Note on my use of Latinx: I have seen multiple people discuss that they do not feel seen by the term. I have seen it and heard it being used by people of Latino/a heritage. However, I am aware that language changes so I will do my best to make sure I choose words that feel more organic and natural to language. thank you for the feedback!

In fairness, I think the only _actual_ progressive reboot I've ever heard of is She-Ra.

Disagree, you look fine, after all, we are guests in your living room

"Every generation there is a new slayer" ITS WRITTEN in the story, we definitely don't need a carbon copy Buffy who just happens to be black; what we do need is a new Slayer who has a nuanced identity in whichever ethnicity and culture the actress is. Also Anne with an E is still one of the best series on Netflix. Its perfect. Nothing further to say here, Haha.

i'll forever think that "progressive" reboots for adults will never work (at least in the near future) bc the people in charge of them are mostly doing it for money, and even if they aren't, they'd undoubtedly be pressured by higher ups whose only concern is the profit. that's why they're all filled with empty story arcs and buzzwords. and that's why kids' media works. bc tv shows like she-ra or the babysitters club come about from the desire of people to give to children now the safe space they felt when they were growing up, or creating one they wished they had.

You are totally right. I don't want diverse faces in front of white narratives. It's crazy that there are a lot of older shows more progressive than the shows coming out today. Studios and writers should learn a thing or two from things that have worked in the past. While I liked the idea of black women having leading roles in Gossip Girl, the writing was terrible and the narratives were superficial. And not in the fun and exciting superficial way that the original was. With all the reboots coming out, it's almost as if studios are afraid of original content.

I wonder how much of the failure to cast black actors, especially those with darker skin, is about not investing in the knowledgeable crew talent to light them well (or do their hair)- thus such characters look out of place next to their potential cast mates and don’t get the gigs they should

I've watched none of these shows but let me get into this....

I hated the new gossip girl and it wasn't because it was progressive (was the show even progressive?) It was because it was boring, the characters were all unlikeable and not in a love to hate them way, the episodes were too long and the colour palette of the show was depressing 🤷‍♀️😅

I'm mixed and with how many racially ambiguous characters there are on TV right now, so few of them explore the nuances of our experiences because they exist mainly to be marketable and you feel that hollowness when you sit down and watch these shows. That scene in Charmed when Macy is confronted with how awful it can be to feel used as a token due to your proximity to eurocentric beauty standards is powerful on its own, but in the context of a show that only focuses on light skin and white characters, it just made me scratch my head. There's a serious lack of introspection going on in the writing room and I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking practice what you preach when I saw that.

This new Gossip Girl had such great potential in the age of influencers and it completely ignored the opportunity to criticize social media and how it affects society and mental health. Like there is no better time in history than now for Gossip Girl And they fell so flat.

I'm at the moment you mentioned the Babysitter's club, and as a black biracial woman who was mainly raised by her white dad during the early 1990's, I lived the braided hair experience. My dad only knew how to do french braids so that was me, in braids, until at least middle school. A lot of shows have black biracial girls or women in them (which has its issues with colorism, like you mentioned) but don't really do any justice to that experience. It's frustrating to say the least.

excuse you the addams family movies are GREAT because it's anjelica huston and raul julia being suave and in love with each other.

I'm very mad that the Baby-Sitters Club got cancelled after 2 seasons cuz I think the series captured the spirit of the books very well. (Also: I didn't even realize that there was implied ableism in the books.)

The issue is that reboots want to make something for the NEW generation, with the SAME writing team and producers. And if they didn't value different voices twenty years ago, and only increasing conversations about diversity pushed them to include representation now, of course their efforts will be shotty, and disingenuous, and halfhearted. And on another note, with Gossip Girl, it is really weird how they dance around race. I'm sure the writers believe that when Black people have wealth, racism disappears. Which is insane considering the fact that a Black person couldn't pay their way into a country club no matter how much money they had. And, if anything, being the single Black girl in a private school exposes you to some pretty bad experiences. At least at a more diverse public school there would be other Black students to confide in.

