I don't doubt that Mr. W has a full vision for what he wants to do, and I trust him, but I do often wonder how exactly one might execute GKND fully. I think, in a way, GKND kinda breaks regular KND? Kids Next Door is one of those series where it's so heavily reliant on pop culture (specifically American Pop culture) that when you step away from Earth as a setting it becomes difficult to remain true to a lot of design principles.
For instance, just trying to design any GKND technology, it's hard to really keep the 2x4 aesthetic, because how do you make something read as "made out of junkyard parts, but alien" without being able to recognize those individual parts? Like an alien KND spaceship wouldn't be made out of things from earth, and while there's definitely some things we strongly associate with sci-fi or aliens in the pop cultural landscape, after a certain amount of abstraction there's not much separating those things from just Any Fictional Spaceship. You can only use flying saucers so much, and when you smoosh enough ray guns, dilithium crystals, and sonic screwdrivers together, can you really recognize them as distinct objects anymore, especially if you have no built-in cultural context for those things? Do you just start restricting your pop cultural homages and parodies to only science fiction?
Then there's the question of coming up with new problems for alien children to have, which, while a fun question, also begs how those would relate to our earthly concepts of common problems children face--most of KND's episode plots are just typical childhood dilemmas taken to their logical extreme. Knightbrace is funny because children are scared of the dentist and we inherently recognize and relate to that. Count Spankulot is funny because children hate getting spanked and we relate to that. We're shown that R-Rated movies are just secret adult meetings so no kids are allowed in, and we laugh.
How does one translate that to alien children? Do they have hive-mothers that give off mind control pheromones that make them do space-math homework? Is there a galactic adult conspiracy that refuses to let any child under the age of 102 alpha-centauri years pilot a spaceship?
I'm not saying these problems can't be overcome, obviously! These are questions that could have genuinely interesting answers, but it's definitely something that has no built-in safety net of having been seen in the show already, save for the briefest of offhand comments in INTERVIEWS or the general setup of the pilot. There's no lore-scaffold for any of this, and it's something that you'd have to put a lot of elbow grease into making interesting and fun, and you'll either nail it or fail it, because it's so far removed from anything we see in the series that that material MUST stand on it's own, or it becomes dull. And even if you do make it interesting, there's still the risk that it won't feel anything like the original show, or even distinct from other science fiction.
It's even possibly the reason why GKND has never been greenlit, despite many other shows of it's era getting picked up once more-- it's simply too new and different compared to what one might consider safe ground to re-tread. Even the most well thought out GKND-AUs I've seen tend to not stray far from earth and I think this is the main reason why; all the juicy world building is confined there, right down to the foundational tenants of how the show works.
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