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inkista t1_jec8o2n wrote

I'm enjoying it, and the fun the writers are having expanding the mythology. It's not as good as the OG show, but it's solid and getting better. But. I watched the OG show as an adult, not as a kid, so my feelings about the OG show were that I was a fan, I greatly enjoyed it, and Scott Bakula was a sweetie but it wasn't some kind of tv masterpiece for the ages. If you watched it as a kid, you could have a very different feel for the property. It's probably also why I like the Magnum PI reboot more than the average on this sub. :D

I think the new show is doing a good job of being respectful (instead of just taking the title and then graffiting all over it with whatever the hell they want), paying homage and maintaining original story, and not straying too far from the tone of the original, while still carving their own path with an interesting set of characters.

But I still think Fantasy Island's doing a better job on their reboot :D. [I'm a sucker for any former Mutant Enemy writer, and they've got two as showrunners (Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain), and another three (Jane Espenson, Ben Edlund, and Drew Z. Greenberg) in the writers' room.]

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