As I stumbled upon new promos for the revised and revamped 90210, promos consisting of the famous guitar riff and "hey, bro" handshakes, I finally figured out why the remake is such a dumb idea. Besides the fact it's a remake, of course. The thing is that the promo shows that the people behind the show are doing the remake with the idea that the people who watched it back then watched it because it was good. The show was not good--not good at all. In fact, most people watched it because it was bad and the very definition of cheesy, that being something that was done with just enough serious intent and earnestness to make the awfulness entertaining. Just look at the infamous guitar riff and hand-slapping credit sequence of the original show-- it consisted of an over-the-top guitar hook that was done to sound rocking but was definitely not combined with images of people trying to look cool who were most definitely not.

So the promo has the same sort of look and feel of the original show, which is good, right, because it'll mean the same fun, right? Well no, because in doing the promo that way, it comes off like they actually think the entire title sequence was cool. And if they thought the opening sequence was cool, then they probably thought the rest of the show was cool and that people watched it because it was cool when they most definitely watched it because it was definitely not cool. In other words, they're redoing something people watched ironically unironically.

But wait-- if they're doing is just like the original, wouldn't it be the same amount of cheesy fun? No. It makes it a stupid idea.