by Jinzo Ningen » Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:29 am
Suits are spending WAAAAY too much time trying to reinvent the wheel. Film it in much the same spirit and sense of wonder & fun as the old Filmation series. Quit trying to find a more believable way to present this franchise. It's a wonderfully rich and endless well to drink from. But so many folks working on this over the years obviously just don't get it. How many articles have we read where the flow of came & went writers who were trying to "break" the story agonized endlessly over ways to keep/change/explain the names of these characters, because they were embarrassed about them??? If you are ashamed or embarrassed about something (or feel it's dumb and beneath you) then quite clearly you are absolutely NOT the right person to be working on it. They have goofy names. So what? Introduce them and move on. It never seemed to bother kids back in the day when they were playing with them in record numbers. They accepted and that was that. Like I said, the wrong people are overthinking this far too much. Embrace the wackiness and run with it.