I was inspired to create this post thanks to Bailamos, regarding a comment I saw on the Walnut Whips post. Bailamos said that she'd rather have a life with rather than without Walnut Whips even if they're not how she remembered them to be. I agree with her completely. The Wanut Whips we have today are nothing like the ones we grew up with but they're still tasty and I still wouldn't say no to one! But then that's how it is with a lot of the surviving chocolate bars - they're not the same as they once were.
But it's not just food or drink but anything from the past that ended long ago. People wish for it to come back but then when it's here, there are cries of 'It's just not like how it used to be.'
Take Neighbours for example. Everyone moaned about it for years saying it had gone downhill and it wasn't like how it was in the eighties and nineties. Then it gets axed and everyone's up in arms about it and trying to find ways to save it. Then by some miracle, Neighbours returns - and there are some who are still not happy saying that writers should have done this or that and brought back so and so!
So I suppose what I'm asking is is it a good thing to bring back things from the past even if they're not a 100% as we remembered them. Is it better to have it even if it's different or not have it at all?
This is a tough one to answer! Well first of all, I think it depends on what 'it' is. For me personally there are some things I can live without if it's not going to be as good as it were. I think the key here is that even if it's going to be different, make it different but in a good way. And I don't feel a lot of these changes are. Does anyone remember that game show Mr. and Mrs.? They brought it back in the nineties with Julian Clarey and I were dead excited. But I saw the first episode and I were so disappointed. It were terrible!