Besides all the performative/misunderstood wokeness and the Miranda-and-Che-mess in the SATC reboot, it was bizarrely ageist. I work with a lot of people in their 50s and very few in a progressive field in an urban environment behave like those people or have those issues and beliefs. My mom just turned 60 and was appalled. And Steve's story line was straight-up ableist.

I was SO frustrated that they cancelled BSC. My 10 year old twin girls LOVED it and so did all their friends. And we could always have interesting conversations about stuff they learned while watching it.

The biggest problem with most of these “progressive” reboots is that they cast actors who can’t connect with what made the original shows great. The show runners are like “We need actors from THESE demographic communities.”, with no consideration for whether the actors chosen will work together well on screen. Yes, representation is important. But, if every scene involving certain actors together falls flat, how long will that show or movie last? What good is representation that doesn’t have staying power?

I love Anne with an E but the thing about comparing it with the rest of those shows is it's Canadian and so comes from a different legacy of racial representation. The CBC is government-funded so they are supposed to represent the country and do make a lot of shows representing various cultures, often written by people from the culture. This is great as a place to start, but since it's a crown corp it tends to hold up the preferred Canadian narrative of multiculturalism. This is good in theory, but in practice generally means we are welcome to bring pieces of our heritage but nothing too scary, nothing too challenging, always make it heartwarming. Anne brought in some representation, but you'll notice it's a little toothless, only individuals have prejudices and rarely the main characters and it's all very comfortably in the past. It's a lovely show, but for a Canadian show it's not actually progressive, if you compare it to Road to Avonlea which was 20 years earlier, it isn't all that different. The exception is the residential school story, that was actually risky, a risk you take for a last season.

I had the exact same idea about Miranda and Steve opting for an open relationship! Such a missed opportunity

Any kind of “progressive” reboot only works if you have diversity in the writers room. Having characters of color, queer characters, and different religions groups represented, its not going to go well if you don’t have that in the writers room. Bc all things considered, while representation Is always good. Having bad representation does more harm than good and diversity in the writers room is just as, if not more important than a diverse cast.

It's wild how despite there being so many outwardly progressive shows at this point there are still so few prominent roles for darker-skinned actors even in such projects. How many more years will it take for Hollywood to get over its fear of melanin?

god yeah I've been saying for years that Static Shock is RIGHT THERE ready to be adapted again why are the execs sleeping on static shock

Netflix is one of the worst culprits for only hiring light skinned actors on supposedly diverse and "groundbreaking" shows 🙄 I never read the babysitters club growing up, but I think the reboot show is next on my list now! Especially the representation of growing up mixed living primarily with your white parent. That hits close to home and isn't something I've seen in a show before. Also, I stopped watching Anne with an e, not on purpose but because I didn't realize the third season came out until it got cancelled and I got sad and didn't want to finish it so I could pretend it wasn't canceled lol. From what I remember of the second season, I really liked how much they addressed colonialism, especially since the main character is obviously a little white girl. Also I really appreciate that they didn't just make Anne a token poc, but rather naturally included Black and Brown characters with their own legitimate story arcs, that were important in their own right. I also really like what you said about the contrast between Anne thinking avonlee is this heavenly place, where in reality it couldn't be for so many people. I had also felt apprehensive about the third season because of the residential school storyline (i have multiple relatives that are residential school survivors, and my nation is one that got funding to finally excavate and bring our children home this past year) and how that would be handled, but I think I will finally watch the third season after watching this video 💗

The fact they are filming And Just Like That season two as we speak hurts something deep within my soul.

