In an age of reboots and sequels galore coming to
theaters and television, it’s easy to become jaded by the lack of originality
and craven capitalist instinct to cash in on a known product. Most of the time
these projects wind up utter failures because the success of a piece of pop
culture entertainment, be it movie, TV show, music, or book is as much the
product of the culture in which it was produced and released as the actual
quality of the work. You can get the band back together, but you can’t recreate
the external climate that contributed to their greatness or the public
perception thereof.
