MyVisionity wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:15 pm
It's a sign of respect because the show is acknowledging that it is no longer the same show that it once was, and is moving forward in a different direction. It's an expression of honesty to the audience, while also being respectful of the show's previous incarnation.
ABED wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:25 am
I don't exactly get what you mean. I'm not suggesting anyone skip over the original. Nothing was skipped over during the timeskip.
You said that they skipped over a chunk of their lives by not including the college years. That's an important part of a series to leave out, especially in a teen drama. How can you just jump past parts of people's lives in a story about people's lives? If anything, that's a sequel, not the same show.
Maybe One Tree Hill was unique in the realm of teen dramas, I don't know. If they wanted to take a radical departure from the norms, so be it. It just sounds to me like it just as well may have been the result of poor planning and weak writers, who didn't have enough faith and respect in their own show to move forward.
It's the same show just at a different point. There's no dishonesty in keeping the same title. One could EASILY argue that it's a sign of respect to not change the title because having the same characters in the same world but with a shiny new title is little more than a paint job.
They skipped over a period in their lives where very little happened. The important parts where filled in. Nothing was left out. This wasn't a result of poor planning. They had spend four seasons in high school and got all the story they could out of it. They wanted to skip ahead to the adult years because why spend several seasons doing more stories set in a school? It's redundant, but there was still more stories to tell since it's a coming of age story and you don't stop coming of age just because you graduate. There were still lessons to learn and goals to achieve. Besides, they told most of the stories you would tell during ones college years during the high school years. Besides, the school wasn't the setting, the town was. It's not like Degrassi. OTH didn't stop being the show when they graduated. And DB didn't stop being DB because Goku turned 18 and won a tournament.
It's a sequel, not something fundamentally different, it's not unique either. All the show did, just like DB did was skip ahead to when the characters got back together. It's like when DB skips ahead. Instead of showing us a lot of their training or the like the story skips ahead. And some stories can only sensibly be told after a time skip. Set aside aging up characters, Sometimes stories require the passage of time to tell them properly. At the end of the Cell arc, Gohan took the role of Earth's protector, but when we meet him in the Buu arc, he's strong but he's not as sharp as he once was. He's let peace lull him into a sense of calm and complacency. How do you tell that story without jumping ahead?
I'll say it again, your rules are arbitrary. Why the hell does the medium make any difference for the decision to rebrand?
I think we've lost the forest from the trees. Like anything even good plot devices can be abused, but there's nothing inherently wrong with any of them be they timeskips or big quick power ups.
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