Edit: I want to note that I have yet to see any "reboot but diverse" anything bring in disabled people. Diversity is more than just race and sexuality. We very rarely see good (as in, well written) representation of disabled people. That's how I know that most of this is nothing more than ticking the boxes. I've refused to watch all other other shows bar Anne with an E. Though I might give Babysitter's a go. The only complaint I have about Anne with an E id that they fall into that same "you can tell i'm progressive because I hate corsets" trap that so many period productions do (see Abby Cox's video on the Problem with I'm not like other girls girls that period productions have. We've mostly moved away from that in modern shows and movies, bit it's all there still in the historical stuff and I'm so damn sick of it). She's lucky shes a member of the IBTC, because a corset was your bra back then, and as a woman with a larger chest, no way would she have been happy to go around with no bust support. Also, a well made and well fitting corset is 100 rimes more comfortable than a bra and I will doe o this hill. Also also, the 90s reboot of a 60s show you missed was The Brady Bunch movies. Gotta admit, I loved them. But not as much as I loved the Addams Family movies. They actually were awesome. Truly awesome.

The babysitter club seen standing up for the transgirl is so sweet. :) Legacies has been hurting me a lot. It literally just kicked off an actress because of asian racism that was being done by Matt Davis (alaric) and the show runner. They also killed a ship that clearly was wanted by both actresses and its just like oof. They already kicked off a black lead character in the prior season, but that might have been to him getting cast in another show on CW.

I am beyond tired of all the lazy reboots...there is plenty of talent out in the world and semi-original material to be plucked from.

Another thing that made that scene in BSC in the hospital so great is that it fit in with Mary Anne’s character development. It’s not just a press by scene is about Her working past her shyness to speak up in the moments where it really matters.

I'd honestly love a Degrassi retrospective

The Gossip Girl reboot was so funny to me the moment I saw it, like, I looked at the cast and was like "this friend group had better have every person of color in the whole school in it or they are downright LYING about what these private schools still look like" 😂

I think it's funny that so many of the criticisms leveled against these failed attempts at being progressive are true of so many original series. Grey's Anatomy, even when it was helmed by Shonda; has been consistently been colourist and treated it's characters of colour as second string- Dr Webber and Dr Bailey are magical negroes/mammies for the white characters; has been harmfully biphobic, and took seventeen years to portray gay men who weren't tragic or annoying patients; has taken real life struggles of people straight from the headlines, only to create 'easy' solutions that are not unsustainable but stick in the minds of people. Edit: I put 'sustainable' instead 'unsustainable'

I love Anne with an E, but every brown character in that show had their life wrecked in Season 3. I couldn't even enjoy the resolution of Anne and Gilbert because I couldn't believe Mary and Ka'kwet were made to suffer right beforehand.

I know this wasn't the overall point of the video, but people, please, please _please_ watch Genera+ion on HBOmax. In a sea of reboots, it was an original teen drama that focused on a high school GSA club in LA. With so many of Melina's criticisms on the Gossip Girl reboot in particular I'm just like... damn, the few things worth praising about that mess already exist in a more cohesive and better written show. It has Justice Smith and Nathanya Alexander, i.e. _more_ then one black character. The most beautiful romance is a pair of teen lesbians who are trying to navigate their orientation in regards to what it means for their mental health and their cultural heritage. Nava Mau gets to play a trans latina aunt and despite it being implied that her family has not been accepting of her gender identity (the pain of which we are not subjected to on screen, god freaking bless), she's just casually happy in the background, living her best life, being in a healthy relationship with a sexy man, having her cosmotology career and helping her tiny queer neice deal with tiny queer things. You also have Syndney Mae Diaz, a trans actor who gets to play a goddamn cis person in fiction for once and that is beautiful. Nathan Stewart-Jarrett from Misfits fame is out here being the best adult/teacher in this queer teen drama. Nathan is someone who's bisexual storyline I _deeply_ relate to, and the way he has to deal with bigoted regressive views on "choosing" something from both straight and LGBTQ adults is shit that I have _never_ seen explored with as much time and energy dedicated to it on screen. The intersectionality in this show was 👏 off 👏 the 👏 freaking 👏 charts, which honestly shouldn't be surprising??? One really beautiful thing that happens when you sit down and decide "yeah we're going to write a show about a highschool GSA" is you get to show a bunch of different sides to similar experiences instead of just having one token -insert minority here- character who's expected to pull the weight for an entire group of people. The show got critsized for it's "cringe" Gen-Z social justice humor, mostly by younger millenials who frankly just didn't get it. Like if it's not for you, fine, but the show was co-written with the guy's teenager daughter and I think it shows in the _best_ ways. A lot of the time it feels like a version of Euphoria for babies which I mean as a GOOD thing. If you want a cast FULL of POC actors in queer storylines where the main take away _isn't_ life is pain and you're never going to be happy, this was fucking it. For anyone who might pick it up though, also know that it goes out on a cliffhanger and got cancled to make room for the Degrassi reboot. Genera+ion died for our sins, and my anger boils every single time discussions about "unoriginal/bad woke" reboots come up. EDIT: also just gonna drop this link here and take a moment to shout out a reviewer. She said a lot of stuff better then I could 🙏 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ir5zeceZ29GXj3U.html

