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Post by everythingkp on Jun 18, 2016 0:16:10 GMT -5
So at this point I think if Kim Possible were to come back it would realistically return as a reboot. In that case I was just curious as to what you guys think the reboot should keep the same and what should be done differently. My number one would be have Kim and Ron become a couple much earlier in the series so that we can get more episodes with them dating being a factor, and just more moments with those too altogether. I think the animation also needs to done with care because the animation was fantastic in the original series. These are just a couple of my thoughts but I would love to hear everyone else's!
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Post by christhecynic on Jun 18, 2016 6:30:10 GMT -5
Honestly I'd prefer for them not to do Kim/Ron at all. For three seasons and one movie Kim and Ron were just really good friends and there was never a thought about romance except that one time when Kim was moodulator-mind controlled (and the non-mind controlled party thought romance was a bad idea.) I liked that. I also think it was important and valuable given how much there is out there saying that boys and girls / men and women can't be "just friends". I'd like to see more of Kim's mom. For James we had episodes the revolved around him, his family, his college friends, his place of business, his coworkers, his coworkers' families, and so forth. For Ann we had her on speaker phone because she needed both hands for surgery. When she is prominently featured it's in Mother's Day and she's not there because of anything related to her but instead because James decided she and Kim should spend the day together. Monique was integrated into the show the way a new character should be: she showed up, made friends with Kim and later Ron, and then stuck around. Compare that to someone like Felix (who appears in two Felix episodes and the final finale) and you can see that Mo wasn't exactly the model they worked off of. Zita, who (in theory at least) never stopped being friends with Kim and Ron, was in two Zita episodes and a non-speaking role in the final finale. So on, so forth. This particularly stands out because, since it was a cartoon, it's not as if they had to do logistics to get the person playing a given character back in order to show the character exists even in episodes that aren't about them. They could have just drawn the characters into some scenes (say sitting at the lunch table with Kim and Ron.) I'd like to have seen more diversity. I grew up in a state that's basically perpetually tied for first as whitest in the US and my high school was more racially diverse than Middleton High. Not just racial diversity though, if we're going to have episodes of straight cis girl crushing on straight cis boy and straight cis boy crushing on straight cis girl then I don't see why non-straight and non-cis kids can't have characters that represent their experiences in the show too. If the show is going to have relationships, which it doesn't need to*, then I think they should have ones that reflect what all high high school kids experience, not just what the high school kids it's politically expedient to care about experience. Granted Ron does kind of come off as not quite gender conforming cis what with his fond memories of being dressed up as a ballerina, his interest in fruit flavored lipstick and nail polish, and the comfort and ease he experienced being in a female body, but since it was always played for laughs . . . yeah. I've always felt like there was a missed opportunity when it came to the difference between Hero and High School student. For Kim and Ron the experiences are sort of identical. Kim is respected and differed to, Ron is ignored and mistreated. I would have liked to see a divide where we had one of them being treated much better in one role than the other, but I'm not sure if that could be done and still really be Kim Possible. Kim is a power fantasy (nothing wrong with that) and the particular power fantasy she is involved being at the top of the food chain in high school as well as heroing. Ron is the perpetual nobody, and a Ron who gets credit and praise wouldn't really be the same person. - * "Kim and Ron try to save the world without flunking high school" is a premise that could have filled the show just fine, with their personal lives remaining personal.
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