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I don't like how they've got Susie being manipulated by Angelica now. Such a big part of her role in the original series was being the anti-Angelica who protected the babies from Angelica's schemes.
I think that was one of the biggest killers along with the kimi thing. Susie standing up to Angelica had so many benefit for all the kids involved INCLUDING Angelica. Teaching her not to be sneaky or mean or go to far with the babies or others, to share, i could go on. And those are just a few of the benefits to Angelica ALONE. Much less when the other kids are involved. Just a fucking waste sigh
@@smb. That's one of the biggest things that makes me hate the reboot. Susie was a smart, witty, confident, and kind role model for the babies. She was like the only one who could foil Angelica's plans and outsmart her. She always stood up to Angelica and often got back at her for bullying the babies. She had a strong will and sense of justice that could overcome Angelica's manipulative, selfish, and bossy attitude. Removing her as Angelica's foil is like making Perry the Platapus just a pet. They removed everything that made Susie such a great character and she became just another generic baby. It massively hinders the show as a whole.
KIMMI’s OG voice actress is completely blind. Did anyone know that? All of her scripts are in Braille. As someone with a visual impairment myself, I thought learning that about her was cool!!! She got a role in an amazing franchise.
I still think they should've just made a sequel to All Grown Up where we see the OG Rugrats deal with life as adults and parents of the new Rugrats. That'll attract the parents who grew up with the show and make the kids watch it with them
agreed. that concept worked really well for the new icarly. imagine a new show featuring new babies and their adventures with occasional glimpses into the og rugrat's adult lives. it would have been really interesting.
i think the only downside to the new animation style is that everything feels so dark !! the og cartoon was soooo vibrant and weirdly colored it added so much character. this new style has zapped some of that away due to just the lighting. its my main complaint, i even find it kind of distracting which is weird cuz i can usually overlook stuff like that
@@puccipower no, i mean the actual lighting of the animation in the show lol ive watched the rugrats enough to remember the tone. a couple episodes even used to scare/unsettle me as a kid 😂
It's not just the lighting. They also have the camera lower than their faces, sort of looking up at them. That's why you see more shadow than light. It needs to be at least eye level for it to look 'okay'. Brightening up the space wouldn't hurt either.
@@screamingladybug6006 all such odd choices to me. the colors seem vibrant enough, why frame and light it in a way that doesn’t show off the color palate ?? maybe to get a better sense of how small they are compared to the world around them, but i would think having the camera be at their eye level or a little higher would do a better job at that?? then again i’m not an animator lol
I didn't even realize they made Susie younger until people started mentioning it. I just figured she was hanging with the younger kids more since she always liked them better than Angelica.
And now we have Kimi being the same age as Angelica which is interesting to me I really hope the reboot do something with Dil don't get me wrong I don't hate the character of Dil from the original series I just feel like he serves no real purpose other than being Tommy's little brother it wasn't until the all grown up spin-off is where the character became more interesting
@@asahearts1 But in the original Susie's role was as the babies protected and to be a foil to Angelica. Which at the time was rare to see a Black character hold these roles. In the reboot it seems to be race motivated in a bad way to make Susie the same age as the others.
@@asahearts1 she was already effortlessly included in the original so this decision doesn't even make sense along that line of thinking either. It's just dumb.
Kimi was such a good influence on Chuckie. He felt that he had to be the big brother he needed to be, which helped him to be brave at times. On top of that there were so many sweet sibling moments between the two that it made me forget they weren't actually related by blood. So taking that completely away is just... No thanks. For me anyway. There's so many confusing changes for seemingly no reason... If anyone enjoys this show, that's awesome. By all means, continue enjoying it. But for me personally who grew up with the original that ended in the mid '00s... This Rugrats is just no longer canon to me lol. That's just how I feel anyway. The show's not for my generation anymore 😂
You're actually correct, since this version of Rugrats, despite having most of the key personnel that were part of the original writing staff, has an alternate continuity than the original. It's more of a DuckTales 2017 style reboot.
I don't agree with the changes they did to Kimi and Suzie. But if I am going to be completely honest and fair, Kimi was never an interesting character to the cast. She was essentially just the girl version of Tommy. She served to develop Chuckie as a big brother. But here's the issue; we already had a big brother character through Tommy and Dil. A lot of the later episodes of Rugrats just end up reusing the same narratives that they did earlier. Instead of Tommy being jealous of Dil, Chuckie was jealous of Kimi. Instead of Tommy trying to learn responsibility, it's Chuckie. The biggest issue is that they seem to keep forgetting these lessons because we get repeat episodes of Tommy still learning to not be jealous. I would have enjoyed any change with Kimi into making her a more interesting character. But just having her switch roles with Suzie is lazy.
@@Cklert They haven't switched roles. It seems that way if you watch the one clip where she's first introduced, but if you watch the episode from start to finish, while she's confrontational with Angelica at first, she becomes more amenable to her like in the old show towards the end. But yeah, the people complaining about this change forget that she was criticised during the original show's run for being a "female Tommy". By having her depicted as a year older, it gives the writers more of a chance to flesh her character out beyond that.
I kinda like the idea of Kimi being older. However, I dislike making Suzie younger and removing what made her character interesting. I'd much prefer the idea of an Angelica, Suzie and Kimi trio. The idea of the three girls having their own dynamic and adventures would help make the reboot feel more distinct beyond arbitrary changes. I feel it would be interesting to also have Kimi eventually become Chuckie's step-sister, so they can still have a sibling dynamic. It would be interesting to see Kimi acting as a caring big sister to her younger step-brother.
Its weird that they did that but it was probably to have a non-white character have more screen time for marketing. They probably saw value in having a black character be more prominent then an asian character as she is more relatable to more children in the United States. Even if its for an exploitative numbers reason its still an odd decision to change source material.
If you really think about it it makes sense. Susie was the first new kid and more integral to the show so they madeher a main character. However if she was the same age as Angelica, then Angelica couldn't get away with anything cause Susie would tell the grownups, so now she's Chuckie's age. It sounds like they have Kimi as a side character for now, I'm guessing it's a little crowded for a 1st season
@@ElectroBlastLuigi Of course I have, you probably don't know this but in my day Cree Summer would take over the TV and force us to watch all of her shows. Luckily I missed Preschool Daze unlike those other saps
I don't mind the artstyle, but the weird changes to the voices and the continuity are what made me not interested. They should have just had them all aged up to a year and a half (to have them all in slightly different scenarios) and maybe followed Dill and with a group of babies his age to still keep it Rugrats-y.
@@sonikku956 Honestly, I was thinking the same thing. I was born the year Rugrats came out, and when All Growed Up came out I was the same age as they were then, so it would be kind of fun to see them as adults.
I just dont think the babies look good in CGI due to their face shapes, they look more like melted potatoes and lack detail. Especially Tommy's design.
@@Nightman221k the one thing I like about this reboot is that is not trying to copy everything from the original show sometimes it's cool that a reboot tries to be different
In my opinion I would much prefer a whole original show that takes inspiration from Rugrats or reboot the Rugrats with an all new cast of characters to make it feel like it's own universe separate from the original classic.
I could go for a show that follows the original rugrats kids or maybe just a spin off following different babies set in the rugrats universe. They shouldn’t have changed the characters
Yeah but the studio is incapable of doing that. All the people responsible for creating this show are eccentric and they can’t do what Mike Judge has done with his characters/shows. Everyone is attached to these characters. I think this version is at least better than All Growed Up or whatever… that was deplorable.
Or, you know, reboot the Backyardigans... They had a few viral songs on TikTok this year, it would be timely. Just get Janice, Evan and Douglas back, get some writers who can capture the spirit of the original show, and you're good to go. That show was already 3D-animated to begin with, imagine how the characters would look in updated CGI!
@@TheLadyLiddell That's what I've been saying all this time! The original babies should've been adults by now, so it would've made much more sense to have a reboot focused on their own offspring. Kinda like how Toy Story 3 had Andy aging alongside the target audience and having to say goodbye to his childhood toys as he heads into college.
Oh geez, they absolutely butchered Kimi’s character model. If they want to retcon her as a separate entity and a bit older? Fine. But don’t just mimic her 2d model then put it in a stretch tool. Fine tune it to make it fit and move better given the context.
She doesn't look right at all and other than the eyes looking lifeless and just weird i can't put my finger on why she, and many others aren't fitting into the art style
I loved the original series as they were a part of my childhood as a kid growing up in the 90’s. This reboot however…it lost me when they made Grandpa Lou a hippie, the Twins lose their father and have Susie and Kimi swap ages. The dynamic of Susie vs Angelica feels lost in this reboot. Talk about be careful with what you wish for moments as there is always a downside to it all…
Wouldn't it have made more sense to have a "Rugrats: The Next Generation" thing going, where the parents are the OG babies and the New Rugrats are their kids? The time frame would make more since, they were born in the early 90s, they would have grown up into a digital age and by now be in their 30s. When I found out they tried to fix it so the parents were basically born in the 90s it felt wrong. Why is grampa a hippy, he wasn't a hippy in the original and it doesn't make since to make him a hippy now. Why is Dill and Lils mom gay (I hear) just beacuse she was tough and her husband was kinda meak didn't mean she was gay and he was her beard or what ever. The babies should have grown into adults and still been friends, allowing their kids to be friends. I can't be the only one who thought this?
Like you said, they moved the characters' births up the timeline. That's why Grandpa Lou's a hippie from Vietnam's time rather than a WWII vet, and the anti-police/soldier sentiments of current day pretty much make having him be a Vietnam vet an impossibility because of twitter backlash.
@@wakkaseta8351 Fuck Twitter. People shouldn’t be afraid to make a character a veteran or a law enforcement agent just because it’s hip to hate those professions at the moment. There are plenty of decent folks who are veterans/actively serving servicemen.
Glad I never gave it a shot, this is an abomination. Even taking off my nostalgia glasses and taking this information all in as just its own thing its still terrible. New gen kids with no knowledge of the original show will probably like this just fine, but theres no way you can enjoy this if your actually aware of the masterpiece that came before it. The 3d on its own is bad enough, not because its 3d, but because of how BAD the 3D is. Like it doesnt have to be Pixar or Disney lvl good because that'd take a ton of money, but even the Amazing World of Gumball has better CGI characters than Rugrats do and Im pretty sure Nick isnt THAT broke that they couldnt afford decent software and ppl who actually put some effort into making this show, especially a childhood classic look good. If I saw this as a child I'd be terrified of these characters ngl, they give serious uncanny valley vibes with Kimmie being the WORST of them all. I dunno if its because shes aged up or just the way they modeled her but my god does she creep me tf out. Overall hard pass, nobody should waste their time on this and just enjoy the OG series, but if their newbies who never saw the old series then maybe they might actually enjoy it. Watch at yall own risk is all I gotta say.
Angelica manipulating Susie? It's so out of character for Susie to be tricked by Angelica. She is supposed to be the voice of reason who sticks up for the babies.
It happened in the original Rugrats too. Most of the time Susie can see through Angelica but every now and then shell get inside Susie's head, making her doubting herself or getting in petty arguments. Remember Angelica is capable of tricking adults for most of an episode, she just works a little harder on Susie
A lot of the characters used to have overbites/have their mouths rlly low on their faces and the reboot just got rid of those so some of the characters look weird
I think it's more that they tried aging Kimi up specifically in CG and it looks bad They didn't have an Angelica-aged Kimi design to based it off of so yeah it looks spignificantly worse than other characters. At least with Susie there was a family photo
I think the headshapes don't translate well. They just look odd in CG and Tommy's head looks the most off to me. Lacks certain details and they all have huge squirrel cheeks.
Yeah but I think the more realistic eye would be "scarier". It would end up being unrealistically realistic. It's just gross and gives people the heebie-jeebies.
@@aliceangel7644 KIMMI’s OG voice actress is completely blind. Did anyone know that? All of her scripts are in Braille. As someone with a visual impairment myself, I thought learning that about her was cool!!! Her Headphones when she started gave her three beeps before her lines needed to be said.
If they did bring her out of retirement, they could gotten someone to read the script for her similar what RIP George O'Hanlon did in the '80's at Hanna Barbara.
@@Power-9Hunnid Or have a text to speech software ( like JAWS) to read the script via computer. But shes retired now, hopefully her new VA will do good although it probably won’t have the same gist, willing to hear it out. Im optimistic though.
"I'll always have the original so this reboot can't hurt me." Me: *Unable to watch even the original powerpuff girls because the reboot won't stop haunting me.*
@@mesousagaby740 Normally I don't bite on bait like this but I have to ask. Are you really judging your own value of being a good person on liking a cartoon?
