Thread by @ElieNYC

Just saw the Fresh Prince reboot trailer and I'm sad that they seem to be making Carlton a bro-y dick instead of an earnest dork.
BUT... as I've lived long enough to see "nerd culture" metastasize into dudes complaining about Mary Sues in Star Wars, it's probably a good call.

Like, definitely one of my sadnesses is the realization that people who *rejected* "jock culture" for more cerebral pursuits were actually just the same toxic dudebros who were just bad at sports or being fast.

So, it makes sense now that they show Carlton as both being good at chess and Lacrosse AND being an unwelcoming dick who is popular. And he'll probably have a white girlfriend that he isn't actually very nice to either.
Because that guy is all the same guy now.

But, you know, I loved how the old show built the "sibling rivalry" between those two. I loved when Will would try to help Carlton look fly. I loved the Boyz in the Hood episode where Carlton buys a gun to go *avenge* Will after he gets shot.
This show probably won't have that.

And, not for nothing, I loved how Will Smith would have to play straight man to the comedic stylings of Alfonso Ribeiro. Ribeiro is hilarious, and Smith is an underutilized straight man. He's *great* at it. In Bad Boys. In bits of ID4.