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Hahahah, that's great.
Oh, I posted, commence Superman and Batman talk.
Interesting all that Superman stuff. Generally, I'm not sure if new incarnations are the same as a reboot. Since reboot is a new term, I'm not sure if we're all talking about the same thing, or where the line is exactly between a simple new incarnation and an attempt to refresh an ailing series.
One such definition, that works for Bond as well as Star Trek, is if the new start comes while the series is essentially still ongoing.
It's questionable if that works for Batman. It was a number of years between the Burton-fueled series and the new Nolans, but I'd argue the Burtons were still fresh in the pop-cultural zeitgeist.
In that sense, though, the Chris Reeve Superman series would not have been a reboot, and I'm agreeable to that. And, by the same token, I think that series was dead so long before Lois and Clark or Smallville that neither were reboots in the sense I'm using that term. The same would have to be true of the Singer attempt (certainly less of a reboot than a remake at any rate).
I certainly cop to the fuzziness. People certainly remembered the Chris Reeve Supermans, but I don't think they were as "fresh" in the pop culture as the Burton Batmans were when Nolan more legitimately tried to revive that franchise.
This is ridiculous minutia ... but oh well, it's a message board.
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