This is something I liked about "The Magicians", which is a Harry Potter x Narnia fanfiction that tips more into "scifi" in how it attempts to reassure rather than suspend one's sense of disbelief.

The more fantastical a show, the more compelling such a gritty reboot is.

This is why I stand by my statement on the Fairly Odd Parents, because that's just so silly, haha, how do you even DO that without the humor derived from comical gags which definitionally play on inconsistencies? Butch Hartman could never?

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devtesla wrote on February 10, 2024 at 2:47 AM

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Andor is an ideal gritty reboot

flabberghaster wrote on February 10, 2024 at 4:18 AM

#18,294

I thought for a second you were advocating we bring back those terrible gritty memes.

twovests OP wrote on February 10, 2024 at 1:34 PM

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Replying to flabberghaster (#18,294)

(i have to admit, there are a lot of gritty memes, i'm not familiar)

anethum wrote on February 10, 2024 at 3:12 PM

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this brings to mind hpmor, which... i actually enjoyed when i read through it a while back. it did suffer from "forgetting to be a story"; better writers probably could avoid that pitfall.