What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? 922
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?
Misfits of Science (Score:4, Funny)
Oh wait. That'd be Heros.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Score:5, Funny)
Princess Ardala, Col. Wilma Deering, and little robots that want to be your best friend.
What more could any nerd boy want?
Re:Reboot should get a Reboot! (Score:3, Funny)
Futurama. Think about Futurama reimagined in a younger, edgier style.
Fry: Chill, Hube. I'm like translating as fast as I can.
Leela: I'm so sick of being treated like some kind of object to be worshipped. I'm a real person with real feelings.
Young Zoidberg: You know, I don't think Mitchell likes me any more.
Leela: I'm pregnant.
[Everyone]: No.
With apologies to Stargate.
they should turn 'land of the lost' into a movie (Score:5, Funny)
maybe anchor it with a hip contemporary comedian?
i'm sure it would make lots of money
Re:Blakes 7 (Score:5, Funny)
ALF! (Score:5, Funny)
I've said it before, but I'll say it again -- the darker re-imagined ALF would be a blockbuster (I'm seeing this version of ALF as a movie, just to be clear).
We could establish with the big effects piece: the destruction of Melmac. We could shock the audience right away by killing off Lucky. Pretty soon it's a hunted man movie -- this year's District 9 -- and away we go!
We'd do all the big character surprises, too. Willie would be a female, maybe a hard-drinkin' fighter pilot with a bit of the reckless sex streak. The nosy old lady next door could be a transvestite (very edgy). Before the first act is done, ALF is halfway across the country -- a vast break from the original series, I should add -- and has left a trail of broken lives and broken promises behind him. There would the climactic fight. Willie avenging her dead cat. Lots of dialogue -- total ripoff of Kill Bill's climax. And the final blow. ALF is dead.
Star Wars Christmas Special (Score:3, Funny)
On Naboo with JarJar. George Lucas needs to outdo his last Christmas Special.
Re:Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Score:3, Funny)
What more could any nerd boy want?
The second season not to have happened?
Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
... no seriously. Slashdot needs to have a reboot with a younger cast. The cast of Slashdot had too little diversity. I'd like to see some more female leading characters... maybe a range of ages and some interesting quirky characters. The whole "Evil Bill" thing got old too. Perhaps we could make a new enemy?
Re:The Matrix and Highlander (Score:2, Funny)
Nothing was bad about them.. just some morons that didn't get the series.
Matrix was an okay movie, but it really needed Reloaded and Revolution to be a complete story. Each sequel made the whole story better and better, completing it.
Re:Why Firefly? (Score:4, Funny)
It's Slashdot, you're required by law to mention Firefly every time anything sci-fi comes up. Firefly, Firefly, Firefly.
Personally, I'm a huge sci-fi fan, and I don't like Firefly at all. But I can't say that due to Slashdot Law. Oh crap, it's the Slashdot Police...
Re:Blakes 7 (Score:3, Funny)
Oh and you cannot forget Servelan. She played hot sexy strong in a way I haven't seen yet the only person come close was the visitor leader in V the new series.
Hot damn. Morena Baccarin as Servilan.
Yes.
I'll be in my bunk!
Re:Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
The whole "Evil Bill" thing got old too. Perhaps we could make a new enemy?
I nominate kdawson...the biggest advantage is that it has that whole, evil but insider to the good guys' organization twist going for it.
Re:Blakes 7 (Score:2, Funny)
What about Alf? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Star Wars (Score:3, Funny)
Starwars. Episodes 1, 2 and 3 especially.
Lets let Uwe Boll remake them, should be an improvement.
Re:Why Firefly? (Score:5, Funny)
Man, you are way off. Firefly was primarily a story about a really cool guy who wore Hawaiian shirts, played with plastic dinosaurs, married a total badass wife, made funny (ding!) informative (ding!) and insightful comments (ding!), and occasionally flew the ship.
It is no wonder that a show without the main character would lose some appeal.
Re:Why Firefly? (Score:4, Funny)
(or for the Americans in the audience, Saved By The Bell: The College Years to Saved By The Bell.)
I do not think you are making your point as compellingly as you believe you are.
Re:Why Firefly? (Score:4, Funny)
Alan Tudyk, is that you?