2021 Christmas Presents – page 21
I am very much a child of the Muppet Babies era of children’s entertainment. Even if the property is already marketed for kids, there still needs to be an even MORE “for kids” version where the cast are kids or babies themselves. That’s just logic. Heck, where do you think the current TWC Voting Incentive series came from?
Somehow I feel that Baby Neva is not directed at the same target market as the original franchise.
And as someone who, a decade or so older than your generation, grew up on the REAL ORIGINAL CORRECT versions of every franchise, I really hated the baby/kid/teenager-ization versions of everything that came out 10-15 years later. Even for the entertainment industry the blatant let’s-milk-the-heck-out-of-this-intellectual-property-to-death-to-squeeze-the-last-dime-out-of-it was depressing. At least until the current trend of releasing new movie sequels of 80s/90s series a quarter century after the original series of movies starring the depressingly geriatric actors that remind me of my own mortality – that’s even worse. But hey, it makes money and keeps them from having to come up with new ideas, so win win, right? Grumble grumble everything from my childhood was better than now grumble grumble get of my lawn you punk kids!!!!
See, it’s funny: when I was a kid, 9 times out of 10 I didn’t care much for the “kid” versions of established properties either. Kid Me couldn’t wait to grow up and wanted to watch the Big Boy Shows, not the baby versions. It’s only now that I actually AM an adult that I can look back on these repackagings and find kitsch value in them.
There’s probably a lesson about human psychology somewhere in there.