omg that baby sitters club speech about gender-affirming medical professionals was so surprisingly well written i teared up

Just here to say vive Anne with an E! They did such an amazing job with that show and I can't even explain how heartwarming it was to see trini characters that spoke Trinidadian creole English. Progressive reboot or not, you can tell when there is care put into a project ❤️

I love your sex and the city review part. I would want to watch a long video when you talk about the depiction of sex on that show. It's so judgemental and hypocritical. Like, they try to be sex positive with a regressive mindset. It's like your aunt talking about tinder.

I just recently finished watching season 1 of HIMYF and I feel this. the show has a Mexican woman, an asian (Vietnamese?) woman, and an Indian man in the main cast and their ethnicities RARELY inform their characters beyond a couple one-off moments in the beginning. one of them is comedic relief, one is just a cool supporting character, and the 3rd has an important conflict... but it's about maintaining a long-distance relationship. and like. one of the other main characters is a white British guy, and has an episode where he's REALLY excited about watching a soccer game. and... he's the only one. the show makes a POINT of showing that the other characters don't care and he's upset about that, even though soccer's the most popular sport in Mexico and the 3rd most popular sport in India. on a related note: Ellen (the asian/Vietnamese woman) is a lesbian too, and her attempts at cultivating a love life just feel far too removed from my experience as a queer woman. it felt like the writers decided they could write her as a straight guy when it comes to finding romance, instead of figuring out what it's like for us to try and figure out not only if a woman is in fact gay, but also if she's even interested. there's no presumption of gayness for us the way straight people have a presumption of straightness.

What is that Trigger Warning !? LOL . You're a Queen 👑 Also ,"An R rating on a PG product. " That's a great description

I really enjoy Anne with and E and Babysitters Club. I think both of them take the approach of what young people in the past and today would go through and encounter. Not just throwing in diversity as window dressing.

Love me that Anne with an E, Anne of Green Gables praise 😊

I loved the BSC reboot. It was so very well done that my heart melted. And they were able to keep it still at the right age level. I absolutely loved the lack of pandering *coughfullerhousecough*

3:50 fun fact: there was a planned Gilligan's Island film for the 90s with Adam Sandler as Gilligan and Chris Farley as Skipper but it fell through.

Amazing as always Princess!!! Also YEEEEEES ANNE WITH AN E!!!

I'm so glad I skipped SATC reboot. That all sounds awful. And I'm devastated BSC is not coming back again! Mary Ann being an advocate for Bailey always gives me tears in my eyes. Fantastic analysis as always.

Your comments on Just Like That were dead on. How sadly cringe to relive the absent of growth in all the characters. I feel the focus on Carrie's shoe fetish was a tired trope that's best forgotten. There is a show called Jinx that I hope to hear your opinion on sometime..a look at porno magazines featuring male nudes created by a 1970's styled womans rights magazine writer..a really unique look at the sexual morals in the early days of the women's rights movement in the US.

