Posted on 02/20/2020 1:14:26 PM PST by Red Badger
Fans of the beloved old CBS show Walker, Texas Ranger will be sorely disappointed to hear it will be getting the CW treatment in its reboot. In addition to Walker getting a new female partner, media reported on Wednesday that he will have a “gay, conservative younger brother.”
The new series will be titled simply Walker and star Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) who will also executive produce. The original, which starred Chuck Norris as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker and aired eight seasons from 1993-2001, was a wholesome, moral show about good vs. evil and roundhouse kicks. With the show, movie actor and world champion martial artist Norris gained a cult following that went beyond the series and spurred comedic and fantastical “Chuck Norris facts,” like “Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone” or “Death once had a near-Chuck-Norris experience.”
According to Variety, Keegan Allen was brought on to play Walker's brother Liam in the revival:
Described as smart, slightly smug, but with a strong moral compass, Liam is Walker’s younger gay and conservative brother who has been recently promoted to assistant DA. Liam and Walker are close, but Liam gives his brother no shortage of tough love. Liam has always stayed close to home, often sacrificing his personal life in favor of his family duties. In Walker’s absence, he stepped up to take Walker’s kids under his wing. Liam’s close relationship with Walker’s son and daughter makes Walker slightly jealous.
Knowing the CW, now that Walker is back, Liam will have plenty of opportunity to explore his gay personal life for audiences to watch. It will also be very interesting to see how the CW interprets the conservative side of his character – or if they even know what a conservative is! Something tells me the gay representation is more important to them than getting the far less frequent conservative representation right.
In the description of Walker it says he will "find unexpected common ground with his new partner." No doubt there will be lots of misogyny for “one of the first women in Texas Rangers’ history” to fight and lessons for Walker along the way. No word yet on if there will be a trans or non-binary character, but you can be sure something like will be a nice little Easter egg in there, too.
Woke Walker, Texas Ranger: coming soon to a TV near you.
The attraction to the original was the horrendous acting.
Why don’t they remake the Streets of San Francisco?...................too shitty.............
I still refuse to use the word “gay” except in its light-hearted and happy meaning. I’m sick of faggot and lesbian bullies like Billie Jean King ganging up on nice folks like Margaret Court. Are you jealous of her superior record Billie Jean?
Not in the Hollywood stereotypes I’ve seen, which was my point.
Homosexuality is inherently not conservative.
Who’s his/her/zhe’s “girlfriend” going to be? I’m sure zhe/sher/zhim can’t match Alex Cahill.
Sounds like Magnum PI and all the other reboots.
Strip away anything that people liked about the old show and replace with ick!
Sorry, lib that’s an 0bong0 affiliated hate whitey pair
“I’ll take reboots dead on arrival for $500, Alex”
You must not like Trebek. In the Walker Texas Ranger Show Alex was kidnapped or death threated almost every week.
rwood
“It’s not possible for a gay man to have a strong moral compass....’
It is possible. But the first moral action should be to tell everyone to stay out of his bedroom. It shouldn’t matter what they do in there as that is his business just like a heterosexual man. The problem is not that it seems to have to be a homosexual man, it should just be a man. Nothing to prove, nothing to justify. What he does in private has nothing to do with being a Texas Ranger.
rwood
Every libertarian I know says the same thing.
Values? are you kidding? queers and values in the same sentence is an oxymoron.
What utter hell that will be!
I rarely watched the original, thus will definitely NOT watch this woke, bastardized version.
The continued march to destroy TV as we knew ti.
Another propaganda program.
It is, but I don’t get it from Netflix. ;) Get VPN and a torrent.
I can't speak for everyone of course but I think most straight people are simply fed up with all this woke garbage on TV. I know I am. I have never really cared one way or the other what alternative lifestyles people have as long as they don't include me without consent or force it on us in general but Hollyweird is doing just that.
The percentage of gays in Hollyweird is very high compared to the normal population same with SanFran. The problem is they are forcing their alternative (some would say deviant) lifestyle on all of us right in our homes through the TV as part of a brainwashing/indoctrination technique. They aren't fooling anyone with more than two brain cells. That's what disgusts me; not your brother or any other non pushy gay person.
The Gay Mafia doesn't just want acceptance; they want special consideration and to be put on a pedestal or something. That's just plain wrong. Their lifestyle is an option they have chosen. It's not like being born deformed or autistic or a number of other disabilities. They don't deserve special privileges yet they think they do because they want to make sure everyone knows they live a chosen alternative lifestyle that isn't the regular straight type. If they deserve any special consideration; it's for being mentally impaired in some way. Not all of course but many gays; maybe even most.
It's not about being anti-gay; it's about being anti-woke and the woke drones pushing their values on the rest of us.
A reboot of Walker rather than making a different police procedural with a Texas Ranger as the main character is deliberately to ruin Walker, Texas Ranger in people's minds. The left isn't simply ruining everything they touch as a consequence of their actions. Rather, they're ruining everything they touch as the principal design of their actions because undermining all of society's values and institutions leads people to favor them. Or so they believe.
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