Remakes and Reboots: A TVCU Quickie
What's a quickie? See this blog. Today, after hearing the news of Murder She Wrote reboot series, I decided today is the day to tackle the subject quickly. There are multiple ways in which I can handle a reboot or remake, and the below mini-chron will demonstrate some that I've used in the past. Sometimes I can make it fit into the same canon as the original version, if it's just different enough. However, it's too close to the events of the original, I have to assume it to be in an alternate timeline where things happened differently, and perhaps the characters were born in a different time period. Thanks to the A Nightmare on Elm Street and Star Trek reboots, we have some evidence to support that notion of an alternate reality/divergent timeline for reboots. In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, we find that the demons that gave Freddy of the original series his powers came from the real world, and soon, Wes retraps them by expanding the franchise, returning...