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Geewun.
No one lives forever, and no one should be associated with one thing forever. I'd rather they keep the franchise going than bury it under mothballs for the occasional DVD release and T-shirt. Are newer Muppet works as good as the classic ones? Not really. But you can't replicate something that's that personal. It happens to every major franchise and classic character. I recently found this out... the reason why The Looney Tunes show is a sitcom instead is because the show runners knew it was a fool's errand to try to make Looney Tunes shorts in the style of the original ones. Because when they did that, no one liked them either. Even the ones done by actual Looney Tunes creators before they all passed on get unfavorable comparisons (even though that stuff's leaps and bounds over the boring crap they made in the 30's and the terrible ones they made in the late 60's).
And let's not forget that even when they have the same creative forces, it's not a guarantee that future projects will hold up. I need only say George Lucas... though to be fair the original trilogy was a more collaborative effort, and George's original concepts that got shot down were actually as bad as the prequel stuff. The prequels were "bad" because his worst concepts weren't overruled. In fact, he's the exception to the rule. Star Wars is generally better taken out of his hands.
Even with TV shows... even if they have the same returning cast... either the show gets picked up after years of cancellation OR the show is a long runner, there's always something missing (or something that generally changes with show evolution) that they can't recapture.
Basically, what I'm saying is of course it's going to be different. The best they can do is make it as not different as possible. You'll get a Xerox of a Xerox at best. If they basically throw out everything that made the original a classic (unless they hit a 21 Jump Street like fluke) it's far worse than trying to copy it.
Geewun.
No one lives forever, and no one should be associated with one thing forever. I'd rather they keep the franchise going than bury it under mothballs for the occasional DVD release and T-shirt. Are newer Muppet works as good as the classic ones? Not really. But you can't replicate something that's that personal. It happens to every major franchise and classic character. I recently found this out... the reason why The Looney Tunes show is a sitcom instead is because the show runners knew it was a fool's errand to try to make Looney Tunes shorts in the style of the original ones. Because when they did that, no one liked them either. Even the ones done by actual Looney Tunes creators before they all passed on get unfavorable comparisons (even though that stuff's leaps and bounds over the boring crap they made in the 30's and the terrible ones they made in the late 60's).
And let's not forget that even when they have the same creative forces, it's not a guarantee that future projects will hold up. I need only say George Lucas... though to be fair the original trilogy was a more collaborative effort, and George's original concepts that got shot down were actually as bad as the prequel stuff. The prequels were "bad" because his worst concepts weren't overruled. In fact, he's the exception to the rule. Star Wars is generally better taken out of his hands.
Even with TV shows... even if they have the same returning cast... either the show gets picked up after years of cancellation OR the show is a long runner, there's always something missing (or something that generally changes with show evolution) that they can't recapture.
Basically, what I'm saying is of course it's going to be different. The best they can do is make it as not different as possible. You'll get a Xerox of a Xerox at best. If they basically throw out everything that made the original a classic (unless they hit a 21 Jump Street like fluke) it's far worse than trying to copy it.