The black lipstick really brings out your eyes in a pretty way. Then again you always serve Casual Fine. Thanks for another video

I adored One Day at a Time, I was able to get some of my mexican family to get into and helped talked some on being lgbt+. NuCharmed was a when I felt a story about three latina sisters has a lot going for it.

Woo yeah, the reboot of fun fem show to edgy politically aware show is so not it. In general, even though I don't believe in being apolitical, I also don't think the way anyone incorporates politics directly in entertainment right now works at all. I'd say Sex Education does the mini political activism the best but it's because it's actually thread into the story in ways that make sense (i.e. going to an abortion clinic, experiencing sexual assault, being open with your sexuality in a not very accepting world, being in a wheelchair in a non-wheelchair accessible world). I think most other shows are written from the detached perspective of people who don't know what it's like to have social political "debate" topics effect their every day lives like what does giving people like AOC and Bernie Sanders shoutouts have to do with anything actually happening to these characters or us as an audience looking to relate. (And the influencer level BLM protest episode in Gossip Girl 2.0 is already so bad and will only get more embarrassing with time, ahh the show is rotten milk)

Talking about Charmed: I was so excited when I found out about the reboot. Charmed is one of my favorite series growing up because it focused more on the sister's relationships, even though yes, men were prominent part of the show. When I heard the reboot was featuring latinx witches, I was really hoping to get to see non westernized version of magic, like voodoo, bruja, etc. That's part of what made the advertising so interesting. Then the first season seemed to be copying a lot of the same storylines from the first show, and quite honestly, I got bored very quickly. AJLT was one of the biggest let downs, even though I had almost zero expectations that it would be good. It's like the writers, and a lot of them worked on at least the last few seasons of the og show, forgot who these characters were. Miranda...Oh, where to begin. It's like they wanted to make up for how homophobic she was in the og series to make her the sjw of the show while doing the literal least and that storyline only being used to further her relationship with Che. And while I liked Che, I feel like she did put too much on Miranda to expect a very heteronormative woman who's clearly just now expiramenting to know all the relationship pitfalls of dating in the lgbtq world. Che should've had the conversation with her early on about whether or not she and Steve were in an open relationship. Carrie was still Carrie, only caring about Miranda or Charlotte when she was directly involved. I loved Charlotte this season, and she was always one of my least favorite characters. Seema and Nya were my fav of the new comers. I loved that they had honest conversations about regretting having kids, and if Nya would regret not having one or if she was happy being child free. Considering how many child free (which is different than child less) milennials there are in the world, we're woefully underrepresented onsecreen or they use that as a plot device to get the character to "come to terms" that she wants to be a mom or her life wont be fulfilled. And in regards to Miranda's marriage; I would've LOVED to see them explore an open marriage or throuple situation like from Shameless with V and Kev. That relationship was widely accepted after some initial distrust, and seemed to be working. And I absolutely agree Steve would've been open to communication or discussing an open marriage or nontraditional relationship to stay with Miranda, and Miranda herself said she still loved being with him, just not sexually. So why, in the year of 2022, is divorce still the only option? This show is as close minded as it ever was when it comes to non traditional relationships and they STILL can't have honest conversations about lgbtq relationships. It was so frustrating to watch.

I had similar feeling in relation to POCing Charmed and Gossil girl, it seemed they just put in diverse actresses, but kept the plot 'white'. Where are the POC stories?! What was the biggest loss for me in Charmed is that they didn't even use non-white western magic, there is so much great narratives in Latin America and Africa, just use these!!! We are tired or elfs and whitelighters..

You said "I want Static" and I felt my soul evacuate my body 💀 I have been on my hands and knees begging for more static shock content since MIDDLE SCHOOL. Static Shock was easily one of my earliest fandoms, back when the show was first airing and I have been STARVED for virgil ever since. There might be a movie in the works but the silence on production is deafening

Yes originality died a slow painful death a long time ago.

