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NBC is planning to reboot Battlestar Galactica for the second time. What do you think? (deadline.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Steveanonymous@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Instead of rebooting everything let’s get another few seasons of westworld (like season one of course)

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] HollandJim@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The second, Futureworld, was boring but it did have the earliest computer animation committed to film

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Finkler@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes to more Westworld and a very big NO to any more reboots.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's just hope they leave Lexx and Farscape tf alone.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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.