I once asked what media franchises need to just stop, that have run their time. Now I want to know which ones DID stop, and could be restarted with new content.
The Expanse
The show didn’t cover the Laconia story line, and given the time that passes before the final three books, we’re coming up on the perfect time to get the same cast back to do it.
The last few books are, in my view, the most compelling part of an already superb story.
Isn’t the time skip in the books like 20-30 years? its a while to wait until the actors have aged that much. I’d love to see it though.
Yes, but you certainly don’t need to and wouldn’t want to wait that long. You risk lower interest, retirements, loss of acting ability through death or injury, etc. You can convincingly age adults pretty soon. I think they could start filming now or easily within the next 5 years.
Aging 20-30 years in that future should be portrayed as ~10-15 years of aging in our timeline. People (esp. Inners) are far more long-lived thanks to advanced pharmaceuticals. See the coroner’s bit about life expectancies in S1.
There was this late 90s show called Sliders where this team travels to different parallel Earths with different histories. I would like to see that rebooted.
Best thing about a Sliders reboot is we could have one cameo per classic character, showing us where they finally landed. And then just continue on with the new cast.
That show was so good and then the network started fucking with it and ruined it. It’s almost unbelievable how bad it actually got, it’s comical, like they were trying to ruin a show.
I tried so hard to follow it as a kid. It got so confusing. But I loved it.
I would love to see a good reboot of Sliders. That was the show that got me started on the internet. The Scifi channel used to advertise their chatrooms on commercials and I would go to the library to chat with other Scifi channel nerds. Good times.
Lots of early 2000’s Scifi channel shows deserve a reboot
Eureka
Warehouse 13
Dresden Files
Librarian franchise (technically movies, but still)
Legend of Earthsea
Sanctuary
Just so many shows that either didn’t get the budget/attention they deserved, or were killed by the writer’s strike.
I didn’t really understand how TV worked back then, and I just hated that the Sliders crew couldn’t get back home
Sounds like the movie Parallels. Doesn’t have the most satisfying ending in the world but I always thought that it would make a good TV show, sounds like it already existed
The problem is not « what to reboot » it is How to reboot.
Just turn it off and on again.
I wish. I think the update have broken it
I always thought that every 30 years they should reboot back to the future. No connection to the original in terms of production team or cast. The writer and director can’t be old enough to have many memories of the time (Zemeckis and Gale were both 4 in 1955)
Just someone doing their own take on “teenager goes back in time and meets their parents as teenagers”
See how the “past” of 30 years ago compares to the “present” of the previous version
Long term, that could be a really interesting experiment
Also, for anyone who missed it, because I missed it, Back to the Future has continued in animation twice - once official, and again as Rick and Morty.
Yes! And Huey Lewis and the News show up in each film to tell the teenager that their music is too loud.
Do we also remake bttf2, so you can see what people think 30 years into the future is like?
I make no prescriptions beyond the first. No objection if they do, but i think “what will the near future look like” is more common and therefore less interesting
Too depressing and a whole other genre.
I seem to remember that bttf has some kind of binding agreement or such that someone from the og movies put into place that they can’t/won’t reboot it.
We did get the adventure game from telltale. Which was pretty good. (Did a lot of stuff with the storyline and it had og cast doing voices).
Since 2016, I’ve wanted a Back To The Future remake just to have a scene where Doc Brown disbelieves Donald Trump is president like the original had him disbelieve Ronald Reagan was president
I would say Firefly but then also there’s a chance it could be ruined so I don’t really know if it’s worth it.
It’s getting an animated series so close enough to a reboot?
This lines up pretty well with my thoughts on it.
A bad reboot or sequel ruins nothing. It’s just in your head.
Tell that to Gane of Thrones after the finale. People would go mental over the show while it was airing and immediately after the ending tarnished everything, they stopped talking about it completely. There’s even a spin-off currently airing and still nobody ever brings up the show.
You just broke the first two rules of Throne Club.
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Technically you are correct yes, because the whole of reality is all in my head.
Whoa.
Maybe don’t take a nap or anything, okay?
You got it ;)
Is that you, Tommy Westphall?
Wow that is a deep reference, I haven’t thought about that show in like 40 years. Nice :)
I was more referring to the Tommy Westphall Universe theory where nearly all American TV shows exist in the same universe within the mind of the St. Elsewhere character Tommy Westphall.
In case you weren’t aware of this phenomenon:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/tv/tommy-westphall-theory-unified-tv-universe-explained
https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/
https://nightingaledvs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Tommy-Westphall-Universe.pdf
I’ve never actually seen St. Elsewhere lol
Oh okay, yeah I remember my parents watching it when I was a kid, I had to look up that character I didn’t really know it was a trope. That makes sense for those 80s shows they were certainly all in another world lol.
Oh it’s not just 80s shows, it’s like every show. Including The Wire.
It’s actually a pretty entertaining thing to read about.
That means if you can learn mental techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions, you’d become a wizard, reshaping reality with a thought.
We’re all wizards really, we reshape reality with our thoughts all the time, all of our experiences and beliefs create a lens we see the world through. Our perception of reality can be vastly different depending on the inputs we have been given and the care that has been taken in allowing our minds to experience a life that is full of possibilities. A great deal of research has been done to manipulate us in the way of advertising that has been shaping our realities for many decades as well, much if it to tell you you need to buy x to experience that happiness that is innate in you anyways. It’s all in our perception, at least, subjective reality.
