... I doubt there are that many women in their 30s and 40s now who are still obsessed with Jem and the Holograms is all I'm saying. Without being sexist, I just don't think most women are like that, certainly not as much as men is all. So I suppose they figured they may as well market it towards the younger girls of today. And if that means having some god awful One Direction song, and some "Youtube/American Idol/X-Factor etc" style themes of being famous I suppose I can understand.
1. I know MEN in their 30s and 40s who still love the old Jem cartoon. I'm one of them.
2. Women
pretend at being more grown up than we are, but give them an opportunity to get a Lisa Frank bedspread and they lose their minds.
3. It isn't a matter of whether changes needed to be made to update things a little - of course they do. (The very first thing that comes to mind is that the character Video wouldn't work for their world's version of MTV. She'd probably work for VEVO or be a well-known Youtuber or something.) It's just that there is no need to alienate an existing fanbase when a story that will appeal to the current generation can still be made without pissing all over the essentials of the material.
What we got was Sisterhood of Hannah Montana's Traveling Pitch Perfect Mean Girls.
I think you're being needlessly harsh.... to the other shows you just referred to. Except Hannah Montana - that's always been a Jem-ripoff.
Forget Starlight Music, it never made sense that Jerrika couldn't simply take the money she needed out of the company she co-owned or that she needed to win the competition in the first place, she could have given the Holograms a contract and be done with it. It also made no sense that Eric Raymond didn't want to sign both the Misfits and Jem & the Holograms.
But that could be fixed with much smaller changes. Jerrika's dad founded the company, but didn't own a controlling stake any longer. Eric is the jerk the board appointed to lead after he died. He doesn't want JatH on the label in part because Jerrika does and he sees that as being dictated to by "daddy's little girl", and in part because he's Pizazz's boyfriend, and she can see that the band has talent and doesn't want to risk losing her band's spot as the flagship of the label.
As long as
Dangermouse remains unsullied, all is well with the world
He's the ace. He's amazing. The greatest secret agent in the world.
And I remember when people were most concerned that the director of the massively stupid
GI Joe: Retaliation wouldn't do the
feminism of the cartoon justice...
I think that's at least a tiny bit valid, actually. Scarlett ended up leading the team after Duke got promoted, in the original continuity. Does that seem anything close to likely in the new movies? And, they changed the Baroness from a willful woman doing her own thing, into a brainwash victim.
I didn't mean that said concern wasn't valid; I'm just amused that the dominant preview criticism is one no one seemed to expect. 
