Science Fiction

And there's also William Gibson's entire Sprawl series, which would be very cool to see on a screen.

I love the Sprawl books, and Neuromancer has been in development hell a few times IIRC, but I'm hesitant.

Reading Gibson's words, they're so evocative, but a lot is left unspecified and the reader kinda fills in the blanks based on the feeling he is conveying. A show pins everything down visually and I'm afraid even Neuromancer would get rendered as generic cyberpunk without Gibson's unique style.

Oh I agree with you, I'm just saying if they must reboot an NBC property, there are other science fiction properties they own that they could go with instead.

And that doesn't even go into all the Universal science fiction movies. If they must make a TV show based on their properties, let's see what a good showrunner could do with The Thing or They Live or The Last Starfighter.

If Sam Esmail was showrunner, I'd think he might do something interesting with it, but since he's only producing, I'm guessing not. But even if it does end up being good, it should still never have been greenlit in the first place in my opinion. It might be good despite that. I'll keep an open mind and watch the pilot because I will give practically anything taking place in space a chance, but I wish something else was given a shot instead and I'm not hopeful.

As an example, you see a lot of high-budget TV and movie productions scored by Bear McCreary nowadays. The dude made his chops with BSG, and has done a ton of work since.

I guess we should have listened to Ronald D. Moore when we had the chance. Now let me ask ChatGPT what it thinks of a BSG reboot.

The miniseries was at the peak of what is achievable in sci-fi IMO. The follow up with “33” just cemented it.

That's exactly why they shouldn't reboot it. It's hard to make good TV. Reboots are rarely good, because you don't just have to beat the average, you have to beat the previous show. The odds of beating that original BSG are essentially nil.

There's plenty of things they could reboot instead. Do a reboot / spinoff / prequel of Stargate. Re-do Sliders. Buy the rights to Babylon 5 and do a spinoff of that (also, re-release the full quality original, which has been locked up for decades now). Re-make Day of the Triffids, but as a series. The concept there is pretty open-ended so you could go for years.

Or, there's a whole lot of superhero-comedy stuff that could do well. Less extreme than The Boys, but stuff like Misfits of Science, Greatest American Hero, My Secret Identity, etc.

Or adapt something new, like Ringworld, Hyperion, make an Ender's Game series.

Don't try to re-remake one of the most successful remakes ever.

Pardon me, you are correct. I will adjust the title.

Right? Being stuck planet side with a shitty self-preserving President is too close to the future potential of real life, and a reminder of four+ years ago.

BSG and Lost were both going on around the same time and they both had a lot of intriguing puzzles and twists that never ended up actually paying off.

But hey, good to know that Asimo was the beginning of the robot revolution and the new Cylon 2.0 (or... 3.0?) uprising.

Beware what you ask for.

I don't know that I'd want them to reboot it. That show was lightning in a bottle.

That show could only be made worse.

That was a sequel, not a reboot. And it wasn't even really a sequel. It was a next season that they slashed the budget massively for, recast and retitled. Also, it's best forgotten.

I'm not sure how you could continue from the either the original or the reboot's storyline, but years ago I worked very hard (and ultimately failed) to get NBCU to agree to a pre-podcast era (i.e. sold on CD) radio drama about a different ship in the reboot BSG fleet and it's adventures while the main show went on, and you would feature all the fleetwide broadcasts from the show at the right times to fit everything chronologically and I still think that would be an amazing idea. Oh well.