"Wonder Years" reboot starring Don Cheadle

[Andrew NDB]

Don Cheadle will play the adult version of the lead character, Dean, in the pilot for ABC’s “Wonder Years” reboot. The new take centers on a Black family in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1968.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/cheadle...-years-reboot/

Basically, let's hope there's lots of racism and hatred, demonizing the majority of Americans through the lens of hindsight, just like the original. Wait...

[Galactus]

Well I imagine the African American experience in the 60s and 70s to be very different to that of a white family. It would be pointless if it didn't address racism.

That being said I'm not really interested in a reboot of this. The original was fine but nothing I've ever felt like rewatching.

[Leo656]

What's sad is, there really are tons of people in this generation who probably can't wait to sit down and be outraged on a weekly basis about things that happened decades before any of them were ever born.

Reminds me of that one Thanksgiving episode of "King of the Hill", where the kids had a teacher who force-fed them all a bunch of White Liberal Guilt stuff.

Bobby: "We have to pick off the scab so the wound can heal!"
Hank: "That's crazy! If a wound has a scab, it's already healing! And besides, none of that stuff had ANYTHING to do with you!"

I'm glad there's apparently serious talk about a King of the Hill revival. We need it now more than ever.

[Wildcat]

Wow Fred Savage is gonna direct it. That makes it even more interesting.

I really liked the original. Watched it all the time on Nick at Nite back in the 90s.

I was going to get the complete DVD series but they came around so late I thought they’d do a Blu Ray set. Maybe they will now.

[Leo656]

Danica McKellar grew up to be one of those people who always looks like she's naked even when she's wearing clothes.

Just, like, ungodly sexy. Like, "That's not even f*cking FAIR" sexy.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Leo656

What's sad is, there really are tons of people in this generation who probably can't wait to sit down and be outraged on a weekly basis about things that happened decades before any of them were ever born.

*sighs* just more fuel for the fire.

I'm curious though, exactly when will people let this go and move on with their lives? We're at a point now where there should be 1 or 2 generations of black people in which their family tree already started in the states out of the slave era. Likewise with 1 or 2 generations of white people that don't have slave owners in their lineage.

Like, during WWII was Japan not the enemy? How come it's ok for people to have Japanese-American friends and co-workers without raising a stink about WWII every day? I assume we still have Russian-Americans and German-Americans here too, do they still get picked on because they were 'the enemy' years ago? Like do kids call Russian-American classmates Ivan and German-American kids Adolf in the playground or something?

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Basically, let's hope there's lots of racism and hatred, demonizing the majority of Americans through the lens of hindsight, just like the original. Wait...

When I read the thread title I had a molecule of excitement. I've really like Don Cheadle since watching Hotel Rwanda in a college Sociology class and I love his War Machine. I also loved the Wonder Years. There was a molecule that got excited inside of me somewhere.

And then as I clicked on the thread, modern zeitgeist poured into my head, and then I read this and.... yeah. Gone. Don't care, let it fail. The same people who would praise this announcement and "stunning and brave!" would then scream "cultural appropriation!" if someone remade Sandford & Son with white junkyard owners.

Originally Posted by Galactus

Well I imagine the African American experience in the 60s and 70s to be very different to that of a white family. It would be pointless if it didn't address racism.

Exactly true.

Originally Posted by Leo656

What's sad is, there really are tons of people in this generation who probably can't wait to sit down and be outraged on a weekly basis about things that happened decades before any of them were ever born.

It was originally called "The Wonder Years" because it was about the combination of witnessing and growing-up in the overall positive change of social upheaval in society while it touched on the highs and lows of life along the way. I imagine this show will claim it's going for that, but will actually just make whitey a hate-trope with the occasional token amicable white family. And then the show can inform people like Indigo even more about "the world outside their window".

Because it's better for T.V. to do that through the Hollywood lens rather than books like "The Scarlett Letter", "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "The Mismeasure of Man". You know.

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

*sighs* just more fuel for the fire.

I'm curious though, exactly when will people let this go and move on with their lives?

This generation won't do that. You see these people never experienced anything beyond their own being picked on in school or some nonsense that the rest of just got over in life. And these movements give these people meaning, gives them a sense of self-importance, and then points them at an "enemy". It's all phony and it's embraced by people who use the phony to make themselves superheroes in their own minds. It's onboarding for narcissism and for outrage that's more likely personal than it is actually social. These people are full of $#!( and they won't let it go because it empowers them.

The dumbest among them would read what I'm saying here and the best way their pea brains could put it together would be by saying "all this hate in the thread just because of the Wonder Years". LMAO! That's what we are dealing with.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by IMJ

The dumbest among them would read what I'm saying here and the best way their pea brains could put it together would be by saying "all this hate in the thread just because of the Wonder Years". LMAO! That's what we are dealing with.

