It's amazing to me that a major corporation can purchase the rights to a very popular character you've known all your life, and then when they create something "for a modern audience," you fail to recognize the character at all.

Yet, people turned on "Clarkson's Farm," never having met any of the ancillary characters, and yet you feel like you've known them all your life. You relate to them in a big way, and you realize that even if the show didn't have half the budget it did, you'd probably still watch it because you actually feel something for these people.

A billion dollars doesn't buy relatability. Nobody wants safe and sterile.