What do you when your movie franchise looks to have run its natural course?  Do you artificially extend the series with another sequel and risk ruining the rep of the preceding films?  Do you cobble together a  second-rate prequel and hope the fans will swallow it?  Or do you simply acknowledge that you’re not going to squeeze any more juice out of that lemon and retire the franchise once and for all?

Lately, however, we’ve seen that there’s another option on the table: the reboot.  When you don’t want to tarnish the legacy of a strong effort but still feel you can do something new with the idea, you hit the reset switch and start over.  See where I’m going with this?

Dave has done a top-notch job during his time at TBAU, and he’s stamped his style on the site so definitely that there’s no way a new crew could simply step in and carry on as if nothing had happened.  It would be the blog equivalent of same character, different actor, and we don’t want to be the new Aunt Viv.

So we’re rebooting.  TBAU will retain the same focus and feel, but with a new cast and director, a new voice and, somewhere down the line, a new look.

I suppose it’s only polite to introduce myself at this point.  I’m C.Y., and I’ll be overseeing affairs at TBAU from now on.  I’m a foreigner of no fixed address with various vague connections to the movie industry, and I can enjoy anything from a frou-frou foreign flick to your standard guns-and-boobs blockbuster.  I’m a big fan of fried foods and creative cursing, and both will feature more heavily hereafter than you’d think was possible.

We (yes, there will be other bloggers on board) will be using the weekend to regroup, so check back on Monday for our premiere.  As the new kids in school, we’re expecting the usual barrage of e-wedgies, digital wet willies and countless other creative forms of cyber bullying.  If you’d like to get in an early blow (or, conversely, wish us luck), drop a comment at the bottom of this article or shout us out at twitter.com/thebadandugly.