With the recent announcement of reboots of shows like "Full House" and the possible reboot of other 90s shows such as "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and the launch of the "Splat!" by Nickelodeon, the smell of nostalgia is in the air. I remember being a little kid sitting in front of my television watching my favorite shows like Rugrats, Hey Arnold and others after coming home from school. Looking back on those times always puts a smile on my face, bringing me back to a simpler and happier time. But I was a child back then and now I'm 20 years old and while it's nice to look back on those simpler times, those times are over and it's time to move on. Now while I am in favor of being able to watch re-runs of my favorite childhood shows, I begin to question, when is it becoming too much nostalgia? When does it stop being nostalgic and more of living in the past? Now the past is great to look back on every now and then but there is a reason it is called the past.

Now nostalgia is not a bad thing when used correctly. Shows like "Fuller House" and "Girl Meets World" will cater to those cries from fans who long for that great feeling the original shows gave them just one more time. Those fans who grew up watching their favorite characters are now adults who may have their own families whom they can share that feeling. Although "Girl Meets World" has been able to find the balance in using a nostalgic feel while also being able to express the same morals and intentions of its predecessor and be able to use them to speak to a new younger audience.

We get to see our favorite characters return while also watching the development of new characters. But with these future possible reboots, I worry that the nostalgic feel of the show will get in the way of any new things they try to introduce. Fans may long for the returns of their favorite characters from the original show and not invest in the new characters created because they weren't in the original show. People long for that feeling they had when they were growing up and watching these shows but the thing is that they will never truly get that same feeling. Some will look at a reboot as better than the original and others will see it as worse than the original.

One thing I also notice is that people compare today's television with that of the 90s. People look down on shows like, "How I Met Your Mother" and claim it to be a cheap ripoff of "Friends," without even having actually watched the show. People are always like "bring back 'Friends', bring back 'Fresh Prince' because today's shows suck." This happens because our view of television today is completely different from what it was back then. Shows like "How I Met Your Mother," are made to appeal to current audiences and be able to be relatable to our viewers of today. Something we may have found funny back in the 90s may not be so funny today.

Times are changing, people are changing and evolving every day and television is doing the same. Audiences like new ideas and new innovations being created because it is something new and something fresh. If the trend of television just stuck to one formula and did not evolve, viewers will get bored and eventually stop watching. Shows like "Breaking Bad," "Mad Men," "Walking Dead," and others have provided new ideas and ways of approaching television that we could not have even imagined in the 90s. Sometimes we even look at what television is doing now and look back at the 90s and realize it might not have been as great as we remember it.

Even looking at the world of pro wrestling, the WWE has been constantly promoting their new network with "the chance to relive your favorite moments, like the Attitude Era" and have recently been nonstop promoting the Attitude Era and even stars from that Era. The Attitude Era, for those not familiar with wrestling, was a time during the mid-90s where pro wrestling was a big part of pop culture. Everyone back then knew who Stone Cold Steve Austin was, who The Rock was, who the nWo was. A big boom period for the industry that drew in millions of viewers each week.

But that was the 90s, it's 2015 and that audience has grown up and wants something new. One prime example of this was this past year at WrestleMania, the match was Sting vs. Triple H and this was a big deal as Sting had been built up as one of the biggest stars to never step foot in a WWE ring and this was to be his first match in WWE ever. One would think to just promote it as his first match and be done with it but they chose to make it all about WWE vs. WCW, the television war that occurred during the 90s and let that be the main focus rather than create a fresh new storyline for the match. The match itself even went as far as to bring out members of D-Generation X and the nWo, all of whom were now in their early to late 50s and way past their prime. Don't get me wrong as a fan it was cool to see it but it was also too noticeable that they had all aged and that this was not the same as it was when I was younger.

Nostalgia itself is defined as a longing for a typical period in the past; keyword is longing. Feeling nostalgic is wanting to go back to that time period but sadly time travel has yet to be developed and so one must understand that they will never truly relive that feeling they once had. It's good to look back but it's not good to stay there. Television needs to evolve and change with the times. Sometimes we look back and realize what we loved back then was not all that great and then look for something new. While I do like to see re-runs of my favorite shows every now and then I also like to see the new shows coming out with new innovations and issues I would not have even thought about before. The 90s were a great time but they were not meant to last forever and it is best to keep those memories while also creating new ones today. I will still take my re-runs of "Rugrats" though.