The biggest irony is 'let the past stay in the past' isn't about hatred but rather letting go of that hatred.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

The biggest irony is 'let the past stay in the past' isn't about hatred but rather letting go of that hatred.

Exactly, man. Brilliant observation of the truth. Major props for that post. It might seem like common sense to many of us, but to the uninformed, uneducated, malicious, self-angry, or narcissists that's a completely foreign concept.

[Cure]

You people are ****ing experts at jumping to conclusions and getting yourselves angry over **** that isn't even confirmed. Hey, kinda like the people at which you all seem to be so angry. Funny.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Cure

You people are ****ing experts at jumping to conclusions and getting yourselves angry over **** that isn't even confirmed.

You mean like all of the people who decided the 1/6 "insurrection at the capitol" was some kind of pre-planned extravaganza?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...Rda?li=BBnb7Kz

Oops.

[Cure]

Right, right. I thought you people were talking about a Wonder Years reboot. My mistake, I should know better from you retards.

Like, for real, isn't it exhausting to see everything through such a political lens, then turning around and being mad at people for supposedly doing the same thing? Even before there's ANYTHING TO BE MAD ABOUT?

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Leo656

What's sad is, there really are tons of people in this generation who probably can't wait to sit down and be outraged on a weekly basis about things that happened decades before any of them were ever born.

Reminds me of that one Thanksgiving episode of "King of the Hill", where the kids had a teacher who force-fed them all a bunch of White Liberal Guilt stuff.

Bobby: "We have to pick off the scab so the wound can heal!"
Hank: "That's crazy! If a wound has a scab, it's already healing! And besides, none of that stuff had ANYTHING to do with you!"

I'm glad there's apparently serious talk about a King of the Hill revival. We need it now more than ever.

King of the Hill was and is gold.

[Leo656]

I like how Cure tries hard to take a strong moral stance and be Thread Police all the time despite the fact that he's so f*cking short. Nobody listens to short people!

Also, apropos of nothing, but I noticed that someone mentioned Sandford & Son, and I just wanted to say that the theme song to that show is incredibly whistle-able. I'm whistling it right now!

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

King of the Hill was and is gold.

T'was!

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Cure

You people are ****ing experts at jumping to conclusions and getting yourselves angry over **** that isn't even confirmed. Hey, kinda like the people at which you all seem to be so angry. Funny.

That's not exactly a valid comparison or assessment (or if I had to guess, genuine). I mean, cmon man it's not like the last several years haven't exactly set this precedent for assumptions. "Jumping to conclusions" is normally used correctly in situations where there's no reason to go that far. There's years of precedent for the thoughts in this thread.

Originally Posted by Leo656

I like how Cure tries hard to take a strong moral stance and be Thread Police all the time despite the fact that he's so f*cking short. Nobody listens to short people!

Also, apropos of nothing, but I noticed that someone mentioned Sandford & Son, and I just wanted to say that the theme song to that show is incredibly whistle-able. I'm whistling it right now!



T'was!

Love that theme song!

[ssjup81]

This is surprising to hear. So it's going to take place in the same time frame as the original show did? I think that took place from 1967 - 1974, or maybe it did start from1968. Doing the math (back then) I figured that Kevin, Winnie, and their friend with the glasses whose name is escaping for some reason, characters were the same age as my parents during that time. You know, I forgot where the show took place too since it's been so long since I've seen it.

So this time, it will be in Alabama. That sounds scary already, but it may be interesting with Fred Savage directing it. Still surprised that this of all shows is getting a reboot, but seeing the show from a different perspective might be an interesting watch.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by ssjup81

This is surprising to hear. So it's going to take place in the same time frame as the original show did? I think that took place from 1967 - 1974, or maybe it did start from1968. Doing the math (back then) I figured that Kevin, Winnie, and their friend with the glasses whose name is escaping for some reason, characters were the same age as my parents during that time. You know, I forgot where the show took place too since it's been so long since I've seen it.

The other one was Paul Pfeiffer.

[Zulithe]

I used to love the Wonder Years back when it was airing. I'll always be fond of it. That said, I doubt this new version will be for me, because I just don't watch a lot of commercial tv dramas anymore, can't remember the last time I did. I only have time for prestige TV anymore.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

I used to love the Wonder Years back when it was airing. I'll always be fond of it. That said, I doubt this new version will be for me, because I just don't watch a lot of commercial tv dramas anymore, can't remember the last time I did. I only have time for prestige TV anymore.

What do you consider to be prestige TV?

[ZariusTwo]

Fred Savage has been let go from the production following an investigation into misconduct

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entert...on/9683498002/