system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
I ask why there was a need to it at all?  


Why redefine the characters race, why change their personalities, WHY REMAKE IT AT ALL?

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And the inverse is, what does this product deliver to us that the market was previously lacking AND in need of?
gpt
Why do they keep making new Batman movies every year? What was wrong with the Nolan ones? In fact, what was wrong with the Burton ones? Why did Burton even bother when there was a perfectly good Adam West Batman movie?

Not gonna try and defend the new scooby doo thing cause I haven’t seen it and it sounds like it’s probably crap, but the process of remaking and reinventing popular IP is nothing new. When done well, a reboot will capture a new aspect of the old characters and make them relevant to the current state of the world in a way that the previous iterations perhaps no longer are. When done badly, they’re a shameless cash-in that brings nothing new to the story and misunderstands why people originally liked it. I think the motivation of the writers is really key - did someone suddenly come up with a great idea that they were enthusiastic to make, or was a room of writers desperately scrambling to make one up cause they were told to?