I definitely agree with the problems with the gossip girl reboot I feel it truly just wanted to have its case and eat it too, they wanted the cool points with the diversity cast/characters but didn’t want to address the reasons why the diversity cast is there. The thing that a lot of people seems to forget or choose to forget is the original book series and the first 2 seasons of the original TV series had their storylines based on being a commentary on social class hierarchy and discrimination among teenagers and young adults by using Y2K/early 2010s New York City upper class culture/community as the backdrop I feel excluding that social commentary during the final 4 seasons of OG gossip girl and how that lead to the show’s downfall was the perfect way to make the reboot work well, they could’ve taken advantage of the new era of social-political consciousness becoming more talked about in today’s society and the world becoming more divisive to upper class society and celebrity culture and dive right into it but nah they just dropped the ball.

If they could get a great writer, I feel like Living Single could for sure come back. Hell, A Different would even be a great show for right now. They would for sure need to still be comedies I think.

Oh, Legacies… I don’t like the term ‘guilty pleasure’, but I don’t know how else to call a show I enjoy for scratching some of my specific trope needs, while falling into the same bullshit when treating _certain_ characters as its parent shows - despite all the veneer of progressivism it had compared to them. I know it’s not technically a reboot, but it really does exemplify many of the same points with the way it tried to move with the times and whatnot.

I have never watched any of these reboots or the originals and I was cringing at every clip, but this was such a fun video, thanks!

The thing with the "Black Buffy" that really annoys me is that KENDRA IS RIGHT THERE. Just make a spin off/AU where she lives!

Interesting that you consider Abby as the one who took over new Charmed in season 2, when I thought it was Harry who took over the show. They dive all the way into his backstory, and even made the dark version of him as the main antagonist, they gave him this pseudo love triangle with him, Macy and Abby. Harry felt more like the main character than the Charmed Ones did. Which is my biggest problem with the show. They don’t treat their main characters like their main characters enough. And I could go on and on about how Gossip Girl 2.0 was a mistake, it should’ve never aired the way it was written.

My short version: Progressive Reboots, like all reboots, only work when you have something to say beyond 'representation matters'

Ahh i just checked your page yesterday to see if i missed a video, I’m so excited for this topic!! As someone who always thought a lot about social justice and popular media I’m so annoyed when I see how terribly progressive topics are handled. I just rather shows not try to take a social justice lens but I know they basically can’t be neutral anymore. It’s just so cringy how awkward and forced it all feels. I just started reading home by Toni Morrison and there’s so much depth, it’s refreshing to consume media about racism that is handled eloquently.

As a teacher, the teachers on the gossip girl reboot made me stop watching. Why are the teachers like that...no one is forcing them to work at a private school. The public schools are hiring, paying more, and unionized.

You do you. Besides you don't look like crap. And I think most of us are here because we want to here your thoughts ❤

I love seeing videos from you and this one in particular was such a treat. I think you've made a ton of great points about the spirit in which good representation should be present and the way to approach these reboots in a way that actually says something meaningful. Genuinely brilliant stuff.

Definitely like your videos when it comes to deep dives like this. I feel like I could go on and on in conversation with you about these shows.

Gilligan's Island was rebooted, as a surviver style reality show.

Here’s the thing, I LIKE my problematic classics. Buffy The Vampire Slayer has almost zero people of color in its main cast. Martin and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air both have misogyny and colorism. Sex and the City can be quite homophobic and transphobic. I enjoy them all the same, because they’re relics and I make fun of them for it. And keeping them the way they are allows for education on how things used to be. Now progressive reboots CAN work, but most of them end up being progressive just for profit. As marketable as progress is, unfortunately good art requires more than progressiveness to be good.

Just watched a video that get me in mind to finally buy a some decent bras and now you've got me wanting to invest in myself even more. Love the black lip/necklace/nails! Every time your finger tips came into frame my eyes locked on.

I would kill for a Degrassi retrospective from you

I love your commentaries so much

You are so wonderful! Thank you!