Yeah it destroys susies character and makes angelica 10 times more annoying cause now she has nothing holding her back. Before you knew susie would put her in her place
I liked Susie being close to Angelica's age, it made her more of the fun older sister to the babies while Angelica was the mean bully older sister to them
Maybe later on in the show, they’ll have an episode where Chuckies dad and Kimi’s mom meet up? Maybe that will be how Kimi and Chucky become step siblings? It just seems weird to me that they wouldn’t have them be step siblings anymore :/
Or since they are making some big changes to the show (Kimi amd Suzie swap ages, Betty is Gay, Howard is gone) they could add Melinda Finster to the show. Would be kinda nice to see how she is.
They will probably end up making Kira a strong single mom or a new GF for Betty. This is 2021/22 after all, they all take plays from the same progressive book, and creativity is completely out the window.
@@TheMonk3613 I agree, it would be nice to see more about her character! Since they are making a lot of big changes I don't see why they couldn't bring her back
I wish they had just made a sequel of the existing Rugrats canon where Tommy and the others are now full-grown adults and the stories now focus on their own kids going on their own adventures. This reboot just feels too jarring if you're already familiar with the original.
@Ik Exactly! Like, duh, it's not that hard. Hell, they could even have that one guy's drawings of the adult Rugrats to use as a baseline for their designs.
Here's the problem I see already: Susie was like a protector being Angelicas age. Angelica would never be in trouble from Didi because she always dealt with her aloof rather than punishment. This reboot is fine for kids but the original is a masterpiece at least until the dil episodes
The best part of Rugrats is Angelica being the foil for the gang , and Suzie being her's , their rivalry was entertaining , Suzie being the opposite of Angelica , having multiple siblings she probably learned how things work and proper life values while Angelica being an only child was spoiled and sheltered. Idk why they decided to alter it. And Kimi being relegated to a mere side character instead. Her relationship with Chuckie was a sweet thing to remember and imo one of the best parts of Post Germain era of the show.
Idk if it’s because I’m growing up and in my head I’m not speaking outta nostalgia. But the CGI is just too hard to watch. The modernization is difficult. However, I think it would be interesting to hear the opinion from my little cousin tho.
Unfortunately, we’re all going through that inevitable transition in life called aging. This show is no where near as great as the original, which really spoke to multiple generations of audiences when it first came out, and had the absolute best of voice talent and storytelling. This new series is just OK in some areas, but still falls flat in others.
I don't mind the models or art style too much, but it looks dark. The original show was so colorful and vibrant, but this looks like it has this dark shade to it
"I Dream of Duffy" Basically that same episode where Angelica learned how to speed-dial food from Grandpa Lou. Was a good episode because as a smol I didn't understand how credit cards worked and that everything Angelica ordered would eventually have to be paid for. Cool reviews
On the note of how much they changed in regards to this reboot; it seriously begs the question of - if they were going to change most of the characters _this drastically_ why not just do an original show instead of rebooting the Rugrats? Because seriously, the only reason they're using the Rugrats IP is just for attention that they don't deserve. The problem with this Reboot is that by trying to make a "modern day version" of Rugrats, it's _immediately_ going to date itself. The "technology crawl" in the original wasn't meant to reflect reality - it's meant to either show characterization or how wacky and fantastic technology in this world could get. Example; Stu keeps coming up with insane inventions for relatively simple things, while Grandpa Lou can't even work a Calculator. The original show may have landlines and box televisions and no video games, but that's going to be far more _timeless_ than this show that has cellphones, livestreams and flat-screens - because stuff like that gets replaced every six months. The technology is no longer part of the fun or characterization - it's just _there_ because it "has to be." And another fault I see with this show is the fact that each of the changes to the adults feels like a _political statement._ In the original, Lou was a World War II vet - literally a part of the greatest generation...and yet was so incompetent that he ended up sleeping through key points of the war. Here...he's a _hippie._ So instead of being someone who fought in war, he's been reduced to a beatnik who complains about War. In the original Stu was a bit of a man-child, yes; but his immaturity as an adult fueled his creativity for his inventions and why he was able to come up with a lot of fantastic ideas. (His big problem was trying to sell those ideas as toys, when he could've patented whole new forms of engineering.) But now, his "Man-Childness" has been interpreted into being a Gamer. And that disappoints me because his immaturity isn't being used for creativity but instead showing a stubborn refusal to grow-up and mature. And worse, Di-Di seems to have devolved as well, considering that she's trying to be a live-streamer. I think the less said about Betty, the better. I don't have a problem with Betty being a Lesbian in this series; heck I'm sure at some point most of us assumed that she was in the original. The problem comes in when you consider that in order for Betty to be brought "out of the closet," a character _had to die._ The show conveniently handwaves the existence of Howard - Phil and Lil's father - and treats him like he never existed. Therein lies a problem when you want to reinvent a character to fit a political ideology and then have to literally axe whatever relationship they may have previously had; they're trying to fit a square box into a round hole - and the way they did it was by shaving off the corners and edges until it just barely fit. Now of course we don't know the context of where Howard is; maybe he and Betty got divorced when she realized she was gay; though I don't see why Betty should be allowed sole or full custody of the kids when her being Gay is neither his fault nor reflective on his ability to be a good father. Though if Howard does make an appearance, I highly doubt the movie will explore the nuances of being a single divorced father who is most likely being alienated from his children by the mother. Maybe Howard and Betty ended on better terms than that; but I can't help but feel the implications there would be that she'd be using him just to have children and ditched him when she got what she wanted. Who knows, maybe the best outcome for Howard in this really is to be dead. And then there's the fact that they switched Kimmie and Susie's ages...It made sense to drop Susie down to the Baby's age-group, so that she'd be less able to protect the other kids from Angelica. But with introducing Kimmie, it was like they realized too late that they put Susie into Kimmie's role and now had no place for her. So now they could only put her in the one place they could. I am a bit curious if in future episodes they will reveal that Chaz has secretly been dating Kimmie's mom and wants to marry her, just so Chuckie and Kimmie will be step-sibs again. Also, none of these characters work in 3D- their heads look too wide and too round. Let's hope that Dil doesn't make it into the show because he will look _terrifying._
@@roxassora2706 If you're not gonna carry on the original, make something new. Oh shit... yeah that takes effort. Something people don't wanna actually put in to MAKE something new. They just want to take an already existing IP and slap their own ideas onto it. That's what people with no talent do.
2:24 didn’t Angelica already do something similar back in the 90s when she was abusing food ordering with Stu’s voice modulator? Edit: 3:48 also, there was a similar episode where they went inside Chuckie to get a watermelon seed.
I wouldn’t have minded that. It would have been cute to see Tommy as a grown up, how his child could be like him, or the total opposite and be a big scaredy cat that wants to be like his Dad. So many options. And they gave us this. Or just a new cast of tots entirely.
I didn't grow up in the 90s. I wasn't born until 2002. I entered an "I hate everything new, I only want 90s stuff" phase in 2010-12. I loved Rugrats as a kid, and to this day, it is my favorite cartoon of all time. To see the timeline screwed up like this, ruining my favorite character from the series in the process, makes me feel sad.
I’ve decided that this reboot is for the new generation of kids. I’ll always have the original near and dear to my heart. Personally I think it would have been better to just have a new cast of babies with the original cast being the grown up parents but I digress
YESSSSS I WOULD BE SO PLEASED WITH THAT ANYTHING THAT MEANS I DON’T HAVE TO LISTEN TO MY FAVORITE CHARACTER HAVING A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VOICE AS A BABY
@@CosplayCore All of the kids, except Kimi have the same voice actor they did before. Dionne Quan was only recast because she was retired. It's the parents that were recast.
Psh, Stu is worried about ONE grey hair at 33? By age 23 my hair had turned completely grey. I have to dye my roots every 2 weeks. It’s a genetic thing, my dad turned grey in his 20’s, too.
its just soulless you can tell how much love went into the old ones, staff even bickered about appropriate storylines cause they cared. i doubt the writers even remember what episode they wrote with this one just like how the teen titans go writers are
Most of the same personnel as the old “Rugrats” are involved with the “Rugrats” reboot. It’s presence shows since it mostly keeps in touch with the same vibe as the original.
@@consumeroftoons2119 Many of the writers are the same but the reboot clearly had a lot of input from the higher-ups at Nickelodeon. They completely changed many characters personalities and major aspects from the original series that just make this reboot feel like nothing but a cash grab. They made Betty a lesbian even though she was happily married to Howard in the original series and the spin off All Grown Up, which took place 10 years in the future. It wouldn't have been an issue if it was implied in the original series that Betty wasn't attracted to Howard and they were friendly co-parents in the reboot but that wasn't the case. They just got rid of Howard and reinforced the stereotype that if a woman is a tomboy, she has to be lesbian. The change to her sexuality was definitely just to check the box of "gay character" for the sake of 'diversity'. They made Didi just a generic mommy vlogger even though her overly worried personality made her make some hilarious decisions in the original (her obsession with Dr Lipschitz). They changed grandpa Lou's entire backstory from a retired WWII veteran into a hippy, which did nothing but essentially make him a different character. They made Susie younger less intelligent, confident, and witty. She is basically just a generic baby now even though her being able to outsmart Angelica was what made her interesting. They reduced Kimmie to a side character, changed her age for no reason, and made her not Chuckie's sister. This takes away a lot of Chuckie's character development as an older brother and now he doesn't have a mom. Stu was originally a hardworking inventor, who did have a bit of a childish side, but he did his best to be productive and succeed. Now he is much less of a hardworking inventor and more of a very childish man who just wants to play video games and refuses to grow up. They didn't even ask the original adult voice actors to reprise their roles. Instead they highered completely new ones who sound nothing like the originals. This is a big problem because a character's distinct voice is a huge part of what identifies them in animated shows. They completely changed the artstyle to a cheaper looking 3D but didn't bother to make a lot of the character designs look properly like the 2D designs. As a result there is always something off about the way that characters look, especially the adults. They also changed the time period from the 1990's to 2020's and made modern technology more of a focus than it ever was in the original. This takes away a lot of the timeless charm of the original series. The only thing that is relatively consistent is the story structure for the babies' adventures and even that was hindered in the reboot. As stated, Susie's introduction to the original show was very significant because it introduced a new and interesting dynamic to the babies' relationship with Angelica and the adults. She was older so she could communicate with everyone. This meant that she was actually a threat to Angelica because she could put a stop to her plans by either outsmarting her or telling the adults about her. With Susie there, it meant Angelica's schemes would have to be more creative or she would have to figure out a way to distract Susie. Sometimes the babies could even get revenge on Angelica with Susie's help and she actually got punished for bullying. Now Angelica has no foil at all and the protagonists (babies) are nearly powerless against her. Honestly none of the changes the reboot made helped the show and they were so drastic that it barely even feels like the same show. If they wanted to change so much, they should have just had new baby characters and the babies as their parents.
@@AuraKumo104 Alot of your assumptions are based on the misinformation that has carelessly spread around it. Nickelodeon was not culpable in the writing decisions that went on during the production of the reboot, the writers brainstormed these ideas themselves. In contrast to what some believe, this isn't in the same continuity as the original show. While yes, most of the original players are back, it's a reboot structured along the lines of "DuckTales", where it has some similarities to the original show, but has it's own continuity that departs from the old show. The writers had to go this route, because while the bulk of the current Rugrats fanbase consists of adults, Nickelodeon's demographic is 6-11. If they jumped right back into where the series left off, today's kids would get confused, and lightening probably wouldn't have striked twice. The Jungle Movie (while it was great) performed well with adults, but underperformed with the 6-11 mindset. Most of the changes are exclusive towards the adults, since the babies themselves, and Angelica haven't really changed much, beyond switching Kimi and Susie's ages. The media storm regarding Betty's sexuality change was mainly stirred up to outrage conservatives, and garner a repeat of the Elmer Fudd controversy. The show really doesn't make a big deal out of her sexuality at all, or hardly even mention it, nor does she act stereotypical. Most of the Rugrats team suspected she was LGBT, even when the original show was in production, they just couldn't outright depict it, since society was alot more prejudiced towards LGBT representation in the 90s. You also have to keep in mind that alot of people who work on Rugrats are LGBT themselves, and they approved of this change. It wasn't done with malicious intent, or to be "woke". Howard isn't gone from the show either, the second batch of episodes have hinted towards his reappearance, and there is a plan for all of this. Some of the adults had to be retweaked, because many of their personalities in classic Rugrats reflected Baby Boomer/Gen X parenting styles. The reboot is set in a floating timeline as you've said, and in order to make the reboot resonate with a modern day audience, they've had to change some of the adults' occupations to better depict parenting situations today. If they kept their occupations from the 90s/early 2000s, it would feel stuck in the 90s, and wouldn't resonate nearly as much. Didi is still high on edge in the reboot, and Stu still is an inventor. They've just made him a gamer in conjunction with his enthusiasm for inventing (One of the storylines for the new Rugrats shows highly revolves around an invention Stu built that goes horribly wrong) They didn't mitigate the impact of "Rugrats in Paris", because this continuity is separate from that of the 1991-2006 series. Kimi is a side character right now, because they're reestablishing characters in different ways to make it stand out more from the original. If they reintegrated them the exact same way, it'd be accused of rehashing the same material, and that's not what people come to a reboot for. To recapitulate what I said, the crew do have a plan in regards to renewing dynamics. Kimi isn't Chuckie's stepsister yet, but that doesn't mean she won't be later along the line. She wasn't immediately Chuckie's stepsister during her introduction, and came in later towards the series' run. We're only 13 episodes in. It's a 26 episode season, with an additional second season coming. The character designs are consistent of that of the original series, but some of the characters' noses had to be reworked in order to make these designs translate better to 3D, since they have a huge workaround. "Rugrats" has a wonky artstyle, it's a trademark of the show's look, so naturally, the 3D aesthetic would emulate that. Modern technology was obviously going to be introduced, since it's common for reboots, or new episodes of shows from the 90s and 2000s to feature newer tech, but it's only when it becomes the main source of the writing, that it becomes a problem. It's hardly the main selling point, and when it is featured as part of the plot, it's mainly used to support it, not the tour de force. I was apprehensive about Susie being aged down, because I was concerned about her no longer being Angelica's adversary, but not long after I started to watch the reboot, I saw that Susie being aged down slightly doesn't hamper her character in the slightest. She's still resourceful (A major trademark of her personality in the new show, like the old show is her intelligence), confident, stands up to Angelica, and makes clever remarks. The only change is that she's non-verbal to the adults, so that she's included more in the show's plots, and she wouldn't be able to inform the adults on Angelica's schemes. She continues to be Angelica's foil, and is the one baby (Second in command to Tommy if you will) that isn't easily deterred by Angelica. Basically the same, minus the ability to talk to the adults. The crux of the show is experiencing the world for the first time thru a baby's experience. Portraying the babies as 30 year old parents raising their own children would meddle with the original Rugrats' vision. So, it only makes sense that they're still babies in this version.
