I would love to see Sea Quest rebooted!
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"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
Isn't this the second reboot and the third version?
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.
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.
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
"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.
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.
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.
Ringworld on HBO with all the rishathra handshakes you can handle would at least hit a niche, I guess