Believe it or not / I don’t see the point / Why do they bother to do this shi-i-it
The Greatest American Hero is a cult classic show. I don’t know why you’d try to reboot it; mostly because rebooted anything tends to suck far more than the original. That goes double for cult classic media; the only examples you could find to the contrary would force you to wade through a sea of mediocrity that just proves the rule. Total honesty, they caught lightning in a bottle; right cast, right time, right concept, right intro theme, and a tiny spark. Without the unaccountable variable, chances are you’re all but doomed to fail.
Oh, but it’s not just a straight reboot! Coming from Fresh Off the Boat writer-producer Rachna Fruchbom and Nahnatchka Khan (their production company Fierce Baby), the show will center on “Meera, a 30-year-old Indian-American woman from Cleveland whose talents include tequila drinking, karaoke and not much else“. I think, by that last “talents” bit, they’re horribly misjudging what people liked about the original show. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
ABC has given it a put-pilot deal, which means the first episode will air even if the rest of the series doesn’t. The show will be a half-hour sitcom. Every other attempt at both continuing or rebooting the series (short of a comic miniseries by William Katt himself) has failed. Here’s hoping The Greatest American Hero‘s reboot goes the distance.
~A reboot’s the last thing we’d ever need / What are they on? / Believe it or not, it’s not weed!~
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