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.
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.
They should do Galactica vs Ender’s Game.
Buck Rogers would be a cool one to reboot; plus it already has the " we’re going to trash the world " backstory.
I don’t think that’s NBC though. NBC does own Flash Gordon I think. Or at least they keep trying to make Flash Gordon happen.
Surely it is Buck Rogers turn
NBC doesn’t own it and there’s apparently a whole rights issue thing going on-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers#Future_films_and_conflict
I’m looking forward to it. Yes, it’s dumb they are going for the third reboot but at least it kind of fits the existing story for it to all happen again. An Earth2 reboot would be awesome and I would be a lot more happy with that. New IP would be even better, but also probably have a higher chance of not being good or finding an audience. I just hope the new show makes it for a full run even if it’s not great. I’m so sick of shows that die after the first season or two.
I want to know why Earth 2 went down the memory hole. Was I just looking at it through rose-tinted glasses and it was actually awful or something? I thought the worldbuilding alone made it a good watch.
It wasn’t awful, it was just hapless. It probably would have gotten its sea legs in a second season.
Sad story: the actress who played the little girl died a day after her honeymoon and 8 days before her 22nd birthday, from a heart attack. (She’d had a heart transplant when she was 15.)
That’s so sad. She was great on the show, even holding her own alongside the legendary Tim Curry.
If they’re gonna reboot Earth 2 they also should reboot Space: Above & Beyond
Space: Above & Beyond
I was enjoying the hell out of that show until they ran out of money and decided that since they were “Marines” they didn’t have to fly their ships anymore.
I actually rewatched it a few years ago and it wasn’t awful.
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.
Instead of rebooting everything let’s get another few seasons of westworld (like season one of course)
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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.
The second, Futureworld, was boring but it did have the earliest computer animation committed to film
Why not make it a continuation instead
I’m not sure how you could continue from the either the original or the reboot’s storyline, but years ago I worked very hard (and ultimately failed) to get NBCU to agree to a pre-podcast era (i.e. sold on CD) radio drama about a different ship in the reboot BSG fleet and it’s adventures while the main show went on, and you would feature all the fleetwide broadcasts from the show at the right times to fit everything chronologically and I still think that would be an amazing idea. Oh well.
Yeah I agree with you. A second reboot of BSG is just unnecessary. The first reboot was almost perfect (except for some of the subplot conclusions, which they botched).
And yes, there are so many other good intellectual properties out there. But not just ones they already own, but many other ones where a screen adaptation hasn’t yet been attempted. For example Gateway, and Hyperion. Both of those were planned by someone but they’ve never materialized. And there’s also William Gibson’s entire Sprawl series, which would be very cool to see on a screen.
And there’s also William Gibson’s entire Sprawl series, which would be very cool to see on a screen.
I love the Sprawl books, and Neuromancer has been in development hell a few times IIRC, but I’m hesitant.
Reading Gibson’s words, they’re so evocative, but a lot is left unspecified and the reader kinda fills in the blanks based on the feeling he is conveying. A show pins everything down visually and I’m afraid even Neuromancer would get rendered as generic cyberpunk without Gibson’s unique style.
OTOH that’s an opportunity for someone to show us something fresh but still true to be books. Not that I really think that will happen, but it’s at least a possibility.
Oh I agree with you, I’m just saying if they must reboot an NBC property, there are other science fiction properties they own that they could go with instead.
And that doesn’t even go into all the Universal science fiction movies. If they must make a TV show based on their properties, let’s see what a good showrunner could do with The Thing or They Live or The Last Starfighter.
I didn’t know how much I needed a Last Starfighter show until right now…
I don’t think they should reboot a show or remake a movie that was initially successful and still holds up. Ironically it seems like that’s the criteria for rebooting a show or remaking a movie.
Well yeah, because, you know, money. A whole different logic. 🙄
I hope they go back to the original source material and come up with something that actually makes sense this time. Maybe take a few details from the newer version that “worked”, but otherwise discard it and try again from scratch. Do something new with it.
And if you’re going to put “they have a plan” in the tagline for a series, actually have a frickin’ plan in mind.
BSG and Lost were both going on around the same time and they both had a lot of intriguing puzzles and twists that never ended up actually paying off.
But hey, good to know that Asimo was the beginning of the robot revolution and the new Cylon 2.0 (or… 3.0?) uprising.
“Mystery box” storytelling is the name for it and, yeah, Lost, especially, is the poster child for not executing on it particularly well. It can be exciting, and it does a good job of making following a story feel like a communal experience that everyone can participate in - speculating on where things will go next, for instance - but it also often feels like shows using it end up over-promising and under-delivering (and often leaves viewers feeling a little soured at the end).
I feel like Dark was a good example of it being well-executed, and proves it certainly can be done well. But yeah, BSG definitely didn’t end up paying off for me either.
The big problem with “Lost” is that many in the writer’s room (and the showrunners themselves) were raging racist assholes who decided to steer the show toward all the white characters, which meant changing a lot of their early plans.
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You know what the ultimate payoff for Lost would have been for me? If at the very end of the show, you just panned across the island and you see the dad from the beginning that they dropped from the show for daring to be black and he yells, “WALT!” It would have made as much sense as everything else and at least it would have been funny.
Everything has happened before, and everything will happen again.
The last reboot was so well casted, acted, scored, written, and is even more culturally relevant now then when it came out.
It’s a hell of a pipe dream to imagine making something better at this point.
If Sam Esmail was showrunner, I’d think he might do something interesting with it, but since he’s only producing, I’m guessing not. But even if it does end up being good, it should still never have been greenlit in the first place in my opinion. It might be good despite that. I’ll keep an open mind and watch the pilot because I will give practically anything taking place in space a chance, but I wish something else was given a shot instead and I’m not hopeful.
I’m sure I’ll check it out and something else should have been given a chance, on board with both of those myself
It won’t be hard beat the last season or two.
As an example, you see a lot of high-budget TV and movie productions scored by Bear McCreary nowadays. The dude made his chops with BSG, and has done a ton of work since.
Black Sails was glorious
His BSG music was terrific, but the McCreary music I find myself always going back to for comfort is his Eureka music. It’s just so cheery in a happy synth way. It’s like if Devo wrote Disney music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKf916cAcgc
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.
