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eh. I want a reboot if it's done well.
Same, and I'd trust Sam Esmail with it.
I don't get why stories need reboots. Why not just tell an original story heavily inspired by a thing? Like the Orville and Star Trek. If you like a thing, pay homage to it.
BSG 2003 was a reboot...
I'm aware. And what I'm saying is that reboots aren't necessary. It's nice when they work out like with BSG, but for every reboot success story there are dozens of shitty failed reboots or adaptations of existing stories.
but that has nothing to do with being a reboot or not. if they made those original stories instead they'd fail just the same, probably even harder.
The difference is that the original BSG was, if we're being honest, a bit crap. The '03 reboot took the skeleton of a good idea (humans on the run from an implacable army of robots) and lifted it up to some of the best scifi ever made. A reboot is warranted if the original leaves space for improvement, and the more such space the better. The '03 BSG is so good that virtually no such space exists. Ditto for conversations about rebooting the Lord of the Rings; what are you going to improve on?
Lord of the rings has aged noticeably and not in a good way. I really loved BSG2003 but I haven't rewatched more than a few episodes. A lot of commenters here are suggesting that it's aged poorly in places and the ending was always disappointing.
Seems like a lot of work to me...
Humans have been retelling stories for almost as long as they’ve been telling stories. There’s lots of ‘classic’ literature that’s a retelling of older stories. There are new stories that retell old stories but with new names and places.
It’s a way to adapt and interpret ideas and themes for new times/generations/perspectives.
The Orville was so good! It's a far better homage to Roddenberry's vision than any of the New Trek.
I'm fine with reboots or remakes of things that had an interesting idea, but the execution was bad the first time around. There's plenty of movies and TV shows that had something, but they failed on the delivery. Remake those things.
The Witcher is an example of why we don’t want that imo.
I'm torn about this.
As good and enjoyable as the last reboot was, I don't feel it's aging that well.
The graininess of the image and the jarring cuts between scenes (in an attempt to make things feel grittier and realer) doesn't do any favors to BSG.
Also that ending. I don't care if people wanna try and argue it fits. It was utter shit and is pulled practically from thin air.
People wanna argue that the religuous stuff was there from the beginning - doesn't mean the ending works or even fits as a whole.
I'd like to see a sequel series where Humanity and Cylons have come to some kind of truce or alliance (kinda just retcon the finale). Bring a different dynamic to the franchise than just humans vs Cylons. Maybe they encounter an alien enemy, maybe they are fighting against different factions of humans/cylons who disagree with the truce. Now that I'm thinking about it it sounds a lot like The Expanse, so maybe it would be redundant anyway.
That would be good.
I’d watch a version where the Cylons completely or almost completely wipe out humanity and then have an existential crisis like ‘now what the fuck do we do and why do we do it’.
"Can't we talk to the humans? A little understanding could make things better. Can't we talk to the humans and -..."
"- No, because they are dead"
That ending is exactly why a do over would be good. That can't fuck it up that bad twice.
Phhhhew
So say we all!
Many years ago, there was a film project running that obviously never got off the ground either. Bryan Singer was attached as director, he also wanted to redo Logan's Run as well.