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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.

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[–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

I would love to see Sea Quest rebooted!

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Isn't this the second reboot and the third version?

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Ringworld on HBO with all the rishathra handshakes you can handle would at least hit a niche, I guess

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reboot of Stargate? Sir, drop your keyboard on the ground and put your hands above your head! Nobody has to get hurt!

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just finished a rewatch. Definitely not as good as I remember it.

That poor left Viper always landing crazy!

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It won't be hard beat the last season or two.

[–] mr_robot2938@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

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.