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What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-much-firefly-love dept.

Not long ago Wired ran their own list of which SciFi (not SyFy!) shows were in need of another go 'round in this era of the reboot. Well, it looks like many fans had their own opinions resulting in another list of reboots including everything from Firefly (please?) to The Outer Limits. Which SciFi stories could use the breath of life, and which ones might actually succeed it getting it?

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  1. Re:How about Rebooting Reboot? by kannibal_klown · · Score: 2, Informative

    A canadian animation that took place in

    I agree on the sentiment...

    But it was inside a Computer, not a game console. The "User" just happened to like playing the occasional game.

    I believe they said it out right in an episode, plus one day they were all impatiently waiting for a new upgrade.

    Then again I could be wrong.

    Fun series. They continued via a Comic a little later, but I hadn't heard of a revitalization.

  2. B5: Crusade by happy_place · · Score: 2, Informative

    I always wanted to see this series completed. never happened. and the series had issues, like the music, and the main actor was Mr. Brady from the Brady Bunch movies, but it had potential until TNT execs tried to turn it into "Wrestlemania/Sexromp in Space"... ironically, SyFy channel has since been plagued by the meme of the same execs. :)

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    1. Re:B5: Crusade by Flounder · · Score: 2, Informative

      B5 is one of my all-time favorite TV shows, and I've been introducing my fiancee to it. Half-way through S1 right now, and a lot of the storylines really do hold up. Sure, the CGI is dated, and the acting is a bit stilted (but does get better), but the stories are still superior to a lot on TV today.

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  3. Re:Max Headroom by Hatta · · Score: 2, Informative

    The entire run of Max Headroom is available for torrent via dapcentral.org if you're unable to wait.

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  4. Re:Blakes 7 by Botched · · Score: 3, Informative

    umm, it is on DVD (I'm seeing non-US format, but that's easy to get around)

  5. Re:Why Firefly? Here's why... by chrysrobyn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Agreed, un-kill Wash and Shepard Book. Although, honestly, a 7 year run could take place in the intervening year between the end of the series and movie. Not sure a sane genius class River would improve a continued show any.

    Miranda is easy to accept, though. She's not a planet that's forgotten or overlooked, not a perturbation on plots or anything. She was a young colony that was still new to people's minds. Mal even knew "terraforming didn't take or somesuch". She was publicly known to be a failure, and even the mangnitude of the failure was known. The nature of the failure was the only unknown.

    Human history is filled with similar misdirected failures.

  6. Re:Why Firefly? by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's Vancouver, BC, thank you very much.

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  7. You smell like bacon... by Lilith's+Heart-shape · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only Star Wars movie that didn't suck, The Empire Strikes Back, was written by a woman named Leigh Brackett.

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  8. Geeky/nerdy can work if done right by syousef · · Score: 3, Informative

    This show is a sit com in which Schrodenger's cat was explained.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory#U.S._standard_ratings

    The reason most sci-fi tanks is that it's so poorly done.

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