The reboot is soulless, yes, but it's overall a decent show in my opinion. The original animation is fluid and charming as if we are glimpsed on the characters like the eyes of a fly which it's why Klasky-Csupo is great.
I foresee Kimi starting as just friends with the kids and Chas and Kira developing their relationship over a more realistic period of time, leading up to Chuckie and Kimi having a strong sibling relationship built on the foundation of preexisting friendship.
Honestly, I LOVE that Josh (who had ONE episode in the original series toward the very end of the first 65) and Kimi coexist. The McNultys only had one appearance in the Kimi era and disappeared. I know that families move away, but that was nonsense. Also Daxton is pretty cool.
I'm only 32 and I'm just starting to get some gray hair popping up. Lucky that it wasn't in my early 20s. And my younger cousins unfortunately inherited my grandpa's DNA, aka, my grandpa was pretty much bald by the time he was 22. My cousins aren't completely bald but their hairlines have definitely receded and my other cousin has hair plugs. I'd rather have gray hair than no hair!
The recurring delivery guy and reuse of background characters in general leads me to believe they absolutely only have a small number of character models to work with.
I refuse to watch it because what they did to deedees parents. Werent they originally designed to be the creators grandparents? Now they are stereotypes
It's funny, Grandpa Boris was criticized as supposedly being an anti-Semitic Jewish stereotype to some organization, despite being based on one of the creator's parents.
@@Gatorade69 I think the story back then was that the ADL asserted he resembled designs used in a Nazi-era comic. The creators AND the head of Nick at the time (Jewish) were like "uh, what" but then the person who ran Nick next (not Jewish AFAICT) was like "I agree, we're sorry" and then made some promises regarding Boris at least? (This was, like, 1999 after a different situation related to the comic that raised the same assertion again.) So maybe that's part of the vibe behind choosing to redesign them.
No, what I hate is the fact that they chucked Lipschitz out to make her a blogger instead of having her obsessively consult Lipschitz' daughter, who inherited her father's work (and by extension, moms like Didi.).
@Will N I think it was to show that just because you're *in* the field doesn't mean you're an *expert* in that field or smart - which adds to the irony that she kept consulting him for quack advice.
I have soo many Issues with Kimmy in this reboot. Why did you age down Suzzy, if you are going to age up Kimmy to replace her? It's soo backwards, It's changing stuff for the sake of change. It's the equivalent of Making a reboot of Rocko's Modern Life, Making Heffer a germophobe and cowardly Bull; and Filbert a fat, dumb, hungry turtle. You're not creating new scenarios by doing this, you're just exchanging one characther for another and acting like you did something meaningful, You didn't, you just make things more confusing for everyone watching.
Susie reason makes sense in the way that she could easily foil Angelica's schemes. Just by talking to the adults or translating between the rugrats and the adults
They're not playing musical chairs, and playing role reversal just to make changes for the sake of it. The writers are wise enough not to do that,. Susie's character is unchanged from what it was in the original, with the only changes being that she's a year younger and can't talk to the adults. That's to bring in larger writing obstacles, because if she tattled on Angelica, then the story would be over and done with and make things too formulaic. Susie's original personality is preserved, but with some extra dimension to her personality because she's a main character now. Susie wasn't above having naive moments in the original, and hung around with the babies more than anyone else her age except Angelica. So this change has more merit than one would think. Kimi hasn't replaced Susie, but she's been aged up a year to permit her to have her own character beyond being near identical to Tommy like she was in the original. Making her Angelica's moral guardian, someone who believes in her but wants her to make wise choices, is a wise evolution because she employs the qualities people liked about her before, but with the chance to disentangle by having a singular personality.
I have an idea that people might think is dumb. They should bring back All Grown Up. Have a few seasons of them where they're 10-13 then have episodes of them actually growed up like adults.
I just found your channel and am so glad I did! My family and I all sat and started binge watching your videos. Rugrats legit was one of my favorite cartoons but i have yet to watch the reboot. Keep up the amazing work, we are all rooting for you!
I loved rugrats as a kid but I don’t know about the 3D animation. It’s a little weird since we are not use to all of tech that is used in the reboot it’s a little weird
I loved watching rugrats as a kid but I don’t know if I like the 3D animation that is used and that they intigrated all of the technology that is used in the 21st century. It’s a little weird but also interesting at the same time. Also your Pokémon card collection is totally cool
This is another case of some things simply not lending themselves to 3D animation. The original show had a very sketchy, simple look which lended itself only to 2D animation. When it's polished up and put into 3D it looks hollow and weird. Sadly though, it's cheaper and that's all that matters to corporations
Kinda sounds like how my grandparents absolutely hated the Scooby Doo movies (starting with Witches Ghost/Zombie Island, I forget which was first) because they simply had shading and music from the era they were made in. 3D seems cheap, but it's just a stylistic choice. Makes toys easier to be on model too. Kids enjoy that
While I'm hesitant, I'm also curious about how the age changes impact the group dynamics, especially when it comes to Susie and Kimi. I really hope they bring Kimi back into the main, especially through the blended family approach b/c of how impactful that was back in the day.
I still think it should've been about the babies of the original cast. Imagine some contrasts you could do; Chuckie's son is the bully, Angelica's daughter is the leader, Tommy's son is the coward, and Phil and/or Lil's kids hate dirt and insects.
I am amused by the idea of "fearless Tommy Pickles" becoming an overprotective dad. I doubt any of the characters aside from Angelica and Susie would really remember the events of the original series, but it'd be interesting if those adventures became more horrifying in hindsight. Granted, a lot of them were imagined...but imagine Tommy eating lunch one day and being hit with the realization that his parents just let him take his newborn brother into the woods. Oh! And for some reason, I imagine Tommy having a daughter.
That sounds fun to brainstorm how it could go; producers were really missing out on an opportunity to use their imaginations and come up with something fun. But their goal is to mine nostalgia, not come up with fun ideas.
I can’t wait for this bleak era of reboots to be over. I don’t know why people thought this was a good idea. It only upsets the OG followers of the shows/movies and like… who are they for? Our kids could watch the original. If the original product is good it will be timeless and rugrats is one of those properties. It’s still so entertaining to this day.
Rugrats 2021 is a Disaster like everything is so different that Kimi out of nowhere gone up to 3 years old alongside Angelica. I appreciate that they added her but I really don't get why they would increase her age by 1, It's like both Susie and Kimi switched places.
Actually they made Kimi closer to 2 years older because in the original series Angelica is 3 and a few months and Kimmie is exactly 1 year and 6 months old. Kimmie is about 6 months younger than Chuckie.
I don't mind them aging up Kimi, but why make Susie younger? I don't understand the decision. If Kimi is meant to fill Susie's old role as the voice of reason against Angelica, then why not just keep Susie...? Plus, Kimi and Chuckie had such a cute stepsibling relationship, since Chuckie was filling the older sibling role and it helped give him some character development. Gosh and Kira was so cute with Chas :(.
Now he will never know what it’s like to have a mom or sibling. They are just never going to address the sadness chas and chuckie feel regarding the loss of his mom.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm glad this show is an alternate universe/timeline than the original. This reboot is not for me. Great video anyway Jordan! As always! It's still nice to be updated on the latest episodes.
I think what would have been interesting for Kimi is for her mom and Chaz to be having a long distance relationship, hinting that she's going to move there soon. Obviously changes how they meet, but would fit with the more technological way they're doing it. Maybe the episode is the adults trying to set him up with someone, not believing when he says he's with someone, before she calls at the end of the episode.
The only thing I can think of is they're setting up kimi to be the older sibling. In the show All Grown Up kimi started to break away from the little sister trope after awhile with her plotlines and behaviorand chuckie had problems that almost aged him down. It got to a weird point in the series where it felt like kimi was intended to be older like Angelica, with her mannerisms etc, but they were stuck with her being a younger sibling.
ouch that Angelica moment of being put down by her mother while her uncle praised her and made her feel proud of what she did really made me feel bad for her
honestly if the writers are having fun with it in the structure of corporate show writing thats good and im glad for them. i wouldnt have pitched this reboot like this. they make enough characters completely new characters that i would still have just pitched the rugrats REALLY all grown up and their kids hanging out. reboots are always an attempt to pander to an already established audience and i think the best way to pander to old rugrats fans and possible new viewers would be to make the old rats roughly 30 or so and give their kids a new story to tell. but we get what we get and if some people enjoy it thats cool and if i dont personally like it i can continue working on my own ideas and make something i do like.
The show seems like a solid cartoon for what it is. Not a fan of some of the voices. Also, as good as the 3D is, the hand drawn style of the original series is just so charming and fun to rewatch. To be fair, there's only so much they can do to make a show about babies appeal to the adults who grew up with it without aging the rugrats even more. Overall, the show seems fine.
I haven't watched a single episode of the reboot so seeing a younger Susie and an older Kimi does trip me out. Susie was originally made to be the niceness to bounce off from Angelica's bratty personality. As far as Kimi being Angelica's age also feels odd to me too, She felt like she was made to give Chucky a little step sister to later look up to Chucky in All Grown-Up. I think they are making Kimi and Susie switch roles of Kimi being the nicer older kid who the babies hang out with. Maybe Kimi will still become Chucky's step sister but having her as the older one will just still seem weird
I think they’re trying to pander to today’s inclusion initiatives. Oh and making Betty a lesbian sounds like stereotyping. Just because she’s tough and surly doesn’t mean she’s gay.
I get the feeling that making Suzy younger was to have a consistent non-white character, which wouldn’t bug me at all except the fact that they switched her out with Kimi who is Asian, does being a pale non-European now mean you don’t count as representation? Her addition in the original series was so important in terms of representation, even more so the fact we got a bi racial marriage and step sibling representation, if she doesn’t end up being Chucky’s step sister they’ll have written out the shows preexisting diversity. Asians seem to get their representation taken away a lot nowadays, which doesn’t make sense if representation is the goal, why not push for equal representation rather than having to choose between coloured characters as if there can only ever be one. Suzy was also a great character to challenge Angelica, if they wanted her to be in more episodes for representation they really could have just done so without the role/age swapping, I loved Suzy’s and Angelica’s dynamic, it was also nice to see a healthy “big sister” archetype that wasn’t antagonistic like Angelica, interacting with the babies. The girls watching got an aspirational female character through her too. But even if they kept the changes to Suzy, at least don’t take away Kimi’s role, just have them both there! Double representation, why would they not prefer that? As for Betty, her relationship with Howard was already good representation of how a married couple didn’t have to fit the assertive husband/submissive wife trope, we had a strong and openly feminist female who was more masculine in appearance and attitude with a soft, sensitive and reserved husband of a small non-masculine stature. I agree it’s an awful (and lazy) way to bring lesbian representation into a show by always choosing the most masculine female. Not all lesbians are masculine. So I hope that’s not the show’s intention - perhaps they’re going to go down the separated parents route, but even that is erasing the idea a non traditional gender dynamic can exist healthily in a marriage. When rebooting a show with iconic, pre-established marriages there’s not really room to bring lesbian or gay representation via those characters without the destruction of those marriages and/or complete erasure of an existing character, especially ones that are already progressive representation in their own right. Is that REALLY the only way to add representation? It shouldn’t be. Really good writers and character designs could bring in lgbt+ representation via new characters without it being out of place. Besides, this show and it’s characters was so diverse for its time, if not still more diverse than most modern shows. This reboot could do lgbt+ rep on top of that diversity if the creators truly felt it required it, it’s just a shame if they decide to do it via Betty instead of new characters.
