Remake The 80's?: Why Destroy Perfection?

I was inspired to do this post by a Facebook Group post that asked what 80's TV Show would you like to see remade on TV today. Now since I'm a child of the 80's, my first response was "I have to choose one? They were all awesome." Soon, though my rational brain engaged and, yes I admitted that there were a few stinkers in the mix, but mostly I did think "why mess with perfection, because today's TV execs are incapable of producing a good show, and even worse at remaking or reimagining an old one.

Hawaii 5-0 was pretty good, but They made the A Team into a movie and the over the top action violence of the TV show seemed very cruel in a film. 21 Jump Street turned into a comedy. And the Equalizer? I was willing to buy into a gender switch, and even the racial switch, but Robyn McCall (Queen Latifa) is a Vigilante/Private Eye part of a Team that is hunted by the police, while Robert McCall was a retired CIA agent who acted mostly alone and had good connections and relations with the Police and CIA. I just didn't get the new vibe. And I'm still too scared to see what they've done to MacGyver.

Face it, even the Facts of Life couldn't be made today. And yes I know there was a reunion/remake one shot show recently. But in today's woke environment. A show about 4 heterosexual teenage girls? Three white, one black? And the zingers that fly between all four of them (especially Jo and Blair) would be insensitive and cruel today. The show wouldn't get past the pitch today, and that's sad for the state of TV.

But my crowning example of why we shouldn't remake the 80's but simply enjoy the old reruns where we can find them is V. I recently watched the original 1984 V The Series on Tubi and have followed it up with the 2009 Reimagined Series of the same name. The two shows couldn't be more different.

First of all, Character Development is SLOOOOOW. Now here I will make my only concession to the new show. The original V Series in 1984 was not original, but actually a continuation of a storyline that began in two miniseries: V and V: The Final Battle. I just began Season Two of the reimagined series and Anna just ate her first rat. Diana would have been through the entire rodent population of Los Angeles by that time. Development wise after 14 of 22 episodes, we're still somewhere in the original Miniseries.

The Original V was a new look at the Holocaust, and the visitor flag and uniforms were stylized Nazi Swastikas. Now the V's, in the original V was for Victory, not Visitor, another WWII reference. The Aliens were always lizards or visitors. 

Anna is no Diana, and that's another problem. Anna is the Visitor Queen, no one higher than her. Diana was only a science officer on the LA mothership, all loyal to an unseen "leader". The lower rank allowed for intrigue, conniving and backstabbing. It makes for drama. Jane Badler, the original Diana, just made an appearance, and the girl still oozes venom. Maybe actors don't know how to act anymore.

And maybe that's the ultimate problem. They were only a few letters off. It should have been Y, as in Why should we do it? All the acting is really flat. "We are of peace, always" sounds so insincere on it's face I don't know how anyone believes it. "They hate us cause we're different" comes straight from the Democrat playbook. In reality the fear was because no one could tell Visitor and Human apart. They were too much alike.

The answer to the question is No. I don't want to remake the 80's. It will be wrecked. I want to remember it the way it was, not try to make them see how it is now. I am Awaiting Your Reply.