Battlestar Galactica reboot to get new reboot from Mr. Robot creator
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That ain't the B plot of The Expanse. That's the arc plot. Without the zombies you don't get the gate and without the gate you don't get whatever killed the gate builders.
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I think you're looking for Quantum Leap, the first TV series which has a multi-season plot.
(I assume this is turtles all the way down).
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Well, yeah, because early soaps and such of the 70's had continuing storylines, as well. Did nobody watch Dallas?
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I do. But if we're including British stuff in the reboot grinder I'd put in votes for "Blake's 7" and "Star Cops".
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Blackadder Goes Forth, one of the best English comedy shows ever made, with the most poigniant, gut wrenching endings. I cried seeing it for the first time, and I'm not English. You won't find a single criticism of it in the UK.
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I get that... And yet... I didn't need the gate or the gate killers... I was more than satisfied with the political/corporate strife and the look of future humanity... And that Mormon ship was worth a few more stand alone episodes...
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Yeah I knew that but that doesn't change what I said I prefer the season 4 finale as the real ending (since it goes so much further into the future) for the franchise over the season 5 finale which is an ending for the station and characters.
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Anyone remember the failed spinoff of orginal battlestar ?
Set on modern earth with vipers that transformed into motorcycles ?
Set on modern earth with vipers that transformed into motorcycles ?
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Again, not the point. People obviously did see them as monstrous.
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It's too bad you had to guess at the spelling of his name. If only there were some way you could find out the correct spelling.
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That's the horrible "Galactica 1980" I mentioned earlier. If you can forget it, you should.
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I was originally skeptical of the Sci Fi series. However, it quickly won me over. I was sad to have reached the end.
What saddened me more was the short run of Caprica. Sad that they didn't explore the lead-up to the original Cylon war any further.
What saddened me more was the short run of Caprica. Sad that they didn't explore the lead-up to the original Cylon war any further.
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Yeah thankfully only vaguely recall it.
Except it seemed even more christian subplot heavy .. And my brain keeps falsely casting donny Osman and the blond guy from chips in the leads.. At least i hope its false.
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Can we have brand new sci fi stories rather than rebooted ones?
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I personally don't feel there's all that much more you can do with that universe without getting very weird. As in delving deeper into the prophecies and cycles of humanity, etc.
Also, Olmos is Bill Adama. I can't see anyone else pull off that character like he did.
Also, Olmos is Bill Adama. I can't see anyone else pull off that character like he did.
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Prediction: Starbuck will be a T this time.
I forced myself to watch B5 the first time, usually would start an episode as a sleep aid - worked better than any sleeping pill I've ever had. 3 minutes in and I was out. Way too much talking sorta like DS9.
I forced myself to watch B5 the first time, usually would start an episode as a sleep aid - worked better than any sleeping pill I've ever had. 3 minutes in and I was out. Way too much talking sorta like DS9.
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That's kinda hard as so much scfi is based on shorts written in 1950/1960s
Look at recent films
Arrival, good adaptation as original scifi aliens with different time perception was more focused on the river crossing problem in military negotiations
Passengers, bad adaptation og scifi had him much more anti hero as he was part of plot with another colonizer to wake up ealry to set themselves up as king and queen in new world but decides to wake up and have fling with pretty girl first then gets bored of her refreezes/ kills her wakes up his orginal coplotter who promply kills him as she made same deal with another male that she actually liked story ends as he looses conciousness gloating as he had already killed all other males and wondering why he hadn't stuck with first girl
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There's a lit of illiteracy in both the way this article is written and in the comments section. This is *not* a reboot or remake but more of a spinoff in the established 2004 BSG universe. Now feel free to delete the 200 comments that are now totally irrelevant.
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Unfortunately, my memory is such that I remember almost everything.
Yes, there was a sort of Christian sublot--the rag-tag fleet was nominally still led by Adama, but the person in charge was actually a child, named Doctor Z. Doctor Z was the offspring of Starbuck and one of those mysterious angelic beings that we occasionally saw in the original series, but this fact was only shown in a single episode that I believe was entitled "The Return of Starbuck".
