Agree that the original MPI legacy is safe. If the reboot was going to mount a challenge in viewers' minds, it would have happened already. The original remains the far better series, but I won't begrudge the reboot if it has fans who think otherwise. They're not hurting anyone. But, I will say add that legacies change over time, and there's nothing wrong with that; it just happens. Here's an interesting article in the NY Times about the evolution of the Sight & Sound Top 100 Movies of All Time list:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... -time.html
You can see that every decade some movies are added, some rise in the list, some go down and some disappear. But in our age, with its proliferation of media (both physical and digital), there will always be a committed fan base for anything worth watching.
ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan) wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:16 pm
Now, if Jay Hernandez becomes some kind of a break-out star (a la Will Smith or something) and embarks on a major movie career then
maybe his version of MPI would be better remembered but ultimately it would still get overshadowed by his movies, as has happened with Will Smith. Most folks today think of Will Smith as a movie actor and not the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (as good as that show was in the 90s). The new MPI just has no chance to cement any kind of legacy. None of Lenkov's shows do. Look at MacGYVER reboot. It came and went. But everybody still knows that Richard Dean Anderson IS MacGyver!
Hmmm, the career trajectory of Will Smith and Jay Hernandez couldn't be more different, I think. Unrelated, but I will quibble with the idea that most folks today think of Will Smith as a movie actor and not as the Fresh Prince. I see him entirely as both, and I would imagine that he probably gets the Bel-Air theme song quoted to him more than any other of his lines. (Side note: Bel-Air was rebooted in a grittier version last year. I didn't see it, but I also don't hear anyone complaining about it tainting the original's legacy.)
Didn't see the MacGyver reboot. MacGruber, on the other hand? Enjoyed it!