@northern haste
 
Most reboots aren’t at all like the originals and I’ve never seen that complaint.
 
@Beau Skunky
 
Oh, Tirek is definitely the best FiM villain because he feels the most like a villain that isn’t taking elements from others… but as a G1 fan I know that isn’t the case, and it would’ve been more faithful to have Erebus himself rather than Erebus with a greatly modified Tirac body. They clearly didn’t bother to do much research, they didn’t even get the character’s name right. Because Tirac’s name wasn’t in the credits of the original special, they used the misspelling fans made up over the years, “Tirek”. Even I decide to ignore all of that, Tirek stands out on his own quite well, far better than the Maleficent, Q, Ursula, Sauron and other pastiches in G4.
 
Also, regarding G1 Faust once said:
 

 
…Which has naturally irked those who know this isn’t true, because it’s not, even for the standards of other “girl shows” at the time, like Strawberry Shortcake. G1 treated its target audience with respect, that was the intent as seen in the cartoon bible, and by the sheer fact that they got some of the best cartoon writers at the time (who did what they could with what they were given, because Hasbro has never exactly been the best company to work under).
 
I mean FiM has the makings of a good reboot, it tries to combine elements from all past generations. Transformers Animated, practically a reimagining of G1, did this and for the most part greatly succeeded. Also, DC has reboots, Marvel has yet to reboot things but they have retconned a lot of bad stuff. Off the top of my head, the worst instance of this was when they erased Peter Parker and Mary Jane’s marriage and their relationship throughout the 90s. Marvel has been sucking for as long as I can remember, since AT MINIMUM the early 2000s, which only a handful of gems coming out of that era, but all those retcons have plagued their comics (Archie’s Sonic series is the same, especially thanks to Ken Penders). If you’re talking about Marvel and DC’s adaptations, they tend to merge stuff from the comics and past adaptations, or change the tone depending on what they’re doing, since comics have been all over the place, from silly to serious, etc. Those are fine most of the time, they’ll have their issues now and again but that’s another thing, when they divert from the source material too much and tell the audience “this is how it really was except that’s not how it is in the comics”, then it gets annoying.
 
I’m all for reboots if they can improve upon what was already great, but as the saying goes: “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”, and most of the time reboots fail miserably. Only a few I’ve seen (2009’s Friday the 13th, 2005’s King Kong, Jackie Chan’s Karate Kid, to name a few) do the original justice.

@Beau Skunky  
In fact isn’t one of them for my complaints about reboots is that they are too much like the original?

@DarkCarioca  
I still think G4 Tirek was a good villain too, and he puts up an impressive fight. Sure he’s not ‘80s “edgy/dark,” but still entertaining, and menacing.
 
Rebooting old characters, and giving them new personalities/designs/backstories/roles isn’t unusual, the new Duck Tales, TMNT, the Archie Sonic comics, Marvel, DC, and such do it all the time. If they were exactly like the old versions, they probably wouldn’t fit in the new canon’s style, or wouldn’t of aged well. And let’s not forget the G4 Mane 6 & Spike are loosely based on old previous gen characters too, and I’d say they show Faust’s love of G1 well, so it’s kinda unfair to accuse the show of “disrespecting G1.”

Given that they took away Tirac’s menace and motivation and turned him into Erebus, plus nullified the threat the Smooze once posed and made him Discord’s pet… I wouldn’t call that a good job lol (though at least the FiM comics didn’t throw G1 or G3 under the bus)
 
Hopefully a little more respect towards past gens is shown in G5 and generations to come, in the vein of other Hasbro properties (outside of Bayformers, you don’t see other pieces of Transformers history disrespecting or making fun of the franchise’s legacy).

@Frustration in Excelsis  
Same, G4 seemed to of done a good job with new version of classic villains, Groger drama aside.  
So frankly I wouldn’t mind seeing more for the next gen’.
 
Maybe they could bring the witches back, if humans are in G5.

@Beau Skunky  
I definitely wouldn’t mind seeing him in G5. Or in the G4 comics, if those are still a thing that’s happening.

Bowser Octopus!
 
They need to reboot him.