared and let sleep for a decade or so. Thankfully MGM cant get their shit together.
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SG-1 should have ended with them fishing in the lake. Atlantis should have gotten the attention after that. It's too bad they put SG-1 in the shitter, canceled Atlantis, and then whatever-the-everloving-fuck Universe was.

As for my opinion, Wipeout. Anderson/Henson were the best duo for that show.
 
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Battlestar Galactica. NBC wants to make another show but none of the cast and crew of Moore's BSG are involved. It will probably be the "Kurtzman Trek" of Galactica.

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Firefly. Apparently Disney is working on doing a family friendly reboot for Disney+. Even leaving aside the fact Joss Whedon is in the middle of being #cancelled right now, this is a terrible idea. A big part of what made Firefly work as a story was the morally gray (sometimes very dark gray) behavior of its main characters. Turning it into a clean cut family comedy show would be entirely missing the point.
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Yeah, I was done with Firefly after Serenity. What they did in the movie wasn't what I had in mind when I was watching the show. Turning River into a generic Strong Whedon Female Protagonist was really dumb.

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Stargate needs to be spared and let sleep for a decade or so. Thankfully MGM cant get their shit together.
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Brad Wright is working on a new spin-off.

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SG-1 should have ended with them fishing in the lake. Atlantis should have gotten the attention after that. It's too bad they put SG-1 in the shitter, canceled Atlantis, and then whatever-the-everloving-fuck Universe was.
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Atlantis stopped being good after a season and a half, then they turned it into SG-1.5
I liked Universe.
 
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MAD, the Cartoon Network show that aired in 2010 or so. It was based off the magazine. Content-wise, it was basically Robot Chicken for kids, parodying whatever was popular at the time. If the show kept going or was brought back, it would be The Orange Man Bad Show like every other comedy show these days.
 
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