@@Sanakudou I think them making one of the characters a lesbian is neat. But I also feel it was done more for brownie points. Maybe they can expand on how she found out.
I'm a queer woman and I honestly thought the way they went about the Betty thing really sucked. Betty and Howard were my favorite couple out of the adults because Betty and her empowerment and assertiveness was awesome to see juxtaposed with her husband's more mild and meek nature. They both were breaking gender stereotypes while being supposedly straight, which just showed that even hetero people don't HAVE to be the typical gender-conforming normies that they're expected to be. And really, it would have been great to see a hetero male character who was allowed to be "effeminate" without being made into a joke or a gay stereotype. Not to mention taking the most non-feminine female character in the show and just being like "welp, OBVIOUSLY she has to be a lesbian now" comes off as reductive and insulting. They could have just as easily made any of the other female adults lesbians -- why Betty? Is it just because she looks "butch"? Hmmm.... It's very obvious the showrunners just wanted to score points with certain groups without actually giving a shit about what they're actually doing or the messages they're sending. Very cringe. Honestly I think it would've been a better idea to make both Chas AND Kira gay. They could've had an entire arc where the other parents are trying to get Chas back into dating again, thinking he's straight, and he ends up on a date with Kira, who is also closeted, and over time they become best friends and come to terms with not being straight together! They could help each other go on dates and have a special bond as the only 2 single parents in their friend group. Basically they would both fill the missing roles in each other's lives without being a traditional hetero married family unit. Would've been much more interesting than what they actually did.
@@BOFAMET Making Chaz gay would turn his beloved late wife into a beard. And Kira becoming gay would be nothing but a way to tick boxes of brownie points (Asian and lesbian: check and check).
@@iloveutubesince3207 Didn't ask. Chaz's late wife was barely even a character so nobody would really give a shit either way. Also I didn't realize Asian women weren't capable of being gay? I'm not white AND I'm queer, is my existence just some "brownie points" for.... God, I guess? Honestly you sound like someone who just has issues with gay people in media. Just another side of the same cringe coin.
I think the best summary is "it's not, it's just lacking but overall okay, The changes and alterations vary from fine to confusing depending if the viewer grew up with the original series when it aired on Nick"
I've had a strange relationship with this reboot. Growing up, Rugrats was always "that one show" to me. That one show that stuck with me. That one show I never stopped watching. That one show I would watch again if more came out. But when the reboot came out in May this year, I just....didn't. Apart from not being subscribed to Paramount+, the fact they removed Kimi and Kira was more disappointing than I expected. While I admit Kimi was a Tommy clone, and Kira didn't have much of a character, it means that my favourite Rugrats movie, focusing on my favourite Rugrats character, never happened. It was released in cinemas. When a regular cartoon made it onto the big screen back then it meant something. I don't think people HAVE to be married, I don't think children NEED and Mum and a Dad, they have Betty to represent single parenting, so why take Chazs' wife away? If the next set of episodes are made, Kimi becomes semi-regular, and Kira makes an appearance, I'll subscribe and watch it. Who knows, maybe their romance can happen over multiple episodes and have time to develop. A viewer can dream.
Kimi wasn't a Tommy clone though and I don't know why people say that. She never had a screw driver in her nappy and she wasn't the strong leader that Tommy is. To me Kimi is a bit more optimistic of people than Suzie, since Kimi would sometimes side with Angelica. Though unlike Angelica, she doesn't mean to be bad, she's just having fun. Kimi also has a sensitive protective older brother to help her get out of trouble. This is why the dynamic is ruined in the reboot, since younger Kimi works better than older Kimi.
@@YujiUedaFan You make a good point. I was trying to pre-empt the comments some people might make in reply, people who think the show went downhill after they introduced new characters (I didn't mind personally, even back then I liked shows where the story progressed).
I have recently turned 30 (within the last week) and grown with Rugrats. Rugrats is even older than me as first aired before I was born. I refuse to even watch 1 episode of this shit show. It will haunt me forever if I do. Let's leave the past in the past. Keep those great memories from the old episodes and not to butcher any of it.
I don’t like how they stunted susie, she was literally a perfect counter to Angelica and a fully developed character in her own right. And the whole swapping Suki and Susies age thing is very strange
Gotta agree with Jordan here, Kimmy showing up here feels wrong enough that even if the show is good, it bugs me. It’s all a product of nostalgia, I know, and if it’s good I hope some kids grow up enjoying it like we did, but it’s hard to get over some of these changes.
This and Kamp Koral makes me wonder why the switch to 3D? Im pretty sure its not easier/cheaper so it is weird that they do it. But I guess its better than dumbing down and going with a very simplistic art style such as Cartoon Network has been doing
That was Nickelodeon's decision. Originally, the reboot was going to be done in 2D, since it was greenlit during the Sarah Levy interrim. But when Ramsey Naito became VP of Nick Animation, she thought the switch to 3D would make the reboot more attractive to today's kids. At first, Eryk Casemiro and Kate Boutilier (the reboot showrunners) were unsure of it, but once they found models they thought would stick, they ran with it.
@@remixchild They make more sense, when you realize that this isn't even a soft reboot. It's more of a hard reboot, like DuckTales, where it's based in it's own continuity, with some loving nods to the original series.
@@remixchild Back in the 2010s, there were plenty of people who asked for a Rugrats reboot, and when the initial announcement was made in 2018, there was alot of hype. Even early this year, alot of people were excited for it. It was one of the shows that was high in demand for Nickelodeon to bring back. Recapitulating what I said, this was the best route they could take. Since the original show did just about everything it could do, having a continuity reset was a sensible choice, because when you reboot a show like "Rugrats", you've got to take into account that the 6-11 mindset is unfamiliar with the original show, and if they followed on from where it left off, it might be lost on them, since there's 9 seasons of worth of catching up on. It would be a repeat of "The Jungle Movie" underperforming. (Even though TJM was good) It worked out in the long run, since they changed some of the adult characters in order to fit within the 2010s timeframe, but kept the babies mostly the same, and the writing consistent. Appealing to both sets of audiences, without relying too much on nostalgia, and staying true to the original vision of the show. Which is the best way to reboot a classic show.
Angelica: Go back inside!!!! (Random girl appears on screen) You: Why does she look so familiar? Girl: Hi, I'm Kimi Watanabe. You: KIMI IS BACK YESSSSS
In the Rugrats reboot, Susie is younger than Angelica and the only child of her family while Kimi is the same age as Angelica and not Chuckie's stepsister.
The 3d models are really nice. Makes me wish we had a spiritual sucessor from the ps1 game with this graphics for kids today. Wandering the house as tommy, reliving past episodes to obtain pieces for a jigsaw puzzle. ^^
You know, I have a question about Rugrats that I've always wondered... Do you, as an expert on the subject of Rugrats, think that the infamous Dr. Lipschitz's name is a play on words because his advice is always crap?
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So Kimi REPLACES Susie As The Babies’ Nice & Smart Friend & Angelica’s Rival In The Reboot, Eh?
I except this as an alt reality. But to me kimmi is still chuckies sister
Black don't Crack
i like kimi in classic not reboot
@@joshuatewolde1837 No.
I don't like how they've got Susie being manipulated by Angelica now. Such a big part of her role in the original series was being the anti-Angelica who protected the babies from Angelica's schemes.
I think that was one of the biggest killers along with the kimi thing. Susie standing up to Angelica had so many benefit for all the kids involved INCLUDING Angelica. Teaching her not to be sneaky or mean or go to far with the babies or others, to share, i could go on. And those are just a few of the benefits to Angelica ALONE. Much less when the other kids are involved. Just a fucking waste sigh
@@smb. That's one of the biggest things that makes me hate the reboot. Susie was a smart, witty, confident, and kind role model for the babies. She was like the only one who could foil Angelica's plans and outsmart her. She always stood up to Angelica and often got back at her for bullying the babies. She had a strong will and sense of justice that could overcome Angelica's manipulative, selfish, and bossy attitude. Removing her as Angelica's foil is like making Perry the Platapus just a pet. They removed everything that made Susie such a great character and she became just another generic baby. It massively hinders the show as a whole.
Yeah idk why she couldn't still be the voice of reason
Our Heroes everybody
… WHAT?!
KIMMI’s OG voice actress is completely blind. Did anyone know that? All of her scripts are in Braille. As someone with a visual impairment myself, I thought learning that about her was cool!!! She got a role in an amazing franchise.
Yeah it's too bad but it looks like D. Va took over just fine
That’s fire, I didn’t know this
Yup!!!
That’s so freaking cool, I had no idea 😲🤩🤩
Yup I did. Donnie is just cool like that.
Susie and Kimi switching ages is surreal.
Right? And she’s not Chuckie’s step sister??…
@@anastasiabennett4854 maybe chuckys dad will marry her mom in a future episode?
@@abanda51765 we really can dream big
Ikr. Feels so arbitrary
Not to mention if Kimi becomes Chuckie’s sister she’ll be the big sibling now.
I still think they should've just made a sequel to All Grown Up where we see the OG Rugrats deal with life as adults and parents of the new Rugrats. That'll attract the parents who grew up with the show and make the kids watch it with them
agreed. that concept worked really well for the new icarly. imagine a new show featuring new babies and their adventures with occasional glimpses into the og rugrat's adult lives. it would have been really interesting.
All Grown Up was horrible. I traded, fun, adventure, ordinary situations getting out of control, and a sprinkle of satire for bland melodrama.
I feel like this should have been done with Pokemon and DBZ, but here we are 🤷🏾♂️
@@icecreamhero2375 L opinion
That would be garbage
i think the only downside to the new animation style is that everything feels so dark !! the og cartoon was soooo vibrant and weirdly colored it added so much character. this new style has zapped some of that away due to just the lighting. its my main complaint, i even find it kind of distracting which is weird cuz i can usually overlook stuff like that
Thank you! Someone else finally comments how the color palette is just... dark and unappealing for the show. It's like everything is in dim lighting
The original cartoon was extremely dark if you’re referring to the comedy style. You just have to watch it as an adult.
@@puccipower no, i mean the actual lighting of the animation in the show lol ive watched the rugrats enough to remember the tone. a couple episodes even used to scare/unsettle me as a kid 😂
It's not just the lighting. They also have the camera lower than their faces, sort of looking up at them. That's why you see more shadow than light. It needs to be at least eye level for it to look 'okay'. Brightening up the space wouldn't hurt either.
@@screamingladybug6006 all such odd choices to me. the colors seem vibrant enough, why frame and light it in a way that doesn’t show off the color palate ?? maybe to get a better sense of how small they are compared to the world around them, but i would think having the camera be at their eye level or a little higher would do a better job at that?? then again i’m not an animator lol
I didn't even realize they made Susie younger until people started mentioning it. I just figured she was hanging with the younger kids more since she always liked them better than Angelica.
Didn't notice her being their height while angelica was taller I believe?
And now we have Kimi being the same age as Angelica which is interesting to me I really hope the reboot do something with Dil don't get me wrong I don't hate the character of Dil from the original series I just feel like he serves no real purpose other than being Tommy's little brother it wasn't until the all grown up spin-off is where the character became more interesting
They probably wanted to make it "more inclusive" by giving her less of an ancillary role.
@@asahearts1 But in the original Susie's role was as the babies protected and to be a foil to Angelica. Which at the time was rare to see a Black character hold these roles. In the reboot it seems to be race motivated in a bad way to make Susie the same age as the others.
@@asahearts1 she was already effortlessly included in the original so this decision doesn't even make sense along that line of thinking either. It's just dumb.
Kimi was such a good influence on Chuckie. He felt that he had to be the big brother he needed to be, which helped him to be brave at times. On top of that there were so many sweet sibling moments between the two that it made me forget they weren't actually related by blood. So taking that completely away is just... No thanks. For me anyway. There's so many confusing changes for seemingly no reason... If anyone enjoys this show, that's awesome. By all means, continue enjoying it. But for me personally who grew up with the original that ended in the mid '00s... This Rugrats is just no longer canon to me lol. That's just how I feel anyway. The show's not for my generation anymore 😂
You're actually correct, since this version of Rugrats, despite having most of the key personnel that were part of the original writing staff, has an alternate continuity than the original. It's more of a DuckTales 2017 style reboot.
@@consumeroftoons2119 You say that, but Duck Tales (2017) has did a better job than this “reboot”
I don't agree with the changes they did to Kimi and Suzie.
