THIS SHOW IS AN ABOMINATION!!!

Wrong. It's great...

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Okay, I’ll try to argue your points as best I can, considering they’re mostly subjective and matters of opinion.

First off, in the last post you said they ruined Lola’s character. Um, what character? A sex kitten who doesn’t like being called “doll”? That’s not a character, that’s Jessica Rabbit minus everything that makes Jessica Rabbit interesting. Lola now has a personality, interests, jokes . . . she’s actually a three-dimensional person rather than an object to be lusted after. Even if you don’t like that new personality, I don’t understand how you can think this is anything but an improvement over what she was: a token chick with nothing interesting to contribute.

Daffy and Bugs look nothing like Daffy and Bugs should, they remind me of 5 year olds trying to draw Daffy and Bugs.

The art’s been modernized. Because it was 2011, not the 1940s. Whether or not you like it, they look different because different artists and animation styles were used. Space Jam looked nothing like the older characters, either. Such is the evolution of art.

The jokes are horrible, nothing funny about them.

That is entirely subjective. I think the jokes are hit-or-miss, but when they’re funny they land very well. Daffy screaming “SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON’T LET ME READ YOUR MAIL?!", Bugs’ entire feud with Cecil Turtle (more on that later), those two gophers . . . I thought it was all hilarious, and even when it wasn’t funny I found something comforting about it. It’s a gentler, less mean-spirited style of comedy than the originals, but I found the spirit of the characters was there despite some updates. Bugs is still the smart-aleck but now with some weaknesses to make him easier to root for, Daffy is still selfish and greedy, Porky is still kinda a doormat.

It’s those characters, tailored to a new environment . . . which is what good adaptations should do. If Daffy lived in a house with someone else, he would never pay rent and always leech off his friends; he would jump into job after job, seeking money-making schemes that usually fail; and he certainly would drive a giant parade float of himself without bothering to get a license. It all fits into that egotistical, not-very-bright persona we loved about the classic, and to me it worked phenomenally. I loved him and I liked Bugs a lot more because he wasn’t such an *beep* — because you can root for a total, unapologetic jerk for 7 minutes, but not for 20. Which leads me to . . .

The characters work best in 7 minute shorts for a reason, it was all about the joke and they could concentrate their efforts into being funny.

Each episode is centered around a basic joke or theme, so I don’t see the problem with stretching it out. That’s what’s happened in the history of television and film: early films were between 20 seconds and ten minutes at a time, and have been continually getting longer as technology makes it possible. Were it possible for classic Looney Tunes to be this length, they probably would’ve been. Once again, this is the concept updated to modern technologies and situations; same characters, different environments. Because of the extra time, this is more focused on story and characters than gags. I personally prefer that kind of story, but you don’t have to. But that doesn’t mean that one is better or worse than the other.

Their motivations as characters shock me. Bugs and Daffy as best friends? Are you kidding me?! Daffy was and always is jealous of Bugs for taking his spotlight, that's a major part of the character that's not here.

How many episodes have you seen? Daffy is jealous of Bugs, insanely jealous. It’s part of why he wants to be best friends with Bugs despite never taking the time to learn anything about him (“Best Friends”), because then he can get a bit of that spotlight — and Bugs is the only one who’ll put up with him. In “Casa de Calma,” Bugs earns an actress’s attention while Daffy tries and fails; the amount people bid on Bugs vs. Daffy in “Eligible Bachelors” shows that the latter is still losing to the former and he’s not happy about it; he tries to copy Bugs’ success and fame in “Peel of Fortune”; “To Bowl or Not to Bowl” is literally ENTIRELY about how Daffy is jealous of Bugs! Etc., etc., etc.

They were friends in both Space Jam and Back in Action, so I hope you’re prepared to hate those as well. (And that Baby Looney Tunes thing, too. Not to mention Tiny Toon Adventures, in which they’re in the oh-so-boring-not-at-all-loony atmosphere of a school and have to interact with one another without violence!) I think there’s enough evidence in-universe to support them as friends — they go on a vacation together in “Ali Baba Bunny" and in some other classic episodes spend time together — so it didn’t seem out of the blue to me in the slightest. It’s a rivalry as well as a friendship, but the one doesn’t negate the other.

No, they’re not beating the crap out of each other (not that it hurt either of them anyway), but that’s not the purpose of the show. The purpose of Looney Tunes was and is always to be funny, and the creators are just experimenting with different situations and ways to do that. If that doesn’t work for you in terms of humor, fine, but you should be able to accept that it works for some people, and to some this DOES capture the spirit of the classics even while updating it. It’s not an insult just because you don’t like it, because I see a whole lot of affection for these characters from the new show’s writers. This feels like a tribute and a continuation, a labor of love more than a cash-grab. At least far less of a cash-grab than anything else Tooney that’s come out in the last 20 years.

The rest of your comments are all opinion, but there’s one important thing I thought was worth commenting on:

Here they tried to create a sitcom with characters that do not belong in a sitcom.

Okay, to YOU they don’t belong in a sitcom. Fine. But this show is not a cut-and-dried sitcom . . . like it or not, there is a lot more slapstick and unrealistic hijinks in this show than there would ever be in any sitcom. That Cecil vs. Bugs thing was full of cartoon violence, and there are constantly little moments of them getting injured that recalls the old series . . . and the DMV episode is exactly what you’d expect if you took these characters and threw them into a DMV. The violence is not as grand as it was, and again that’s because of the change in environment.

I’ve gone on enough about all this, but you wanted a well-reasoned defense of the show, so that’s the best I can offer. Hopefully you can understand why some people would like it, even if you don’t.

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