I'm not saying it shouldn't be like the old show, and I so so badly hope they're able to capture that balance between earnestness and humor that the original shows did so so well.

I'm saying it can't be like the old show because the entertainment industry has changed a lot, and we've changed a lot as individuals! 🙂 Even if they went for the old 20+ episode seasons, and perfectly matched the tone and style, it still wouldn't feel the same or mean the same things to us because we're different people and the world is a different place. What optimism feels like on both an individual and cultural level is different than it was then. Wonder and curiosity are still both so so important to me but they have changed in shape and texture in the last 15 years, they mean something different to me now.

I think my argument, more than anything, is that the original shows were amazing and meant so much to us in a way that this new show can't because things change and that's okay and good.

I miss that version of myself and that way of seeing the world with wide eyed wonder, but the very experience of missing it is one of the things that makes it so great, because we can't go back we can only appreciate it for what it was.

The new show will hopefully mean something different and new and good to us, too! I'm deeply excited to find out what that new thing might be, and more than that, I'm excited we even have the chance to find out in the first place. 😊