But if I am going to be completely honest and fair, Kimi was never an interesting character to the cast. She was essentially just the girl version of Tommy. She served to develop Chuckie as a big brother.
But here's the issue; we already had a big brother character through Tommy and Dil. A lot of the later episodes of Rugrats just end up reusing the same narratives that they did earlier. Instead of Tommy being jealous of Dil, Chuckie was jealous of Kimi. Instead of Tommy trying to learn responsibility, it's Chuckie. The biggest issue is that they seem to keep forgetting these lessons because we get repeat episodes of Tommy still learning to not be jealous.
I would have enjoyed any change with Kimi into making her a more interesting character. But just having her switch roles with Suzie is lazy.
@@Cklert They haven't switched roles. It seems that way if you watch the one clip where she's first introduced, but if you watch the episode from start to finish, while she's confrontational with Angelica at first, she becomes more amenable to her like in the old show towards the end.
But yeah, the people complaining about this change forget that she was criticised during the original show's run for being a "female Tommy". By having her depicted as a year older, it gives the writers more of a chance to flesh her character out beyond that.
I kinda like the idea of Kimi being older. However, I dislike making Suzie younger and removing what made her character interesting.
I'd much prefer the idea of an Angelica, Suzie and Kimi trio. The idea of the three girls having their own dynamic and adventures would help make the reboot feel more distinct beyond arbitrary changes.
I feel it would be interesting to also have Kimi eventually become Chuckie's step-sister, so they can still have a sibling dynamic. It would be interesting to see Kimi acting as a caring big sister to her younger step-brother.
It's tripping me up so much what they did with Suzie and Kimi's ages/relations to the babies.
Its weird that they did that but it was probably to have a non-white character have more screen time for marketing. They probably saw value in having a black character be more prominent then an asian character as she is more relatable to more children in the United States. Even if its for an exploitative numbers reason its still an odd decision to change source material.
@@TheLegendofAjsOfficial But they could easily have all of them have prominent screen time by keeping them at their original ages.
If you really think about it it makes sense. Susie was the first new kid and more integral to the show so they madeher a main character. However if she was the same age as Angelica, then Angelica couldn't get away with anything cause Susie would tell the grownups, so now she's Chuckie's age.
It sounds like they have Kimi as a side character for now, I'm guessing it's a little crowded for a 1st season
@@DDarkestKnight You haven't seen the original Rugrats
@@ElectroBlastLuigi Of course I have, you probably don't know this but in my day Cree Summer would take over the TV and force us to watch all of her shows. Luckily I missed Preschool Daze unlike those other saps
I don't mind the artstyle, but the weird changes to the voices and the continuity are what made me not interested. They should have just had them all aged up to a year and a half (to have them all in slightly different scenarios) and maybe followed Dill and with a group of babies his age to still keep it Rugrats-y.
I'd have preferred a sequel series where all of the original Rugrats are millennials in their early 30s, and its their kids who are the stars.
@@sonikku956 Honestly, I was thinking the same thing. I was born the year Rugrats came out, and when All Growed Up came out I was the same age as they were then, so it would be kind of fun to see them as adults.
I just dont think the babies look good in CGI due to their face shapes, they look more like melted potatoes and lack detail. Especially Tommy's design.
@@Nightman221k the one thing I like about this reboot is that is not trying to copy everything from the original show sometimes it's cool that a reboot tries to be different
Aged up a year and a half following Dill and rugrats as adults following their kids are both shows I would love to watch
In my opinion I would much prefer a whole original show that takes inspiration from Rugrats or reboot the Rugrats with an all new cast of characters to make it feel like it's own universe separate from the original classic.
I could go for a show that follows the original rugrats kids or maybe just a spin off following different babies set in the rugrats universe. They shouldn’t have changed the characters
Yeah but the studio is incapable of doing that. All the people responsible for creating this show are eccentric and they can’t do what Mike Judge has done with his characters/shows. Everyone is attached to these characters. I think this version is at least better than All Growed Up or whatever… that was deplorable.
A good compromise they could have ran with would be making the new show about the original Rugrats' children.
Or, you know, reboot the Backyardigans... They had a few viral songs on TikTok this year, it would be timely. Just get Janice, Evan and Douglas back, get some writers who can capture the spirit of the original show, and you're good to go. That show was already 3D-animated to begin with, imagine how the characters would look in updated CGI!
@@TheLadyLiddell That's what I've been saying all this time! The original babies should've been adults by now, so it would've made much more sense to have a reboot focused on their own offspring. Kinda like how Toy Story 3 had Andy aging alongside the target audience and having to say goodbye to his childhood toys as he heads into college.
Oh geez, they absolutely butchered Kimi’s character model.
If they want to retcon her as a separate entity and a bit older? Fine. But don’t just mimic her 2d model then put it in a stretch tool. Fine tune it to make it fit and move better given the context.
She doesn't look right at all and other than the eyes looking lifeless and just weird i can't put my finger on why she, and many others aren't fitting into the art style
She looks like a *Code Lyoko* character, and that came out in 2003.
@@lanceturley7745 kinda, but at least code Lyoko looked pretty good for what it was.
She looks punky spunky it pleases me on purely visual level
They did her SO wrong 😬
God the whole thing feels like a fever dream. Not even too bad just so weird and warped.
Ik!!! It doesn’t have that same old school feel to it 😭!!!
Looks completely horrible… what the fuck were they thinking?!?!?
I loved the original series as they were a part of my childhood as a kid growing up in the 90’s. This reboot however…it lost me when they made Grandpa Lou a hippie, the Twins lose their father and have Susie and Kimi swap ages. The dynamic of Susie vs Angelica feels lost in this reboot. Talk about be careful with what you wish for moments as there is always a downside to it all…
Blame the creators.
They wanted to fix All Grown Up, which was apparently a *travesty* that needed fixing.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to have a "Rugrats: The Next Generation" thing going, where the parents are the OG babies and the New Rugrats are their kids? The time frame would make more since, they were born in the early 90s, they would have grown up into a digital age and by now be in their 30s.
When I found out they tried to fix it so the parents were basically born in the 90s it felt wrong. Why is grampa a hippy, he wasn't a hippy in the original and it doesn't make since to make him a hippy now. Why is Dill and Lils mom gay (I hear) just beacuse she was tough and her husband was kinda meak didn't mean she was gay and he was her beard or what ever. The babies should have grown into adults and still been friends, allowing their kids to be friends.
I can't be the only one who thought this?
Wish they would've did that instead of this bs reboot
That's exactly what I thought the first time I saw the announcement.
I agree, but that would actually require them to put more thought into the setting and we all know how averse these companies are to doing that.
Like you said, they moved the characters' births up the timeline. That's why Grandpa Lou's a hippie from Vietnam's time rather than a WWII vet, and the anti-police/soldier sentiments of current day pretty much make having him be a Vietnam vet an impossibility because of twitter backlash.
@@wakkaseta8351 Fuck Twitter. People shouldn’t be afraid to make a character a veteran or a law enforcement agent just because it’s hip to hate those professions at the moment. There are plenty of decent folks who are veterans/actively serving servicemen.
You convinced me. I'm not watching it.
We made Susie feel stupid and we took out Kimi/aged her up so Angelica gets a non-threat. Seems sus to me.
Very sus. I can’t do it either
Glad I never gave it a shot, this is an abomination. Even taking off my nostalgia glasses and taking this information all in as just its own thing its still terrible. New gen kids with no knowledge of the original show will probably like this just fine, but theres no way you can enjoy this if your actually aware of the masterpiece that came before it. The 3d on its own is bad enough, not because its 3d, but because of how BAD the 3D is. Like it doesnt have to be Pixar or Disney lvl good because that'd take a ton of money, but even the Amazing World of Gumball has better CGI characters than Rugrats do and Im pretty sure Nick isnt THAT broke that they couldnt afford decent software and ppl who actually put some effort into making this show, especially a childhood classic look good. If I saw this as a child I'd be terrified of these characters ngl, they give serious uncanny valley vibes with Kimmie being the WORST of them all. I dunno if its because shes aged up or just the way they modeled her but my god does she creep me tf out.
Overall hard pass, nobody should waste their time on this and just enjoy the OG series, but if their newbies who never saw the old series then maybe they might actually enjoy it. Watch at yall own risk is all I gotta say.
I can make it sound even worse.
Nickelodeon: We de-aged the black kid and made her be manipulated by the white kid with blonde hair.
@@maximaldinotrap Only to then give power to the asian character. Idk if you can pull any race card here, as sketchy as it seems.
@@johnywaking2757 good point
Angelica manipulating Susie? It's so out of character for Susie to be tricked by Angelica. She is supposed to be the voice of reason who sticks up for the babies.
Thank you!! I noticed that too!
It happened in the original Rugrats too. Most of the time Susie can see through Angelica but every now and then shell get inside Susie's head, making her doubting herself or getting in petty arguments. Remember Angelica is capable of tricking adults for most of an episode, she just works a little harder on Susie
Yeah
Keep in mind Susie is technically younger in this reboot.
@@michellesimmons2756 She's also the smart one in the group so whatever small gain Angelica gets over Susie she can turn it against her
Kimi's look highlights the major issue I have with the reboot's CG look. It just does not mesh well with the show's art style.
Yeah! The eyes on a lot of characters don't look right. Like they dont look alive?
A lot of the characters used to have overbites/have their mouths rlly low on their faces and the reboot just got rid of those so some of the characters look weird
I think it's more that they tried aging Kimi up specifically in CG and it looks bad
They didn't have an Angelica-aged Kimi design to based it off of so yeah it looks spignificantly worse than other characters. At least with Susie there was a family photo
I think the headshapes don't translate well. They just look odd in CG and Tommy's head looks the most off to me. Lacks certain details and they all have huge squirrel cheeks.
@@ncisfan1002 Yeah they did. They just forgot about it.
Something about 3D animation and having every single character having a single black dot as their eye color is super uncanny.
Yeah but I think the more realistic eye would be "scarier". It would end up being unrealistically realistic. It's just gross and gives people the heebie-jeebies.
@@screamingladybug6006 also easier to animate probably
The Peanuts Movie did it well, but otherwise...
Glad to finally see Kimmi back, but unfortunately her original actress Isn't gonna comeback reprising real soon since she now retired.
I didn't know Dionne Kwan ( I hope I spelled it right) retired from voice acting
@@aliceangel7644 At least she wasn't dead due to covid but I would've freaked out and be In tear If the alternative happened.
@@aliceangel7644 KIMMI’s OG voice actress is completely blind. Did anyone know that? All of her scripts are in Braille. As someone with a visual impairment myself, I thought learning that about her was cool!!! Her Headphones when she started gave her three beeps before her lines needed to be said.
If they did bring her out of retirement, they could gotten someone to read the script for her similar what RIP George O'Hanlon did in the '80's at Hanna Barbara.
@@Power-9Hunnid Or have a text to speech software ( like JAWS) to read the script via computer. But shes retired now, hopefully her new VA will do good although it probably won’t have the same gist, willing to hear it out. Im optimistic though.
"I'll always have the original so this reboot can't hurt me."
Me: *Unable to watch even the original powerpuff girls because the reboot won't stop haunting me.*
A bad reboot is just that, a bad reboot. The original is still there. Powerpuff Girls is still awesome.
Pussy. I like ALL PPG series. Original, reboot, anime, whatever. All have their own original and strengths.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 Nope, it's okay for what it is. I like original, I like the reboot, I like the anime. Therefore, I'm a way better person.
@@mesousagaby740 Normally I don't bite on bait like this but I have to ask. Are you really judging your own value of being a good person on liking a cartoon?
@@mesousagaby740 What do cats have to do with anything?
I can't do it, Kimi and Susie being swapped ilks me too much.
Yeah it destroys susies character and makes angelica 10 times more annoying cause now she has nothing holding her back. Before you knew susie would put her in her place
I liked Susie being close to Angelica's age, it made her more of the fun older sister to the babies while Angelica was the mean bully older sister to them
That online delivery episode reminds me of the food delivery episode where Angelica uses a voice changer device that Stu made to order sweets.
Maybe later on in the show, they’ll have an episode where Chuckies dad and Kimi’s mom meet up? Maybe that will be how Kimi and Chucky become step siblings? It just seems weird to me that they wouldn’t have them be step siblings anymore :/
Or since they are making some big changes to the show (Kimi amd Suzie swap ages, Betty is Gay, Howard is gone) they could add Melinda Finster to the show. Would be kinda nice to see how she is.
They will probably end up making Kira a strong single mom or a new GF for Betty. This is 2021/22 after all, they all take plays from the same progressive book, and creativity is completely out the window.
@@mcfry13 What's not more progressive then a interracial couple?
@@brandonlyon730 Gay interracial couple.
@@TheMonk3613 I agree, it would be nice to see more about her character! Since they are making a lot of big changes I don't see why they couldn't bring her back
Angelica might be the only character that seems like shes still the same as her 90s character.
