Don't Always Disagree

              It’s interesting to see which 80’s toy properties get picked up from the dustbin of history, brushed off, and turned into popular remakes.   On the surface, at least, there’s no obvious reason why Transformers gets turned into massive blockbusters while G.I. Joe gets a couple of middling films.   Why did a She-Ra remake get so much more cultural attention than a couple of He-Man series?   Obviously, a lot of the relative success of some of these properties go into the individual creatives behind the push, I think Michael Bay has a bit more going for him as a director than … (checks IMDB) oh, really, Stephen Summers?   That’s a shame.   But then Kevin Smith was behind the He-Man remake for Netflix and he’s much more known than Nate Stevenson.   It’s not always as obvious as it seems.                 Which br...

              Humans generally have a hard time understanding long stretches of time.   There’s the fairly common frustration as the years seem to fly by the older you get and the corresponding nostalgia at how eventful your childhood seems to have been in contrast.   There’s the moment where you realize that by any kind of measure you’re no longer young and Grandpa Simpson starts to make a disturbing amount of sense.   This also translates over to our use of technology: the cars have different switches, the televisions have different options, and home media formats improve resolutions at a pace where eventually your eyes can’t keep up and you have to tap out of future upgrades.   At a certain point in your life what is normal technology got set in stone and it becomes harder and harder to shift expectations.   To me cassettes still seem completely reasonable.      ...