Parenting & Family Quote by Mark Goddard

Nostalgia is a bully, and Mark Goddard is trying to get adults to stop letting it run the show. His plea is less about movie etiquette than about generational ownership: the story you loved at 10 does not belong to the 40-year-old you who now wants it to validate your past. When he says "Don't be critical", he is not arguing against standards so much as against a particular kind of criticism that treats reboot culture like a personal affront. The subtext is weary and practical, the voice of someone who has watched fandom turn into consumer litigation.

The line about not expecting "the same feelings" is the emotional core. Goddard names the quiet truth that studios rarely say out loud: what audiences miss is not just a show, but the conditions of watching it - childhood, fewer distractions, a sense of discovery. No film can reproduce that, and demanding it sets the new work up to fail before the lights go down. His advice to "let your kids see it" shifts the frame from product evaluation to cultural handoff. It positions the reboot not as a replacement for a sacred text but as a new entry point, a different doorway into the same fictional neighborhood.

Coming from an actor associated with an earlier era of television, the comment reads as both self-preservation and generosity: he is defending the possibility of adaptation while acknowledging that memory is not a fair critic.