Petition to add Duffy and Delivery Guy to nickelodeon all star brawl pls.
I wish they had just made a sequel of the existing Rugrats canon where Tommy and the others are now full-grown adults and the stories now focus on their own kids going on their own adventures. This reboot just feels too jarring if you're already familiar with the original.
I agree with you @no one
@Ik Exactly! Like, duh, it's not that hard. Hell, they could even have that one guy's drawings of the adult Rugrats to use as a baseline for their designs.
Yes. A sequel to All grown up...with the characters ALL GROWN UP.
With kids of their own...
Here's the problem I see already: Susie was like a protector being Angelicas age. Angelica would never be in trouble from Didi because she always dealt with her aloof rather than punishment.
This reboot is fine for kids but the original is a masterpiece at least until the dil episodes
Thank you! Always hated the Dil episodes, even as a kid. I agree about Susie and Angelica, too
The best part of Rugrats is Angelica being the foil for the gang , and Suzie being her's , their rivalry was entertaining , Suzie being the opposite of Angelica , having multiple siblings she probably learned how things work and proper life values while Angelica being an only child was spoiled and sheltered.
Idk why they decided to alter it. And Kimi being relegated to a mere side character instead. Her relationship with Chuckie was a sweet thing to remember and imo one of the best parts of Post Germain era of the show.
Idk if it’s because I’m growing up and in my head I’m not speaking outta nostalgia. But the CGI is just too hard to watch. The modernization is difficult. However, I think it would be interesting to hear the opinion from my little cousin tho.
Claskycsupo shows were special because of the weird, janky animation and designs. It's just not the same with these smooth rounded cg models.
I think the CGI could be worse honestly and I usually hate CGI. My concern is with what they’ve done with Susie…
Unfortunately, we’re all going through that inevitable transition in life called aging. This show is no where near as great as the original, which really spoke to multiple generations of audiences when it first came out, and had the absolute best of voice talent and storytelling. This new series is just OK in some areas, but still falls flat in others.
I don't mind the models or art style too much, but it looks dark. The original show was so colorful and vibrant, but this looks like it has this dark shade to it
"I Dream of Duffy"
Basically that same episode where Angelica learned how to speed-dial food from Grandpa Lou.
Was a good episode because as a smol I didn't understand how credit cards worked and that everything Angelica ordered would eventually have to be paid for.
Cool reviews
On the note of how much they changed in regards to this reboot; it seriously begs the question of - if they were going to change most of the characters _this drastically_ why not just do an original show instead of rebooting the Rugrats? Because seriously, the only reason they're using the Rugrats IP is just for attention that they don't deserve.
The problem with this Reboot is that by trying to make a "modern day version" of Rugrats, it's _immediately_ going to date itself. The "technology crawl" in the original wasn't meant to reflect reality - it's meant to either show characterization or how wacky and fantastic technology in this world could get.
Example; Stu keeps coming up with insane inventions for relatively simple things, while Grandpa Lou can't even work a Calculator.
The original show may have landlines and box televisions and no video games, but that's going to be far more _timeless_ than this show that has cellphones, livestreams and flat-screens - because stuff like that gets replaced every six months. The technology is no longer part of the fun or characterization - it's just _there_ because it "has to be."
And another fault I see with this show is the fact that each of the changes to the adults feels like a _political statement._
In the original, Lou was a World War II vet - literally a part of the greatest generation...and yet was so incompetent that he ended up sleeping through key points of the war.
Here...he's a _hippie._ So instead of being someone who fought in war, he's been reduced to a beatnik who complains about War.
In the original Stu was a bit of a man-child, yes; but his immaturity as an adult fueled his creativity for his inventions and why he was able to come up with a lot of fantastic ideas. (His big problem was trying to sell those ideas as toys, when he could've patented whole new forms of engineering.)
But now, his "Man-Childness" has been interpreted into being a Gamer. And that disappoints me because his immaturity isn't being used for creativity but instead showing a stubborn refusal to grow-up and mature. And worse, Di-Di seems to have devolved as well, considering that she's trying to be a live-streamer.
I think the less said about Betty, the better. I don't have a problem with Betty being a Lesbian in this series; heck I'm sure at some point most of us assumed that she was in the original. The problem comes in when you consider that in order for Betty to be brought "out of the closet," a character _had to die._
The show conveniently handwaves the existence of Howard - Phil and Lil's father - and treats him like he never existed. Therein lies a problem when you want to reinvent a character to fit a political ideology and then have to literally axe whatever relationship they may have previously had; they're trying to fit a square box into a round hole - and the way they did it was by shaving off the corners and edges until it just barely fit.
Now of course we don't know the context of where Howard is; maybe he and Betty got divorced when she realized she was gay; though I don't see why Betty should be allowed sole or full custody of the kids when her being Gay is neither his fault nor reflective on his ability to be a good father. Though if Howard does make an appearance, I highly doubt the movie will explore the nuances of being a single divorced father who is most likely being alienated from his children by the mother. Maybe Howard and Betty ended on better terms than that; but I can't help but feel the implications there would be that she'd be using him just to have children and ditched him when she got what she wanted. Who knows, maybe the best outcome for Howard in this really is to be dead.
And then there's the fact that they switched Kimmie and Susie's ages...It made sense to drop Susie down to the Baby's age-group, so that she'd be less able to protect the other kids from Angelica. But with introducing Kimmie, it was like they realized too late that they put Susie into Kimmie's role and now had no place for her. So now they could only put her in the one place they could. I am a bit curious if in future episodes they will reveal that Chaz has secretly been dating Kimmie's mom and wants to marry her, just so Chuckie and Kimmie will be step-sibs again.
Also, none of these characters work in 3D- their heads look too wide and too round. Let's hope that Dil doesn't make it into the show because he will look _terrifying._
Not every remake is gonna be exactly like the original.
@@roxassora2706 pls you literally didn’t read anytbing
@@michellesimmons2756 who’s going too. He might as well write a book
@@roxassora2706 If you're not gonna carry on the original, make something new. Oh shit... yeah that takes effort. Something people don't wanna actually put in to MAKE something new. They just want to take an already existing IP and slap their own ideas onto it. That's what people with no talent do.
Ok. This is serious. THEY. DID. NOT. GET. RID. OF. HOWARD.
2:24 didn’t Angelica already do something similar back in the 90s when she was abusing food ordering with Stu’s voice modulator?
Edit: 3:48 also, there was a similar episode where they went inside Chuckie to get a watermelon seed.
That's right, that's because although this is a seperate continuity, there are callbacks to old episodes for the adults watching.
The show should have had a brand new baby cast and the adults should have been the old babies. Would have been way more interesting
No just no, we don't need another sequel with the main cast having kids, it's just too cliche.
@@pecahalloween it's better than this trash Reboot
That would've made much more sense
I wouldn’t have minded that. It would have been cute to see Tommy as a grown up, how his child could be like him, or the total opposite and be a big scaredy cat that wants to be like his Dad. So many options. And they gave us this. Or just a new cast of tots entirely.
That's something I'd actually be curious to check out, unlike this reboot!
I didn't grow up in the 90s. I wasn't born until 2002. I entered an "I hate everything new, I only want 90s stuff" phase in 2010-12. I loved Rugrats as a kid, and to this day, it is my favorite cartoon of all time.
To see the timeline screwed up like this, ruining my favorite character from the series in the process, makes me feel sad.
Which is your favorite character ?
I’ve decided that this reboot is for the new generation of kids. I’ll always have the original near and dear to my heart. Personally I think it would have been better to just have a new cast of babies with the original cast being the grown up parents but I digress
For real tho. It would have been a natural progression from Rugrats to all grown up to new Rugrats. But nooooo don't take our word for it. 🙄
YESSSSS
I WOULD BE SO PLEASED WITH THAT
ANYTHING THAT MEANS I DON’T HAVE TO LISTEN TO MY FAVORITE CHARACTER HAVING A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VOICE AS A BABY
Gag. The new generation shouldn't get stuck with this horse shit
@@CosplayCore All of the kids, except Kimi have the same voice actor they did before. Dionne Quan was only recast because she was retired. It's the parents that were recast.
I just realized that Duffy is a reference to the original show's director, Jim Duffy who passed away in 2012
Wow.really?
Stu being 33 gives me existential dread and I needed a moment to contemplate the last three and a half decades of my life
Psh, Stu is worried about ONE grey hair at 33?
By age 23 my hair had turned completely grey. I have to dye my roots every 2 weeks. It’s a genetic thing, my dad turned grey in his 20’s, too.
I'm not much younger than him and I'm full of grey hairs. Stu is weak and will not survive the winter.
Grey hair looks fuckin gorgeous. I'm hoping mine goes that route.
Wow you’re beautiful
I knew a kid with grey hairs at age 17, but it was because of finals stress.
It just makes you look older than you really are. Natural gray hair is a sign of wisdom and experience.
its just soulless you can tell how much love went into the old ones, staff even bickered about appropriate storylines cause they cared. i doubt the writers even remember what episode they wrote with this one just like how the teen titans go writers are
Most of the same personnel as the old “Rugrats” are involved with the “Rugrats” reboot. It’s presence shows since it mostly keeps in touch with the same vibe as the original.
@@consumeroftoons2119 Many of the writers are the same but the reboot clearly had a lot of input from the higher-ups at Nickelodeon. They completely changed many characters personalities and major aspects from the original series that just make this reboot feel like nothing but a cash grab. They made Betty a lesbian even though she was happily married to Howard in the original series and the spin off All Grown Up, which took place 10 years in the future. It wouldn't have been an issue if it was implied in the original series that Betty wasn't attracted to Howard and they were friendly co-parents in the reboot but that wasn't the case. They just got rid of Howard and reinforced the stereotype that if a woman is a tomboy, she has to be lesbian. The change to her sexuality was definitely just to check the box of "gay character" for the sake of 'diversity'. They made Didi just a generic mommy vlogger even though her overly worried personality made her make some hilarious decisions in the original (her obsession with Dr Lipschitz). They changed grandpa Lou's entire backstory from a retired WWII veteran into a hippy, which did nothing but essentially make him a different character. They made Susie younger less intelligent, confident, and witty. She is basically just a generic baby now even though her being able to outsmart Angelica was what made her interesting. They reduced Kimmie to a side character, changed her age for no reason, and made her not Chuckie's sister. This takes away a lot of Chuckie's character development as an older brother and now he doesn't have a mom. Stu was originally a hardworking inventor, who did have a bit of a childish side, but he did his best to be productive and succeed. Now he is much less of a hardworking inventor and more of a very childish man who just wants to play video games and refuses to grow up. They didn't even ask the original adult voice actors to reprise their roles. Instead they highered completely new ones who sound nothing like the originals. This is a big problem because a character's distinct voice is a huge part of what identifies them in animated shows. They completely changed the artstyle to a cheaper looking 3D but didn't bother to make a lot of the character designs look properly like the 2D designs. As a result there is always something off about the way that characters look, especially the adults. They also changed the time period from the 1990's to 2020's and made modern technology more of a focus than it ever was in the original. This takes away a lot of the timeless charm of the original series. The only thing that is relatively consistent is the story structure for the babies' adventures and even that was hindered in the reboot. As stated, Susie's introduction to the original show was very significant because it introduced a new and interesting dynamic to the babies' relationship with Angelica and the adults. She was older so she could communicate with everyone. This meant that she was actually a threat to Angelica because she could put a stop to her plans by either outsmarting her or telling the adults about her. With Susie there, it meant Angelica's schemes would have to be more creative or she would have to figure out a way to distract Susie. Sometimes the babies could even get revenge on Angelica with Susie's help and she actually got punished for bullying. Now Angelica has no foil at all and the protagonists (babies) are nearly powerless against her. Honestly none of the changes the reboot made helped the show and they were so drastic that it barely even feels like the same show. If they wanted to change so much, they should have just had new baby characters and the babies as their parents.
@@AuraKumo104 ALL OF THIS! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@@AuraKumo104 Alot of your assumptions are based on the misinformation that has carelessly spread around it. Nickelodeon was not culpable in the writing decisions that went on during the production of the reboot, the writers brainstormed these ideas themselves. In contrast to what some believe, this isn't in the same continuity as the original show. While yes, most of the original players are back, it's a reboot structured along the lines of "DuckTales", where it has some similarities to the original show, but has it's own continuity that departs from the old show. The writers had to go this route, because while the bulk of the current Rugrats fanbase consists of adults, Nickelodeon's demographic is 6-11. If they jumped right back into where the series left off, today's kids would get confused, and lightening probably wouldn't have striked twice. The Jungle Movie (while it was great) performed well with adults, but underperformed with the 6-11 mindset.
