moonshadow wrote:I feel like this kid can relate to many here on this site. I'm not sure if I'd go so far to say he "represents the world today", maybe the world tomorrow. Of course, being at that age, I suppose kids like that are the future.
Hollywood, we've had a problem.
At issue here is that we're dealing in the world of
fiction -- fiction bordering, quite likely, on fantasy. Art does occasionally imitate life -- harmlessly -- and sometimes life reciprocates, with frequently disastrous results. Try not to confuse the two (with the possible exception of one
Sir Harry Paget Flashman [0]).
OK, so the kid character may be a possible amalgam of several individuals in real life, but the juxtaposition that would make it possible for the character to be based on one, or even two, is extremely small. The world is, after all, a very large place, and tends to be populated by individuals with small minds and narrow perspectives. Any child so behaving would likely have at least one parent who'd quash the behaviour in a New York minute -- and it takes three in that context to allow the very idea of "sartorial freedom" to blossom. The odds work against that. Even worse is what the child would face in what passes for a school system where bullying is largely enshrined as a method for weeding out off-"normal" behaviours.
And in that case, the future looks bright!
"My future's so bright I've gotta wear shades!", or so goes the song.
Regarding Rosanne. I must say I really enjoyed the show growing up.
I lived though the 1990s as an adult and found Roseann about as funny as Ellen Degeneres or Bill Cosby once he went political. I.e. not.
Will the "reboot" and the skirt-wearing kid make any impression? Who knows, and only time will tell. What I do know is that the sitcom [1] is a largely dead art form given the world in which we now dwell where the existential threats multiply by the day.
[0] Fictional Character. A creation of the mind of George MacDonald Fraser. Flashman VC, KCB, KCIE is an anti-hero modelled on the bully from
Tom Brown's School Days who finds himself embroiled in historical settings of astonishing accuracy and in spite of himself always comes out smelling like a rose. An inveterate coward, one classic remark was, "I hate being on boats. There's nowhere to run."
[1] SITCOM is actually an acronym (Single Income, Two Children, Outrageous Mortgage). Contrast with DINK (Dual Income, No Kids). Both date to the 1990s.