In 2019, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail announced that he was working on a reboot of Battlestar Galactica, the sci-fi series from the late 1970s about humanity st
I don’t get why stories need reboots. Why not just tell an original story heavily inspired by a thing? Like the Orville and Star Trek. If you like a thing, pay homage to it.
I’m aware. And what I’m saying is that reboots aren’t necessary. It’s nice when they work out like with BSG, but for every reboot success story there are dozens of shitty failed reboots or adaptations of existing stories.
The difference is that the original BSG was, if we’re being honest, a bit crap. The '03 reboot took the skeleton of a good idea (humans on the run from an implacable army of robots) and lifted it up to some of the best scifi ever made. A reboot is warranted if the original leaves space for improvement, and the more such space the better. The '03 BSG is so good that virtually no such space exists. Ditto for conversations about rebooting the Lord of the Rings; what are you going to improve on?
Lord of the rings has aged noticeably and not in a good way. I really loved BSG2003 but I haven’t rewatched more than a few episodes. A lot of commenters here are suggesting that it’s aged poorly in places and the ending was always disappointing.
Humans have been retelling stories for almost as long as they’ve been telling stories. There’s lots of ‘classic’ literature that’s a retelling of older stories. There are new stories that retell old stories but with new names and places.
It’s a way to adapt and interpret ideas and themes for new times/generations/perspectives.
I’m fine with reboots or remakes of things that had an interesting idea, but the execution was bad the first time around. There’s plenty of movies and TV shows that had something, but they failed on the delivery. Remake those things.
I don’t get why stories need reboots. Why not just tell an original story heavily inspired by a thing? Like the Orville and Star Trek. If you like a thing, pay homage to it.
BSG 2003 was a reboot…
I’m aware. And what I’m saying is that reboots aren’t necessary. It’s nice when they work out like with BSG, but for every reboot success story there are dozens of shitty failed reboots or adaptations of existing stories.
but that has nothing to do with being a reboot or not. if they made those original stories instead they’d fail just the same, probably even harder.
The difference is that the original BSG was, if we’re being honest, a bit crap. The '03 reboot took the skeleton of a good idea (humans on the run from an implacable army of robots) and lifted it up to some of the best scifi ever made. A reboot is warranted if the original leaves space for improvement, and the more such space the better. The '03 BSG is so good that virtually no such space exists. Ditto for conversations about rebooting the Lord of the Rings; what are you going to improve on?
Lord of the rings has aged noticeably and not in a good way. I really loved BSG2003 but I haven’t rewatched more than a few episodes. A lot of commenters here are suggesting that it’s aged poorly in places and the ending was always disappointing.
Humans have been retelling stories for almost as long as they’ve been telling stories. There’s lots of ‘classic’ literature that’s a retelling of older stories. There are new stories that retell old stories but with new names and places.
It’s a way to adapt and interpret ideas and themes for new times/generations/perspectives.
Seems like a lot of work to me…
I’m fine with reboots or remakes of things that had an interesting idea, but the execution was bad the first time around. There’s plenty of movies and TV shows that had something, but they failed on the delivery. Remake those things.
The Orville was so good! It’s a far better homage to Roddenberry’s vision than any of the New Trek.
The Witcher is an example of why we don’t want that imo.