{"id":62239,"date":"2023-06-25T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=62239"},"modified":"2023-06-24T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:35:39","slug":"qotd-we-wont-be-seeing-any-rebooted-tv-shows-from-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/25\/qotd-we-wont-be-seeing-any-rebooted-tv-shows-from-the-1990s\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: We won&#8217;t be seeing any rebooted TV shows from the 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8230; most 1990s entertainment would be impossible to &#8220;reboot&#8221; now, simply because so much of it presumes a baseline level of social and especially governmental competence. Take The <em>X-Files<\/em>, for instance. The &#8220;hot take&#8221; on the show back then was that it reflected our widespread social unease with an all-powerful government. The truth is out there!<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years on, we can only dream of a government competent enough to cover up contact with extraterrestrials. As someone remarked at Z Man&#8217;s the other day, our government is now so retarded, Eric Swalwell \u2014 a high-ranking member of the House intelligence committee and putative presidential candidate \u2014 couldn&#8217;t successfully bone a hooker. Sorry, gang, the aliens won&#8217;t be stopping by; they only want to make contact with <em>intelligent<\/em> life.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/random-thoughts-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;Random Thoughts&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2020-12-17.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; most 1990s entertainment would be impossible to &#8220;reboot&#8221; now, simply because so much of it presumes a baseline level of social and especially governmental competence. Take The X-Files, for instance. The &#8220;hot take&#8221; on the show back then was that it reflected our widespread social unease with an all-powerful government. The truth is out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,57,28,41,13],"tags":[1403,1456,127,1462,101,1427],"class_list":["post-62239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-1990s","tag-competence","tag-conspiracytheories","tag-severian","tag-tv","tag-ufos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-gbR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83092,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62239\/revisions\/83092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}