I agree. The capitalists are using the media to brainwash us into a capitalist reality. We need to fight back on the material and mental planes. We need occult communism.
IMO Stargate could use a reboot. I know a new series is in the works, and that this is supposedly a continuation rather than a reboot. But honestly I think I would prefer a clean reboot. I think this for two main reasons - contemporary relevance and power creep.
Stargate was unique in that it was a sci fi setting brought into our world. It’s not the enlightened 24th century humans of Star Trek seeking out new civilizations and going where no one has gone before. It’s some random US Air Force officers in our world today. People who could be your next door neighbor are visiting space aliens and fighting for the survival of humanity, and you’re completely oblivious. And as the series went on, the post-9/11 environment definitely was reflected in the Stargate world as well. So many of its themes explored anxieties of that era.
But now? Too much time has passed. The technology introduced by the events of the show would have percolated out into wider society and had such an impact that the Stargate world and our world don’t really resemble our own anymore. Maybe the new series will make it work. But that show was such a thing of its time, I think a complete reimagining would be the best way to bring it into the present.
Second, simple narrative power creep. As the story advances, humanity gathers artifacts and technologies. Now, one very cool difference between Stargate and Star Trek is that Stargate actually remembered its lore. In Star Trek, the ship’s doctor or chief engineer will invent a miraculous new technology or medical treatment, inventions that should have massive world-shifting implications…and then be promptly forgotten about. In one episode of TNG they discover a transporter effect that turns adults into children. Yet no one is later seen using transporters as a fountain of youth. In Stargate, the teams discover alien artifacts, meet and make alien allies, vanquish alien foes, etc. The official standing orders of the whole operation are to go through the gate and acquire new technology. And those technologies show up later in the show! Over the course of the show, humanity slowly grows from contemporary humans to a galactic-level power having acquired the complete technological and historical records of two of the most powerful races to have ever existed. They’re defeating literal gods at the end of SG1.
It was an amazing journey to go along. Hell, I grew up with that story. It was an epic journey to go down. Yet, it’s hard to see where you could credibly go from there. The power levels were already ridiculous at the end.
I would like to see a completely new SG1. In this setting, the Stargate program is started not in 1992, but in 2026. (Hell, you could canonically make it an alternate reality. Inter-reality travel was canonically established. So there would still be a way to do cameos of characters from previous series. Hell, feel free to really shake it up. Who says the aliens they meet out in the stars have to be exactly the same as in the original show? Alternate reality. Alternate history. Alternate aliens. This would allow the show to have a sense of genuine mystery even among those who watched the previous series. And it being an entirely alternate version of the creation of the SGC would allow a story to be told that better reflects our current times.
I did enjoy the recent Scrubs reboot.
Good to hear. It had slipped my mind
Its lost a lot of its magic, and the janitor isnt there, but its a lot better than I expected it to be. Its certainly better than the not-scrubs season that shouldn’t have been
the janitor isnt there
You need to watch a little further…
Also the KotH one was pretty good.
Whazzat?
King of the Hill.
Nice try, Hollywood.
What about Neverwinter Nights? 😁
I’ll take the obvious one: We owe it to ourselves to never stop rebooting the 1990s classic SciFi, “Reboot”.
The neverending story has not lived up to its name
Not a particular franchise, but I miss parody movies like Hot Shots or Airplane. Barring one of those being remade, I’d settle for a reboot of Tremors.
My 10 year old and I just watched airplane! And started top secret this weekend.
The tower! The tower! Rapunzel! Rapunzel!
Johnny was fucking hilarious, by far the funniest character. I could imagine the stuff he’d be in today if he didn’t pass away.
Oh and tremors 1 and 2 are in my top 20 favs.
“Bad news. The fog is getting thicker.”
“And Leon’s getting LARGER!”
Akiva shaffer just remade naked gun
Quite true, and I did enjoy it. I’m hopeful that its moderate success review-wise will mean others like it will get made (perhaps scifi parodies or spy film parodies).
That was a sequel, though
There’s a new Scary Movie coming, so… yay?
I wasn’t really psyched about it tbh, plus I’m not really into horror in general so the references would be lost on me anyways.
Maybe EARTHWORM JIM with new 3D photorealistic graphics.
Haha reminded me of this
Space Ghost
“Moltar!?!?!?!?!?. Get off the internet!”
From coast to coast?
Gritty or camp?
Oh yes! I would watch the shit out of a Gritty Space Ghost movie. That’s an opening night theater ticket purchase, for me.
Pretty sure there was a dark comic book series
Oh cool. I’ll look for that. Thank you.
Max Headroom could work, IFF they went full-bore with the mockery of media, corporatism-as-government and cynical view of advertising. Though the desolation inside and outside the cities and the plight of ‘blanks’ might hit too close to home nowadays as it’s pretty much a literal reality now.
They did attempt a reboot decades ago and completely dropped the ball taking Max from a satirical commentary about mainstream media and capitalistic nonsense into basically a talking head for capitalistic nonsense.
The actual original show was way ahead of its time and that change to it is what killed it.
Ow. That sounds horrible. I’m glad I’d never heard of it then, I guess. :(
I’m at the age now where I actually feel relieved if I hear news that Hollywood has decided not to go ahead with a prequel, remake, ‘re-imagining’, or whatever… and I purposefully avoid now the ones that sound like they’re going to be a disaster.