Most of the changes are exclusive towards the adults, since the babies themselves, and Angelica haven't really changed much, beyond switching Kimi and Susie's ages. The media storm regarding Betty's sexuality change was mainly stirred up to outrage conservatives, and garner a repeat of the Elmer Fudd controversy. The show really doesn't make a big deal out of her sexuality at all, or hardly even mention it, nor does she act stereotypical. Most of the Rugrats team suspected she was LGBT, even when the original show was in production, they just couldn't outright depict it, since society was alot more prejudiced towards LGBT representation in the 90s. You also have to keep in mind that alot of people who work on Rugrats are LGBT themselves, and they approved of this change. It wasn't done with malicious intent, or to be "woke". Howard isn't gone from the show either, the second batch of episodes have hinted towards his reappearance, and there is a plan for all of this.
Some of the adults had to be retweaked, because many of their personalities in classic Rugrats reflected Baby Boomer/Gen X parenting styles. The reboot is set in a floating timeline as you've said, and in order to make the reboot resonate with a modern day audience, they've had to change some of the adults' occupations to better depict parenting situations today. If they kept their occupations from the 90s/early 2000s, it would feel stuck in the 90s, and wouldn't resonate nearly as much. Didi is still high on edge in the reboot, and Stu still is an inventor. They've just made him a gamer in conjunction with his enthusiasm for inventing (One of the storylines for the new Rugrats shows highly revolves around an invention Stu built that goes horribly wrong) They didn't mitigate the impact of "Rugrats in Paris", because this continuity is separate from that of the 1991-2006 series. Kimi is a side character right now, because they're reestablishing characters in different ways to make it stand out more from the original. If they reintegrated them the exact same way, it'd be accused of rehashing the same material, and that's not what people come to a reboot for. To recapitulate what I said, the crew do have a plan in regards to renewing dynamics. Kimi isn't Chuckie's stepsister yet, but that doesn't mean she won't be later along the line. She wasn't immediately Chuckie's stepsister during her introduction, and came in later towards the series' run. We're only 13 episodes in. It's a 26 episode season, with an additional second season coming.
The character designs are consistent of that of the original series, but some of the characters' noses had to be reworked in order to make these designs translate better to 3D, since they have a huge workaround. "Rugrats" has a wonky artstyle, it's a trademark of the show's look, so naturally, the 3D aesthetic would emulate that. Modern technology was obviously going to be introduced, since it's common for reboots, or new episodes of shows from the 90s and 2000s to feature newer tech, but it's only when it becomes the main source of the writing, that it becomes a problem. It's hardly the main selling point, and when it is featured as part of the plot, it's mainly used to support it, not the tour de force. I was apprehensive about Susie being aged down, because I was concerned about her no longer being Angelica's adversary, but not long after I started to watch the reboot, I saw that Susie being aged down slightly doesn't hamper her character in the slightest. She's still resourceful (A major trademark of her personality in the new show, like the old show is her intelligence), confident, stands up to Angelica, and makes clever remarks. The only change is that she's non-verbal to the adults, so that she's included more in the show's plots, and she wouldn't be able to inform the adults on Angelica's schemes. She continues to be Angelica's foil, and is the one baby (Second in command to Tommy if you will) that isn't easily deterred by Angelica. Basically the same, minus the ability to talk to the adults.
The crux of the show is experiencing the world for the first time thru a baby's experience. Portraying the babies as 30 year old parents raising their own children would meddle with the original Rugrats' vision. So, it only makes sense that they're still babies in this version.
The reboot is soulless, yes, but it's overall a decent show in my opinion. The original animation is fluid and charming as if we are glimpsed on the characters like the eyes of a fly which it's why Klasky-Csupo is great.
Will you ever cover the Rugrats in Paris movie since that is where kimi first showed up?
That movie is still iconic
One of the best films Nickelodeon has ever made, and one of the major high points of the series overall.
I foresee Kimi starting as just friends with the kids and Chas and Kira developing their relationship over a more realistic period of time, leading up to Chuckie and Kimi having a strong sibling relationship built on the foundation of preexisting friendship.
That makes a lot of sense.
This Rugrats Reboot it's wacky I'll stick to the original series
Same LOL
Honestly, I LOVE that Josh (who had ONE episode in the original series toward the very end of the first 65) and Kimi coexist. The McNultys only had one appearance in the Kimi era and disappeared. I know that families move away, but that was nonsense.
Also Daxton is pretty cool.
“You don’t care about that personal stuff”
Hope you get to go to conventions again soon :)
the single change that felt weird was Susie not being Angelicas age, was a dynamic I really enjoyed,
I actually would have loved a reboot of the one where they were teenagers that would have made more sense with all this modern tech stuff
All Grown Up deserves more love
@@Pooky1991
The main problem with All Grown Up is that the characters are boring except Angelica and Dil
@@morbidsearch Completely disagree
"Stu finds a gray hair at 33" I'll be lucky if I have hair by 33 lol I've been finding grays since puberty.
I'm only 32 and I'm just starting to get some gray hair popping up. Lucky that it wasn't in my early 20s. And my younger cousins unfortunately inherited my grandpa's DNA, aka, my grandpa was pretty much bald by the time he was 22. My cousins aren't completely bald but their hairlines have definitely receded and my other cousin has hair plugs. I'd rather have gray hair than no hair!
The recurring delivery guy and reuse of background characters in general leads me to believe they absolutely only have a small number of character models to work with.
I refuse to watch it because what they did to deedees parents. Werent they originally designed to be the creators grandparents? Now they are stereotypes
It's funny, Grandpa Boris was criticized as supposedly being an anti-Semitic Jewish stereotype to some organization, despite being based on one of the creator's parents.
@@sonikku956 anti-Semitic? I mean He's Jewish, There's even that Passover episode. Why would someone call the character anti-semetic ?
@@Gatorade69 Creator offending their own
The tribe eats their own
@@Gatorade69 I think the story back then was that the ADL asserted he resembled designs used in a Nazi-era comic. The creators AND the head of Nick at the time (Jewish) were like "uh, what" but then the person who ran Nick next (not Jewish AFAICT) was like "I agree, we're sorry" and then made some promises regarding Boris at least? (This was, like, 1999 after a different situation related to the comic that raised the same assertion again.) So maybe that's part of the vibe behind choosing to redesign them.
Every month something new reminds me how old I'm getting, but nothing has made me feel quite as old as Stu being 33.
So Rugrats in Paris is being retconned then.
Nooo!!!
No it isn't. This is a reboot not a continuation
tiny thing i love about these videos is the original cut aways from Nickalodian. It hits right in the nostalgia
Anyone else hate that they deleted Didi’s career :( She was a high school teacher
What's sad is, in 2021 she probably has more earnings potential as a blogger than as a high school teacher
No, what I hate is the fact that they chucked Lipschitz out to make her a blogger instead of having her obsessively consult Lipschitz' daughter, who inherited her father's work (and by extension, moms like Didi.).
@@eatatjoes6751 My guess Is one of the creators or writers have "No Dr. Lipschitz!" In their contract
@Will N I think it was to show that just because you're *in* the field doesn't mean you're an *expert* in that field or smart - which adds to the irony that she kept consulting him for quack advice.
@@eatatjoes6751 yeah them doing made it seem like they were first time parents always looking to lipshitz for advice which adds to their characters
A moment of silence for the real Boris and Minka.
I have soo many Issues with Kimmy in this reboot.
Why did you age down Suzzy, if you are going to age up Kimmy to replace her?
It's soo backwards, It's changing stuff for the sake of change.
It's the equivalent of Making a reboot of Rocko's Modern Life, Making Heffer a germophobe and cowardly Bull; and Filbert a fat, dumb, hungry turtle.
You're not creating new scenarios by doing this, you're just exchanging one characther for another and acting like you did something meaningful, You didn't, you just make things more confusing for everyone watching.
It's because they wanted an every episode black person to please the screeching white people.
-a blackspanic who hates this reboot
I started to hate that reboot 😡
Susie reason makes sense in the way that she could easily foil Angelica's schemes. Just by talking to the adults or translating between the rugrats and the adults
They're not playing musical chairs, and playing role reversal just to make changes for the sake of it. The writers are wise enough not to do that,. Susie's character is unchanged from what it was in the original, with the only changes being that she's a year younger and can't talk to the adults. That's to bring in larger writing obstacles, because if she tattled on Angelica, then the story would be over and done with and make things too formulaic. Susie's original personality is preserved, but with some extra dimension to her personality because she's a main character now.
Susie wasn't above having naive moments in the original, and hung around with the babies more than anyone else her age except Angelica. So this change has more merit than one would think. Kimi hasn't replaced Susie, but she's been aged up a year to permit her to have her own character beyond being near identical to Tommy like she was in the original. Making her Angelica's moral guardian, someone who believes in her but wants her to make wise choices, is a wise evolution because she employs the qualities people liked about her before, but with the chance to disentangle by having a singular personality.
I have an idea that people might think is dumb. They should bring back All Grown Up. Have a few seasons of them where they're 10-13 then have episodes of them actually growed up like adults.
Betty is now a lesbian for some reason, I guess Howard is the twins sparm donor
I just found your channel and am so glad I did! My family and I all sat and started binge watching your videos. Rugrats legit was one of my favorite cartoons but i have yet to watch the reboot. Keep up the amazing work, we are all rooting for you!
Thank you so much! I truly appreciate the support!
Stu must've lived a pretty good, stress-free live if 33 is when he is getting grey hairs.
I loved rugrats as a kid but I don’t know about the 3D animation. It’s a little weird since we are not use to all of tech that is used in the reboot it’s a little weird
I loved watching rugrats as a kid but I don’t know if I like the 3D animation that is used and that they intigrated all of the technology that is used in the 21st century. It’s a little weird but also interesting at the same time. Also your Pokémon card collection is totally cool
This is another case of some things simply not lending themselves to 3D animation. The original show had a very sketchy, simple look which lended itself only to 2D animation. When it's polished up and put into 3D it looks hollow and weird. Sadly though, it's cheaper and that's all that matters to corporations
Kinda sounds like how my grandparents absolutely hated the Scooby Doo movies (starting with Witches Ghost/Zombie Island, I forget which was first) because they simply had shading and music from the era they were made in. 3D seems cheap, but it's just a stylistic choice. Makes toys easier to be on model too. Kids enjoy that
They should have saved the 3D budget for a Jimmy netron revival
What's next? Dill aged up by a year and can communicate with the rest of the gang than being a new born?
Lol wouldn't mind hearing Tara Strong as him again
While I'm hesitant, I'm also curious about how the age changes impact the group dynamics, especially when it comes to Susie and Kimi. I really hope they bring Kimi back into the main, especially through the blended family approach b/c of how impactful that was back in the day.
we were already robbed of Crotchety "fifteen miles through the snow" Grandpa Lou
please tell me we aren't going to get robbed of Yiddish Grandpa Boris
I still think it should've been about the babies of the original cast. Imagine some contrasts you could do; Chuckie's son is the bully, Angelica's daughter is the leader, Tommy's son is the coward, and Phil and/or Lil's kids hate dirt and insects.
I am amused by the idea of "fearless Tommy Pickles" becoming an overprotective dad. I doubt any of the characters aside from Angelica and Susie would really remember the events of the original series, but it'd be interesting if those adventures became more horrifying in hindsight. Granted, a lot of them were imagined...but imagine Tommy eating lunch one day and being hit with the realization that his parents just let him take his newborn brother into the woods.
Oh! And for some reason, I imagine Tommy having a daughter.
That sounds fun to brainstorm how it could go; producers were really missing out on an opportunity to use their imaginations and come up with something fun. But their goal is to mine nostalgia, not come up with fun ideas.
I can’t wait for this bleak era of reboots to be over. I don’t know why people thought this was a good idea. It only upsets the OG followers of the shows/movies and like… who are they for? Our kids could watch the original.
If the original product is good it will be timeless and rugrats is one of those properties. It’s still so entertaining to this day.
Creativity has been lost in this industry.
Well getting them once in a while isn't so bad, like Ducktales is a great example
Rugrats 2021 is a Disaster like everything is so different that Kimi out of nowhere gone up to 3 years old alongside Angelica. I appreciate that they added her but I really don't get why they would increase her age by 1, It's like both Susie and Kimi switched places.
Actually they made Kimi closer to 2 years older because in the original series Angelica is 3 and a few months and Kimmie is exactly 1 year and 6 months old. Kimmie is about 6 months younger than Chuckie.
I don't mind them aging up Kimi, but why make Susie younger? I don't understand the decision. If Kimi is meant to fill Susie's old role as the voice of reason against Angelica, then why not just keep Susie...? Plus, Kimi and Chuckie had such a cute stepsibling relationship, since Chuckie was filling the older sibling role and it helped give him some character development. Gosh and Kira was so cute with Chas :(.
Now he will never know what it’s like to have a mom or sibling. They are just never going to address the sadness chas and chuckie feel regarding the loss of his mom.
Damn, thanks for reminding me why Rugrats in Paris was such a great movie.
