Yeah, I'm hoping they aren't going overboard with jumpscares, the original wasn't like that.
Ditto. In fact, a majority of the episodes injected quite a bit of lightheartedness and humor...at least, until things really get spooky. I can't wait for this, hope it's good. My 10 year old has seen all the original episodes so we are both hyped. I have confidence, they wouldn't dare screw this up...would they?
Oh, and I really hope they bring some dark stories too. Tale of the Pinball Wizard comes to mind but there are just so many. Zebo the Clown legitimately scared me as a kid (same with Zeke the plumber from Salute Your Shorts, fuck that nightmare fuel). The Tale of Dark Music gave me horrible dreams (that tall-ass creepy doll person thing within the dark basement room) because it basically involved a bullied kid with a monster in his basement who asked the kid to lure others into the basement so it can eat them...and in exchange, the entity conjured up gifts/rewards. The monster only becomes active when music is played. Bully who destroyed the kid's bike gets consumed in the basement while insanely loud heavy metal blasts from some speakers. The episode ends with the implication that the main character is about to feed his "annoying" little sister to the entity in the basement. Jesus Christ.
So many classic staples too like Dr. Vink ("With a va-va-va!"), Sardo the owner of the magic shop ("That's Sar-DOH!
No mister,
accent on the do!"), not to mention the fact that a ton of Canadian actors/actresses were featured on the show prior to a lot of them making it big in Hollywood (Ryan Gosling comes to mind). Episodes like The Tale of the Renegade Virus would be even more relevant to today's culture where VR is actually a thing that far more people have experienced than at the time the original episode released. I mean, fuck...the concept of a hell-bent computer virus in a VR game somehow making its way into the real world (after temporarily trapping you in a VR world which is indistinguishable from real life, no less) is just...terrifying. It was basically A Nightmare on Elm Street with VR rather than dreams lol.