I never thought Get Smart was subversive so I'm a bit freaked that the makers of the Get Smart film remake do.
In the TV series, Agent 86 was an incompetent though highly regarded top operative constantly being made to look good (after a period of looking bad) by outrageous fortune and 99. In the film (according to the trailer, I don't think I could face the film itself), Agent 86 is a depressed junior desk spook, disliked and ridiculed by his masters, who is, of necessity, thrown into field work as a clean skin when Kaos discovers the identities of every Control field agent.
Can it be that the premise for an American TV show filmed at the height of Cold War paranoia is too subversive for America now? Or is it that the secret services have, after Iraq and Afghanistan, been shown to be so incompetent, that they feel the original premise would amount to letting out trade secrets?
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