>>149110085 (OP)I'm not gonna rage about it if it sucks because the old show still exists and is pretty far removed from this in terms of when they were made (so it doesn't exactly feel like a direct continuation even though it literally is), but yeah even as a huge fan of the old show who doesn't get pissed off over shit like "omg Luanne should've become a mechanic/Peggy's moms/etc." I'm just not getting a great feeling about this. I was pretty interested at first but it feels like the more new info comes out, the worse it seems to look.
Not quite sure why. There's no one major thing I can point to but a bunch of minor things like:
>preemptively writing off Luanne because of her VA's death, this is gonna be awkward now that more VAs are dying>writing of Hank specifically feels noticeably off (other characters seem fine to me honestly)>show seems to be doing some weird stuff like Minh and Kahn breaking up and Nancy cheating again, which I get works for new story purposes but is a little depressing when the latter's storyline actually worked out well in the last show>Keeping Bobby's voice the same is pretty weird, I actually think they could've cast someone else and then had Pamela Adlon voice Gracie or Luanne if they hadn't written her off so she'd still have a major role in the showI thought the Saudi Arabia thing was really fucking weird when the first rumors of it came out months ago, but knowing the rationale for it and that they were living in an isolated American community makes that decision at least make a lot more sense to me.
Overall I'm just not really looking forward to it and am expecting it to be disappointing, though if it's actually good I'll be pleasantly surprised.