Author Deary had had a negative experience with the 2001 animated series, and so was hesitant to try again; he eventually agreed to the new project on the condition that the new series be explicitly "horrible, funny and true".
Author Deary had had a negative experience with the 2001 animated series--which had only loosely incorporated his material into the modern characters' time-traveling adventures--and so was hesitant to try again. He eventually agreed to the new project on the condition that the new series be explicitly "horrible, funny and true".