Anyway, the lead for the show was a grown up Boxy, but he went by his actual name, Troy. And the reason you're probably reminded of CHiPs is that this character was played by Kent McCord-- the young cop from "Adam-12". The whole idea for the show was that after 20 years of wandering they found Earth, but we were too primitive to help them against the Cylons. So they were going to send their kids to Earth to be safe(r) and use them to raise our technology to a point where we could help them. Unfortunately, the Cylons were still pursuing them, and they found Earth too. Only at this point, the Cylons had developed machines that looked exactly like us. (so now you know where the reboot got that idea)
Thankfully, it only lasted a single season.
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Actually, the question is "how long before they're rebooting shows that haven't even started yet"...
I think this has already happened. I remember the B5 versus DS9 wars of the 90s. Both claimed the other was ripping them off. (At least on the fan side.) While DS9 got to air first, B5 had more evidence it was an idea on paper first. (note:20+ year old memories here)
I also remember a B5 blooper reel where someone asks where General Hague is and the response was "he went to deep space 9". The actor Robert Foxworth had left his B5 role because he got a role on DS9.
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Those choices did not come from the writing staff or the showrunners -- the network execs kept tripping over everyone mandating how the show needs to go.
Ron Moor had a plan for a 5 year run (which we never got Season 5) then a writers strike slammed into the middle of 07-08 and the execs opted to cut the series short by 1 year so everything got f*ed up.
So don;t blame the writers trying to make the most of a very bad situation when they had very little choice in the matter.
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That's basically correct. Though the un-cancellation happened early enough to do some minor rejiggering of season 4, too. In particular, Sleeping in Light was filmed as part of season 4, and then when season 5 was greenlit Deconstruction of Falling Stars was filmed (as part of the season 5 production block?).
Also, what ended up crammed into season 4 wasn't going to fill the entirety of season 5, but was going to be a bit more spaced out than it was aired. So, something like the Shadow war would've ended more like half way way through season 4, and season 4 would've ended on a cliffhanger in the middle of the Earth civil war, with the liberation of Earth coming in the first part of season 5. I don't remember how much of what ended up being in season 5 was originally planned for season 5. I'm not sure if maybe some of the B plots of season 5 would've originally been in season 4, with slightly different personnel?
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Surreal expressionist interpretation of the subject matter with every character portrayed as a letter of the alphabet?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The first 3 seasons of the Ronald Moore BSG were brilliant.
- Agreed that by season 4 Moore didn’t know how to end it.
(Kind of reminds me of George RR Martin & the end of GoT.)
* As for this new reboot, the same problems still apply.
Writing a series to move a story along seems far easier than coming up with a satisfactory ending.
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Why keep rehashing old series, There are thousands of stories out there in Sci Fi land. Off the top of my head how about a series in the Honor Harrington universe?
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I think you're looking for "Wagon Train" (1957 - 1962)
"The series chronicles the adventures of a wagon train as it makes its way from St. Joseph Missouri across the Mid-Western plains and the Rocky Mountains to California and the trials and tribulations of the series regulars who conducted the train through the American West."
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Yes, please!
(If it was a reboot, I wouldn't be enthusiastic, but a unique creation set in the same universe, done by the guy who did Mr. Robot? Great!)
(If it was a reboot, I wouldn't be enthusiastic, but a unique creation set in the same universe, done by the guy who did Mr. Robot? Great!)
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R U fraging killing me?
These studios are completely bereft of ideas or creative writers, or both.
There are like a gizzilion good books they can bring to life in a series.
For example, how about a series on The Expeditionary Force and the adventures of Skippy the Magnificent, and the Barney guy?!
These studios are completely bereft of ideas or creative writers, or both.
There are like a gizzilion good books they can bring to life in a series.
For example, how about a series on The Expeditionary Force and the adventures of Skippy the Magnificent, and the Barney guy?!
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After the desaster of the SpinOff I can't argue with that. Still sad..
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You know what, I don't hate this idea. We've had the intelligent, quality BSG reboot. Let's just have some crazy fun action based reboot. For quality space sci fi, we have The Expanse now.
Ooh, isn't it possible that WB could do Babylon 5 without JMS? Anything's possible nowadays. I just read they're rebooting Hogan's Heroes. No I'm not kidding.
https://deadline.com/2019/09/hogans-her ... 202736850/
Ooh, isn't it possible that WB could do Babylon 5 without JMS? Anything's possible nowadays. I just read they're rebooting Hogan's Heroes. No I'm not kidding.
https://deadline.com/2019/09/hogans-her ... 202736850/
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