I'll take my puzzle pieces now.
I can't do that, me calling someone autistic for their unnecessarily thought out and detailed king of the hill ideas is the epitome of throwing a rock in a glass house.
What I will say is that I don't think that sort of spin off would be nearly as successful as a reboot. I don't even think it would be easy to find someone willing to produce or buy it. That sort of thing is heavily predicated on there being not just a large amount of king of the hill fans but specifically Bobby Hill fans. I certainly like the idea of the show being based on the full amount of time instead of only half but I would want it to go in another direction.
Frankly, the king of the hill reboot is remarkably safe, any other idea with the property would be infinitely more risky, which means it would never get off the ground.
But ignoring that and pretending for a second that anyone gives a fuck about my king of the hill fantasy sequel headcannon, I would like if the first season was essentially 15 or so episodes actually showing the progression of time, like if you got to see Bobby grow up and people change over the years instead of the sudden change, that way you could get stuff like an episode of ladybird dying, Bobby actually going through puberty, high school, bill dying, Hanks mom dying, Peggy hitting menopause and then putting pressure on Bobby because even the faintest hope of a second go is completely dead.
I think that would be very nice and really let the focus shift slowly and naturally onto Bobby as the main driving force, of course this would never work as a reboot or sequel to king of the hill because it's too different and risky to be accepted by producers and money men.
But in my little fantasy world you would move into the more traditional episodic structure of the original series after the show had caught up.
Although I would prefer if it was a similar episodic structure to a show like star trek TNG. Where every episode happens in a hard chronological order and they reference events of previous episodes and will have consequences of every episode still hang around instead of the king of the hill and animated show version where every episode is completely cut off from each other and everything resets to the exact same at the end of every episode.
Although in earlier KotH and for big events like the death of cotton that continuity did exist.
The original series in my mind was very much a buffet of episodes you could pick and choose from al la carte and there was very little "arc" to any of it, but if there was one overarching story of king of the hill it was absolutely the relationship between Bobby and his dad. The intended final episode of the original series is Bobby and Hank finally bonding and finding something they can do together and reaching a mutual respect and understanding. I would like that spirit to be stronger in this series.
I am also very curious what they will do with Peggy, she looks the most changed of everyone besides Bobby. I really like the idea of her being almost an antagonist towards Bobby truly growing up.
