I am personally against it despite Sam Esmail’s involvement (I really liked Mr. Robot). It’s not that I don’t think it could be a good show, it’s that NBC has plenty of other properties from former science fiction shows they could redevelop, but they’re redeveloping this one instead.
If they want to reboot a show for the third time, why not V considering the first reboot was so disappointing? Or maybe go for the 90s nostalgia and reboot SeaQuest DSV or Earth 2.
And then there’s all the Sci-Fi Channel/SyFy properties they have at least some stake of ownership in.
I realize asking for something original is asking too much these days, but can’t we at least do something other than Battlestar Galactica every 20 years?
I’m willing to be open-minded and give the show a chance if it gets produced, but I don’t think it should be produced in the first place.
I would actually like to see a new V show. I actually liked the last show ( never seen the original). I think NBC did Heroes, maybe they could make a new series in that world or something.
Stop with the lazy rebooting of everything!
Feel better?
lol… yep. You?
I would love to see Sea Quest rebooted!
Okay, deal. But they keep everything from Season 1 and 2 exactly the same, and then take seasons 3 and 4 in a new direction.
Right? Being stuck planet side with a shitty self-preserving President is too close to the future potential of real life, and a reminder of four+ years ago.
Instead of rebooting everything let’s get another few seasons of westworld (like season one of course)
Even Westworld is a reboot. There were two movies in the 70s and a TV series based on those movies in the 80s. Everything is a damn reboot.
The first movie, with Yul Brenner, is friggin awesome. That said, I have read a LOT of great sci-fi series in the last couple of years that are screaming for movie/tv treatment, and are NOT BSG.
The second not so much. Yul Brynner is in it too, but not for very long. Never saw the short-lived TV series.
My dad said he once saw Yul Brynner in the Indianapolis airport in full cowboy getup.
The second, Futureworld, was boring but it did have the earliest computer animation committed to film
If we can reboot some awesome actors from the past, let’s get Woody Strode and Yul Brenner in like a Mass Effect show. On second thought, they would do it with AI, and it would be wrong on so many levels.
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They should stop making reboots and reallity shows. There are so many shows killed after 1 season that should get more. Or maybe extent the bsg universe or something
Yes to more Westworld and a very big NO to any more reboots.
Let’s just hope they leave Lexx and Farscape tf alone.
Farscape was an unofficial reboot of Blake’s 7 (created by Terry Nation, who created the Daleks). That’s never stated outright, but both shows are about a bunch of misfit criminals on the run from a tyrannical galactic government in a living ship. Also, the villain Grayza in Farscape was pretty obviously made to look like Servalan from Blake’s 7.
But I love both Blake’s 7 and Farscape and it’s not an official reboot. It’s more of a new idea that is in tribute to a previous one but does its own thing. A true reboot of Farscape would be god-awful.
They would never have the balls to reboot Lexx.
If you combined the last reboot with Esmail’s mindfuckery, it would be spectacular. IDK why anyone would be against another run.
Giver.
Esmail isn’t the showrunner though, he’s only producing it. So I’m less optimistic than you are.
Everything has happened before, and everything will happen again.
I just want a Babylon 5 reboot! Goddamnit!
Who are you? What do you want?
There is the animated movie coming out.
Already came out months ago, it was terrible.
Ah, sorry to hear. I was never a fan of the show but I was glad for people who were.
Yes!
Isn’t this the second reboot and the third version?
Pardon me, you are correct. I will adjust the title.
Yeah I’m not in favor of it. The old one (reboot) still holds up well.
Hunh. You know, it hadn’t occurred to me that the original reboot was at NBC. Which is interesting, because it originally was an ABC show.
“As of this moment, we are at war”
The miniseries was at the peak of what is achievable in sci-fi IMO. The follow up with “33” just cemented it.
While watching it at the time the later seasons faltered, I rewatched it all just over a year ago and it flows better as a binge despite some of the shortcomings.
All of this is to say I don’t think a reboot is necessary but I’m keeping a hopeful, open mind.
The miniseries was at the peak of what is achievable in sci-fi IMO. The follow up with “33” just cemented it.
That’s exactly why they shouldn’t reboot it. It’s hard to make good TV. Reboots are rarely good, because you don’t just have to beat the average, you have to beat the previous show. The odds of beating that original BSG are essentially nil.
