The Porkchop Express said:
Sea Speed said:
superunknown said:
The thing I saw was that the actors who played Pam, Stanley, that little blonde accountant weirdo and Creed were all about doing it. I could see it being a weird "ok boomer" style show where the 4 old crew is generational battling the new office workers. Maybe the 2 factions exchange members back on forth based on stupid stuff like is Hilary Swank hot? But...you could update it to someone current. Standard sitcom setups where older gen vs new gen.
Think the writing has to be superb, and you also need to keep up the old personalities of the older characters. They're weird enough as it is without relying on the standard sitcom tropes. Why did Stanley leave Florida and unretire? (He was bored and was offered the manager job in Scranton)
I'd like to find out stuff like...where was Creed on January 6th? Deucing on a senator's desk? Selling dirt weed to antifa?
There's some stories in there, maybe. Hijinks ensue?
Would a reboot even have any of the original characters?
As a general policy, I try to never agree with Sea Speed, but hes right. Reboot means a new cast, like The Wonder Years, or any of the 50 Star Treks.
Even the star treks don't apply there. New series within the same universe +/- overlap with characters in one of the other series isn't a reboot. And sometimes different points on the same timeline. It would be like following another branch outside of Scranton, or the next generation of employees (which still isn't a reboot). Or Frazier vs Cheers.
The JJ movies can be argued, so if that's what you were referring to, then I concede.