Somewhere Over the Rainbow

We all have them. The shows that you associate with your childhood, that bring you back to that special time of your youth. For some it is transformers or ghostbusters. Others would say power rangers or teenage mutant ninja turtles. For me? It's Rainbow Brite. A glorious tv show about a spunky little blond girl who goes on adventures with her awesome horse Starlite and friends the Color Kids (like Shy Violet, and Patty O'Green). Brainbow and the color kids were short pudgy kids who were freaking adorable, and my favorite movie as a kid was the one where Rainbow Brite has to rescue all the color kids. It was awesome. Totally awesome. Totes McGotes.

BUT, for some reason, someone in hollywood thought it would be a GOOD IDEA to REMAKE Rainbow Brite. Because hollywood is so starved for ideas and so completely out to make a buck on something they KNOW will make money because of a preexisting fan base (see: young girls who watched rainbow brite now have children of their own) that they just look back twenty or so years and go, "Hey! This was good! Lets mutilate and destroy it and then repackage it and distribute it to the masses!!"

Now, I know what you are saying. You are saying, "Sam? Don't you think you are over reacting? The new rainbow brite could be cute!"

NO! SHE IS NOT CUTE! She is tall! And skinny! And has long, flowing ultra-blonde model like hair!

WHY?!?! Why is this necessary?! For the love of all that is holy COME UP WITH A NEW IDEA!! And leave cherished childhood television shows ALONE!

And its not just tv shows! You know what else they are remaking? Top Gun.

Yeah, that's right.

Also? Karate Kid.

And if that's not bad enough, they are remaking the holiest of holy 80's movies.

Dirty Dancing.

IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE?!

I, for one, am sick of this nonsense. ESPECIALLY when I have dozens of perfectly good, original ideas! That have not been made, then sequalized, then remade again! Fresh, new ideas. I have them. I bet some of you have them too. And I want to see them on screen. I don't want to see the 14th version of Friday the 13th (unless Jared Padalecki is in it, but that's another point altogether). I don't want to see Miley Cyrus and one of the Jonas brothers dancing to "Time of my Life" in a disneyfied regurgitation of Dirty Dancing.

Or a tall, model version of Rainbow Brite. Come on. Leave my childhood memories alone.

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