Sometimes the spinoffs really work. I'm a huge Star Trek fan and have seen all of the different series except the most recent ones that can only be seen on Paramount Plus. OK, I'm too cheap to pay for another TV service. I just rewatched 2 of the 3 Chris Pine Captain Kirk movies and number 3 is queued up for tonight. They are leaving Netflix at the end of this month.
In other cases spinoffs seem like the quest for more money and complete lack of anything resembling a new idea.
As always, we viewers take our wins when we can and hope the movie and TV show producers come up with a new idea now and then. Even better would be movies aimed at a mature audience....hint, not 15 year-old boys.
Thanks for sharing an interesting look at the TV and movies we've loved and hated.
Spin-offs involve taking existing characters and concepts from an earlier show and building a new show around them: many of the sitcoms you mentioned, for example, focused on taking popular supporting characters and making them leads. Reboots involve taking an existing series concept and starting from scratch almost as if no source material existed- the best ones respect and interact with the source while the worst ones discredit the source.
Sometimes the spinoffs really work. I'm a huge Star Trek fan and have seen all of the different series except the most recent ones that can only be seen on Paramount Plus. OK, I'm too cheap to pay for another TV service. I just rewatched 2 of the 3 Chris Pine Captain Kirk movies and number 3 is queued up for tonight. They are leaving Netflix at the end of this month.
In other cases spinoffs seem like the quest for more money and complete lack of anything resembling a new idea.
As always, we viewers take our wins when we can and hope the movie and TV show producers come up with a new idea now and then. Even better would be movies aimed at a mature audience....hint, not 15 year-old boys.
Thanks for sharing an interesting look at the TV and movies we've loved and hated.
Fascinating stuff. It appears that sf is particularly apt to spin em off.
Spin-offs involve taking existing characters and concepts from an earlier show and building a new show around them: many of the sitcoms you mentioned, for example, focused on taking popular supporting characters and making them leads. Reboots involve taking an existing series concept and starting from scratch almost as if no source material existed- the best ones respect and interact with the source while the worst ones discredit the source.