My thing is if it’s so far removed, why use the IP to begin with? Why not just make a new show, or adapt something that hasn’t been made or made well or as ubiquitous as Scooby Doo? Like, ok, if you don’t have an original idea, fine, just adapt something inclusive like Raisin in the Sun and do a damn good job of it. Or just make a show like Arthur, not a live action Arthur ffs, but a show inspired by that with drawn human characters that is inclusive.

Things can be done, the lazy writing just sucks and I talk shit about ALL remakes (started with the Total Recall abortion) and most reboots. It isn’t “anti-woke” that gets me, it’s that Tim Burton is seemingly the only one tapping into the wellspring of original thought since around aught-nine.