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.
Stop with the lazy rebooting of everything!
Feel better?
lol… yep. You?
“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.
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.
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.
Someday we’ll get that planned SGU conclusion. Someday…
Ringworld on HBO with all the rishathra handshakes you can handle would at least hit a niche, I guess
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 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.
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
It won’t be hard beat the last season or two.
I just want a Babylon 5 reboot! Goddamnit!
Yes!
Who are you? What do you want?
There is the animated movie coming out.
Already came out months ago, it was terrible.
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
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.
I would love to see Sea Quest rebooted!
Isn’t this the second reboot and the third version?
Hmmm do they also have Stargate? It was on sci-fi channel
Amazon bought MGM who owns Stargate.
Yes they do. I hope they don’t try to reboot that too.
No they don’t, Amazon bought MGM who owns Stargate.
Yeah I’m not in favor of it. The old one (reboot) still holds up well.
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.
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.
I’m pretty much against it because I feel like it’s an opportunity to have to explain which BSG is actually the good one of them all to everyone you ever talk to about it. (Also, way way too soon for another reboot!)
And where’s the Firefly reboot?
Beware what you ask for.
That show could only be made worse.
I’d watch a new BSG for sure. I’m not exactly hopeful that it will actually happen. But if it does, I’d still watch it for sure
I love the idea of a V reboot was so disappointed when they canceled the last one.
That would be pretty cool.
I’d watch it because I distinctly remember being let down by the ending of the last version – everything after the writers’ strike was hot garbage. American TV really needs to learn to do tight seasons and series instead of dragging everything out until fans give up on it.