They wanted Susie in the main cast
I feel I would like this reboot more if it was just flat out new characters with how much they've changed and added
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm glad this show is an alternate universe/timeline than the original. This reboot is not for me. Great video anyway Jordan! As always! It's still nice to be updated on the latest episodes.
I think what would have been interesting for Kimi is for her mom and Chaz to be having a long distance relationship, hinting that she's going to move there soon. Obviously changes how they meet, but would fit with the more technological way they're doing it. Maybe the episode is the adults trying to set him up with someone, not believing when he says he's with someone, before she calls at the end of the episode.
The only thing I can think of is they're setting up kimi to be the older sibling. In the show All Grown Up kimi started to break away from the little sister trope after awhile with her plotlines and behaviorand chuckie had problems that almost aged him down. It got to a weird point in the series where it felt like kimi was intended to be older like Angelica, with her mannerisms etc, but they were stuck with her being a younger sibling.
ouch that Angelica moment of being put down by her mother while her uncle praised her and made her feel proud of what she did really made me feel bad for her
Duffy > Delivery Guy
honestly if the writers are having fun with it in the structure of corporate show writing thats good and im glad for them. i wouldnt have pitched this reboot like this. they make enough characters completely new characters that i would still have just pitched the rugrats REALLY all grown up and their kids hanging out. reboots are always an attempt to pander to an already established audience and i think the best way to pander to old rugrats fans and possible new viewers would be to make the old rats roughly 30 or so and give their kids a new story to tell.
but we get what we get and if some people enjoy it thats cool and if i dont personally like it i can continue working on my own ideas and make something i do like.
Jordan: all these changes feel weird
* Puts on glasses *
Wrong, ah that’s better
The show seems like a solid cartoon for what it is. Not a fan of some of the voices. Also, as good as the 3D is, the hand drawn style of the original series is just so charming and fun to rewatch. To be fair, there's only so much they can do to make a show about babies appeal to the adults who grew up with it without aging the rugrats even more. Overall, the show seems fine.
I haven't watched a single episode of the reboot so seeing a younger Susie and an older Kimi does trip me out. Susie was originally made to be the niceness to bounce off from Angelica's bratty personality. As far as Kimi being Angelica's age also feels odd to me too, She felt like she was made to give Chucky a little step sister to later look up to Chucky in All Grown-Up. I think they are making Kimi and Susie switch roles of Kimi being the nicer older kid who the babies hang out with. Maybe Kimi will still become Chucky's step sister but having her as the older one will just still seem weird
I think they’re trying to pander to today’s inclusion initiatives. Oh and making Betty a lesbian sounds like stereotyping. Just because she’s tough and surly doesn’t mean she’s gay.
I get the feeling that making Suzy younger was to have a consistent non-white character, which wouldn’t bug me at all except the fact that they switched her out with Kimi who is Asian, does being a pale non-European now mean you don’t count as representation? Her addition in the original series was so important in terms of representation, even more so the fact we got a bi racial marriage and step sibling representation, if she doesn’t end up being Chucky’s step sister they’ll have written out the shows preexisting diversity. Asians seem to get their representation taken away a lot nowadays, which doesn’t make sense if representation is the goal, why not push for equal representation rather than having to choose between coloured characters as if there can only ever be one.
Suzy was also a great character to challenge Angelica, if they wanted her to be in more episodes for representation they really could have just done so without the role/age swapping, I loved Suzy’s and Angelica’s dynamic, it was also nice to see a healthy “big sister” archetype that wasn’t antagonistic like Angelica, interacting with the babies. The girls watching got an aspirational female character through her too. But even if they kept the changes to Suzy, at least don’t take away Kimi’s role, just have them both there! Double representation, why would they not prefer that?
As for Betty, her relationship with Howard was already good representation of how a married couple didn’t have to fit the assertive husband/submissive wife trope, we had a strong and openly feminist female who was more masculine in appearance and attitude with a soft, sensitive and reserved husband of a small non-masculine stature. I agree it’s an awful (and lazy) way to bring lesbian representation into a show by always choosing the most masculine female. Not all lesbians are masculine. So I hope that’s not the show’s intention - perhaps they’re going to go down the separated parents route, but even that is erasing the idea a non traditional gender dynamic can exist healthily in a marriage.
When rebooting a show with iconic, pre-established marriages there’s not really room to bring lesbian or gay representation via those characters without the destruction of those marriages and/or complete erasure of an existing character, especially ones that are already progressive representation in their own right. Is that REALLY the only way to add representation? It shouldn’t be. Really good writers and character designs could bring in lgbt+ representation via new characters without it being out of place.
Besides, this show and it’s characters was so diverse for its time, if not still more diverse than most modern shows. This reboot could do lgbt+ rep on top of that diversity if the creators truly felt it required it, it’s just a shame if they decide to do it via Betty instead of new characters.
@@Sanakudou I think them making one of the characters a lesbian is neat. But I also feel it was done more for brownie points. Maybe they can expand on how she found out.
I'm a queer woman and I honestly thought the way they went about the Betty thing really sucked. Betty and Howard were my favorite couple out of the adults because Betty and her empowerment and assertiveness was awesome to see juxtaposed with her husband's more mild and meek nature. They both were breaking gender stereotypes while being supposedly straight, which just showed that even hetero people don't HAVE to be the typical gender-conforming normies that they're expected to be. And really, it would have been great to see a hetero male character who was allowed to be "effeminate" without being made into a joke or a gay stereotype. Not to mention taking the most non-feminine female character in the show and just being like "welp, OBVIOUSLY she has to be a lesbian now" comes off as reductive and insulting. They could have just as easily made any of the other female adults lesbians -- why Betty? Is it just because she looks "butch"? Hmmm....
It's very obvious the showrunners just wanted to score points with certain groups without actually giving a shit about what they're actually doing or the messages they're sending. Very cringe. Honestly I think it would've been a better idea to make both Chas AND Kira gay. They could've had an entire arc where the other parents are trying to get Chas back into dating again, thinking he's straight, and he ends up on a date with Kira, who is also closeted, and over time they become best friends and come to terms with not being straight together! They could help each other go on dates and have a special bond as the only 2 single parents in their friend group. Basically they would both fill the missing roles in each other's lives without being a traditional hetero married family unit. Would've been much more interesting than what they actually did.
@@BOFAMET Making Chaz gay would turn his beloved late wife into a beard. And Kira becoming gay would be nothing but a way to tick boxes of brownie points (Asian and lesbian: check and check).
@@iloveutubesince3207 Didn't ask. Chaz's late wife was barely even a character so nobody would really give a shit either way. Also I didn't realize Asian women weren't capable of being gay? I'm not white AND I'm queer, is my existence just some "brownie points" for.... God, I guess?
Honestly you sound like someone who just has issues with gay people in media. Just another side of the same cringe coin.
I think the best summary is "it's not, it's just lacking but overall okay, The changes and alterations vary from fine to confusing depending if the viewer grew up with the original series when it aired on Nick"
I've had a strange relationship with this reboot.
Growing up, Rugrats was always "that one show" to me.
That one show that stuck with me.
That one show I never stopped watching.
That one show I would watch again if more came out.
But when the reboot came out in May this year, I just....didn't.
Apart from not being subscribed to Paramount+, the fact they removed Kimi and Kira was more disappointing than I expected.
While I admit Kimi was a Tommy clone, and Kira didn't have much of a character, it means that my favourite Rugrats movie, focusing on my favourite Rugrats character, never happened.
It was released in cinemas. When a regular cartoon made it onto the big screen back then it meant something.
I don't think people HAVE to be married, I don't think children NEED and Mum and a Dad, they have Betty to represent single parenting, so why take Chazs' wife away?
If the next set of episodes are made, Kimi becomes semi-regular, and Kira makes an appearance, I'll subscribe and watch it. Who knows, maybe their romance can happen over multiple episodes and have time to develop. A viewer can dream.
Addition: Given the preschool Kimi went to, if they make Kira a stereotypical Asian parent, something is going to be broken.
Kimi wasn't a Tommy clone though and I don't know why people say that. She never had a screw driver in her nappy and she wasn't the strong leader that Tommy is.
To me Kimi is a bit more optimistic of people than Suzie, since Kimi would sometimes side with Angelica. Though unlike Angelica, she doesn't mean to be bad, she's just having fun. Kimi also has a sensitive protective older brother to help her get out of trouble.
This is why the dynamic is ruined in the reboot, since younger Kimi works better than older Kimi.
@@YujiUedaFan Eh as much as I love Kimi she's somewhat a clone
@@YujiUedaFan You make a good point. I was trying to pre-empt the comments some people might make in reply, people who think the show went downhill after they introduced new characters (I didn't mind personally, even back then I liked shows where the story progressed).
I have recently turned 30 (within the last week) and grown with Rugrats. Rugrats is even older than me as first aired before I was born.
I refuse to even watch 1 episode of this shit show. It will haunt me forever if I do.
Let's leave the past in the past.
Keep those great memories from the old episodes and not to butcher any of it.
I don’t like how they stunted susie, she was literally a perfect counter to Angelica and a fully developed character in her own right. And the whole swapping Suki and Susies age thing is very strange
Gotta agree with Jordan here, Kimmy showing up here feels wrong enough that even if the show is good, it bugs me. It’s all a product of nostalgia, I know, and if it’s good I hope some kids grow up enjoying it like we did, but it’s hard to get over some of these changes.
Honestly love your review and intro. That animation was so smooth!
This and Kamp Koral makes me wonder why the switch to 3D? Im pretty sure its not easier/cheaper so it is weird that they do it. But I guess its better than dumbing down and going with a very simplistic art style such as Cartoon Network has been doing
That was Nickelodeon's decision. Originally, the reboot was going to be done in 2D, since it was greenlit during the Sarah Levy interrim. But when Ramsey Naito became VP of Nick Animation, she thought the switch to 3D would make the reboot more attractive to today's kids. At first, Eryk Casemiro and Kate Boutilier (the reboot showrunners) were unsure of it, but once they found models they thought would stick, they ran with it.
I’m okay with changes, but it has to be changes that make sense. Here neither nick nor KLasKYCSUPO added anything that people liked
@@remixchild They make more sense, when you realize that this isn't even a soft reboot. It's more of a hard reboot, like DuckTales, where it's based in it's own continuity, with some loving nods to the original series.
@@consumeroftoons2119 with duck tales I can understand what they were trying to do. Who literally asked for this?!
@@remixchild Back in the 2010s, there were plenty of people who asked for a Rugrats reboot, and when the initial announcement was made in 2018, there was alot of hype. Even early this year, alot of people were excited for it. It was one of the shows that was high in demand for Nickelodeon to bring back.
Recapitulating what I said, this was the best route they could take. Since the original show did just about everything it could do, having a continuity reset was a sensible choice, because when you reboot a show like "Rugrats", you've got to take into account that the 6-11 mindset is unfamiliar with the original show, and if they followed on from where it left off, it might be lost on them, since there's 9 seasons of worth of catching up on. It would be a repeat of "The Jungle Movie" underperforming. (Even though TJM was good)
It worked out in the long run, since they changed some of the adult characters in order to fit within the 2010s timeframe, but kept the babies mostly the same, and the writing consistent. Appealing to both sets of audiences, without relying too much on nostalgia, and staying true to the original vision of the show. Which is the best way to reboot a classic show.
I was so happy when Kimi came on screen. She came out of nowhere.
Angelica: Go back inside!!!!
(Random girl appears on screen)
You: Why does she look so familiar?
Girl: Hi, I'm Kimi Watanabe.
You: KIMI IS BACK YESSSSS
Modernized tech in Rugrats feels so cursed but if it can stand on its own two feet that's good
when your grew up watching this show and now you’re almost Stu’s age…… god i feel old….
I’m still just waiting until Dil shows up in this reboot.
I'll admit, the "Duffy" is clever because Jim Duffy was a big player in the original series.
In the Rugrats reboot, Susie is younger than Angelica and the only child of her family while Kimi is the same age as Angelica and not Chuckie's stepsister.
I think it's a very interesting change. Considering they were introduced after the beginning, I can't wait to see what happens with Dil.
I'll never understand why they swapped Kimi and Suzie's ages when Suzie was the foil for Angelica
The animation from the Rugrats reboot looks like something I’d see on Robot Chicken.
The 3d models are really nice. Makes me wish we had a spiritual sucessor from the ps1 game with this graphics for kids today.
Wandering the house as tommy, reliving past episodes to obtain pieces for a jigsaw puzzle. ^^
If the reboot keeps up it's success, we might get some video games out of it.
Seeing Kimi in this series does actual psychic damage; her model falls into the uncanny Valley for the character.
I'll always prefer the original 2d style for Rugrats just saying 👀
Did you know that the Rugrats was also a Nick Jr Show?
That final eclipse episode was so good
You know, I have a question about Rugrats that I've always wondered...
Do you, as an expert on the subject of Rugrats, think that the infamous Dr. Lipschitz's name is a play on words because his advice is always crap?