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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8663660" data-attributes="member: 19857">I really need to start that &quot;Guess the least likely franchise to get resurrected this year&quot; betting pool that I keep joking with my friends about.&nbsp; We all would have lost this one I suspect.&nbsp; I haven't thought about Tom Swift in almost 40 years (and even when I read the books as a kid they were extremely dated and I only read them because the town &quot;library&quot; such as it was hadn't had the funding to buy any new books since 1975).The TV show is a spin-off of Nancy Drew because they added him as a tech billionaire character in the second season.&nbsp; I haven't watched the second season, but you can expect any CW adaptation to have only the barest resemblance to the original novels.&nbsp; The Nancy Drew tv show is to her novels as the Riverdale TV show is to Archie comics - melodrama is turned up to 11 and character flaws are turned up to 20.&nbsp; Fun to watch if you're into over-the-top TV IMO (though I still haven't watched any of the second season, so I guess it wasn't that much fun...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8663660, member: 19857"] I really need to start that "Guess the least likely franchise to get resurrected this year" betting pool that I keep joking with my friends about. We all would have lost this one I suspect. I haven't thought about Tom Swift in almost 40 years (and even when I read the books as a kid they were extremely dated and I only read them because the town "library" such as it was hadn't had the funding to buy any new books since 1975). The TV show is a spin-off of Nancy Drew because they added him as a tech billionaire character in the second season. I haven't watched the second season, but you can expect any CW adaptation to have only the barest resemblance to the original novels. The Nancy Drew tv show is to her novels as the Riverdale TV show is to Archie comics - melodrama is turned up to 11 and character flaws are turned up to 20. Fun to watch if you're into over-the-top TV IMO (though I still haven't watched any of the second season, so I guess it wasn't that much fun...) [/QUOTE]

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