Board Thread:Movie discussions/@comment-252417-20190205141753/@comment-36850635-20190310031637

TheAtomicLight wrote: As much as some people don't understand why there is hate toward Scrappy and Flim-Flam, I genuinely don't understand those people who are confused by the hate. It'd be like if people didn't understand why there would be disinterest in Superman, which would be because he's a giant boy scout wearing the American flag (which is actually true).

Scrappy is annoying because of his personality, it's in his name. He's the little runt who doesn't shout up. Some people just don't like that.

Flim-Flam is the annoying, smart ass kid who really just doesn't need to be there. I feel the film only partially redeemed that.

Bogel and Weerd are pointless characters who were a flimsy excuses to be used as a recurring foil. Their disappearance, while not making sense, happened more than once in the TV series. The film probably could have made use of ending several themes from that series, but WB wanted everything to remain ambiguous, defeating the whole purpose of the film. Maybe if they had created the series to begin with, there would've been true closure like with SDMI, but this time, they're reviving a series that they didn't create, but felt the need to provide some closure. There is a lot of lost potential in this, so like I said before, the film is as pointless as the series was. Full circle of pointlessness.

I've heard several people say how they just write what they like and hope it hits some people who feel the same way. But I really think that in some cases, you just write something and throw it like a dart hoping it will hit someone that will accept. I mean, Sheridan was someone who wanted to see closure, but the problem is he's a hired writer, so maybe we didn't see his version. But I just think this is a real hit or miss movie with what it was supposed to do: Provide closure to one particular premise, which it only semi did because it had to keep things ambiguous. But they seem to forget that continuity doesn't mean anything to them anyway, because the next film could easily just ignore this film altogether. You make some really good points! I can somewhat understand why they are disliked, even though I love all of them myself.