There’s plenty of things they could reboot instead. Do a reboot / spinoff / prequel of Stargate. Re-do Sliders. Buy the rights to Babylon 5 and do a spinoff of that (also, re-release the full quality original, which has been locked up for decades now). Re-make Day of the Triffids, but as a series. The concept there is pretty open-ended so you could go for years.
Or, there’s a whole lot of superhero-comedy stuff that could do well. Less extreme than The Boys, but stuff like Misfits of Science, Greatest American Hero, My Secret Identity, etc.
Or adapt something new, like Ringworld, Hyperion, make an Ender’s Game series.
Don’t try to re-remake one of the most successful remakes ever.
Re-do Sliders.
Yes! Imagine a reboot of Sliders that actually explores all the fascinating possibilities of parallel dimensions. The concept always had so much more promise than the show actually delivered. Also, don’t do the whole Kromag thing this time around.
Yeah, I agree. It wouldn’t have to be a comedy either. You could make it more of a dramatic show instead. The original BSG wasn’t quite a comedy, but it wasn’t as serious as the reboot, which let them explore new ideas.
But, yeah, the possibilities for exploring parallel dimensions are literally endless.
Ringworld on HBO with all the rishathra handshakes you can handle would at least hit a niche, I guess
Reboot of Stargate? Sir, drop your keyboard on the ground and put your hands above your head! Nobody has to get hurt!
The thing with Stargate is that even the TV series (which IMO is more canon than the movie) was effectively a reboot. And, the TV series had so many spin-offs that it would be perfectly fair to have yet another spin-off with a fresh take. I’m not saying they should go back and have someone other than MacGyver play Jack O’Neil. But, they could make a fresh new Stargate Universe (ahem) and start fresh.
Someday we’ll get that planned SGU conclusion. Someday…
I loved SGU.
The main advantage of a fictional world spanning through the entire universe is that there are infinite possible stories, without the need for a reboot.
They could do a story about the rise of the first goauld system lord, and how it managed to rise to power.
They could talk about the descendants of unas, and how they managed to create a globalized technological civilisation, possibly even meeting the great great great grandchildren of the civilisation seeded by the crew of destiny in the time travelling incident, long after the earth has became a barren wasteland…
Or something about a jaffa archeologist on chulak, discovering an ancient burrial ground, but all the corpses has a wierd worm in their stomach. The plot thickens when they detect a substance known as tretonin, a common dietaty supplement, inside the worm, but nobody takes the discovery seriously, making the jaffa with his outlandish hypothesies an outcast…
Or about a shortage of the artificial food supply in a highly spiritual tribe of wraith, hindering their long and complicated way to ascension…
The possibilities are endless, and I’m sure someone with an actual talent could come up with tons of better ideas.
Just finished a rewatch. Definitely not as good as I remember it.
That poor left Viper always landing crazy!
Fair enough. Did you watch it as it was airing originally?
I ask because I felt the writers strike really hampered it at the time. Just felt like it lost a lot of momentum that I thought it retained on a rewatch.
I did. I memed the so say we all and everything on deadeddit. It definitely was the latter seasons that I don’t think held up as well. Seemed like it meandered.
Ah it definitely did meander. Totally agree there. I just felt it was less meander-y on a rewatch. I watched all the web series in with the rewatch and they helped too I thought.
The zeitgiest would love the 12/13 tribes storylines. Absolutely no way they get convoluted with contemporary middle eastern issues. Nope. Not at all.
Of course, the original 1970s one was Mormon propaganda.
A Mormon blogger explains it quite well- https://www.millennialstar.org/battlestar-galactica-and-mormonism/
So Mitt Romney is leaving the Semate to take over the Lorne Green role?
Must see TV indeed, Jedediah
Well, last time, when they were doing terrorist attacks against the cylons, it was reflecting the middle east at that time. Except the good guys were the terrorists. I thought it was quite brave as there was still a gung ho spirit about the invasion.
I agreed that it will be topical again. Maybe they won’t be as brave. Or maybe they’ll be braver.
Earth 2 had so much potential too! It doesn’t have a cult following, so would be a good candidate to reboot. seaQuest was just weird/goofy (I liked it despite the campiness), but if done right, could work
3rd time… Everyone forgets Galactica 1980.
That was a sequel, not a reboot. And it wasn’t even really a sequel. It was a next season that they slashed the budget massively for, recast and retitled. Also, it’s best forgotten.
That was the classic “Oh Fuck! No Budget! Time travel to LA!” move. See also, Picard, season two, though I wonder if that was more to do with the cast not wanting to deal with sci-fi shit.