Melina you look great, I know that sometimes body positivity can be hard (especially during the covid years, I myself have struggled alot) but you're always beautiful and will forever be beautiful (or what ever you're preferred positive body image phrase)

I definitely am in the belief that have characters be whatever you want. But I don't want that to be the only part of there character. I want round characters not flat and community getting. I'm so tired of having "gay" characters and they just exist to be gay, no I am more than my sexuality and I do more than think about men.

The day Julie Plec stops getting shows to run will be a great day.

You are so good are presenting your thoughts. This is exactly how I feel but I don't have a big enough vocabulary. Thanks for the great video!

another awesome video! had a hard day of work and seeing this vid was so exciting

As always, very thoughtful and fascinating. It made me want to check the Babysitters Club!

Love your videos! ❤️❤️❤️ It would be great to hear your take on the new PLL reboot and AMC's Interview with a Vampire series.

this is the first video i've seen from you and omggggg!!! can't wait to binge all of your other videos

been a sub since your rant video on laurel lance. your content has changed so much. loving the growth! 🥰

Just started the video, but you looks so good! Love the hair!

Yes! I have also loved The Babysitter’s club and Anne with an E! These are just awesome shows and worthy of being rewatched!

I'm so mad KZfaq didn't tell me you posted

As always, Awesome stuff. Thank you RIP - Anne with an E.... I will never get over not knowing what happens to that sweet native girl.

I am so glad this is your sponsorship because I need a new apparatus 😎🥰

I wanted to watch this video cause I was curious about your opinion on the new GG, which I only watched half of and I thought well probably the other shows being discussed wouldn't be as interesting to watch right? The whole video was very well made and even though I didn't watch those other shows I could just see why these shows bothered you so much, it's the type of shit that I'm too dumb to put into words but when you do it, it's like YES THAT'S IT! WELL SAID!. And you legitimately made me curious to watch Anne with an E and Baby sitter's club, they sound really nice. Anyway great video, looking forward to your next one about Disney.

I've never agreed with an entire video so much, in such along time! Great work!! ❤❤👏🏾👏🏾

Oddly enough, the IDW comic series of a bunch of the 80s Hasbro toy properties have been fairy progressive. Optimus Prime trying to deconstruct a system of extreme 'colonial/classism that lead to the the deception uprising as a pseudo-Russian Revolution that became a space robot Soviet empire while dealing what the questions of wtf sex/gender/body politics means to beings of theoretically have the ability to just change parts was more depth from a 's3LL m04R t0Yz!" comic than I ever expected and a nice refreshing 'FU' to Bay's movies.

You look great girl. And great commentary as usual!

Getting an ad for the new GG right as the section started on GG, took me a minute to realize it was an ad and not just clips you were showing lol

Thank you for this!!

p.s. So glad you are back...enjoy your work! p.s.s great music on the credits too!

I remember watching Charmed and it suffers from what a lot of CW shows have with this insufferably nonself aware loose attempt at addressing social issues or incorporating it into dialogue without it actually seeming human or realistic or even genuine. Also I think its an interesting note that all the shows discussed here seem to have a more female focused demo. But hopefully things keep moving forward not backwards for other future reboots.

Ah, the video I've been looking forward to. And work/life finally gifting me the time to watch it

Really appreciated this video. I find that even when I'm writing my own stories from my own Maori culture there is a point at which there's a crossing over into what I have come to call "plundering". Where you start picking out bits like its a smorgasbord without really taking the care to understand how the parts fit into the sum. It's a subtle thing and I can appreciate that it would be easy to do when you're writing for someone else's culture. And much more so when the approach is as clueless (if also well meaning) as some of the examples cited here.

Excellent video 🙌🙌🙌🙌

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS I've been waiting for this video ever since you wrote that it'd be coming. Can't wait to watch it.

Hey, greetings from Germany, Love your Videos!

I so feel that about also wanting new characters who can have their own legacies!

My favorite youtubers, always there for me when I need to kill an hour.