(August 3, 2018 at 2:00 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: I hate the death of even low grade creativity and the acceptance of formulation solipsistic tweeking of tired old tripe masquerading as creativity.
Well come on. There really is nothing new under the son.
WWE is really a cheap version of ancient Greek tragedies.
It still amounts to good vs evil and valuing friendship. How many times can you re invent a moral that has existed forever?
It is the same with music. I actually am more fond of Pat Benatar's version of Helter Skelter than the Beatles original version.
I am not claiming I will like the new one. But I did love the old one. If they can compete with the old chemistry it should do well. If they don't they dont, and I wont continue to watch it.
It still remains that the old dynamics got to me. A white guy mooching of a rich guy, mooching of his black friend, and being dictated to and forced to bargain with the head of the house. Magnum as a character represented a white male not always having control over everything.
