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y'know what.

remakes would be okay if they were done with a specific goal in mind.

If you take an existing story, but you add a twist — you change a character, you make it queer, you flip the script, you add a plot twist, you change the setting, etc — and then you do some research and look at how that would change the story, and make adjustments accordingly, you could have a really interesting remake.

Creatives have been doing this as long as we have been alive.

The problem is when you try to recreate an existing story 1:1 and put zero thought in how your new adaptation should change to suit your medium. Or adjust, to be more appropriate in a new context. Or consider what you could add that pushes the narrative further, now that we have new technology and tools to do things we couldn't've done whenever the previous iteration was made.

Remakes could be good, with some thought put into them. Of course, this just makes it that much more infurating when pretty much all of them are not.

(originally posted to notepin on 23 jun 2025)