I was thinking if this can be done?
They went in order from "Eunice" didn't they? Whatever age Mama was in 1982 when the show came out, that's how old she was then, now it's 2017...how old would she be now?
Had this been done in early 2000, like a reunion series or something, maybe. It's almost 2020. Tiffany Thelma would be out of college. She was born in 1990 so she'd be 27 now.
A re-boot where Vicky plays Mama is okay, but a whole new cast playing everyone else? Nah! I don't think it would work. It would have to be set in today's times and Mama would have been born in the 1930s or 1940s. The original Mama was born in the 1920s and her kids seem have been born in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
The new Mama would have to have been born in the 1930s/1940s (as the old Mama would be dead...it would have to mess with legacy of course)and the new Vint/Naoimi/Mama's kids,et. would have been born in the early 1960s. Bubba and the grandkids would have been born in 2000s .It would have to change years for sure with who was born when.
A re-boot where we see Mama TODAY since the original ended, yes. But how old would Mama be? What year was Thelma born? It seems to me she was sassy and in her 60s throughout the 1980s and as the show ended. So I'd say in the 1990s she was 70s and 2000s she was 80s and now in the 2010s she'd be in her 90s or well close to or over 100 now. Right?
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