Not necessarily a reimagining, but a premise. A concept.
I’d love to see an un-bungled True Detective again.
night country was pretty good.
The Starlost needs a remake. Great premise, dollar store execution.
What they wanted:
Foreseeing the destruction of Earth, humanity builds a multi-generational starship called Earthship Ark, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 200 miles (320 km) long. The ship contains dozens of biospheres, each kilometres across and housing people of different cultures. Their goal is to find and seed a new world of a distant star.
In 2385, more than 100 years into the voyage, an unexplained accident occurs, and the ship goes into emergency mode in which each biosphere is sealed off from the others.
Centuries after its original launch, most of the descendants of the original crew and colonists are unaware that they are even aboard a spaceship.
How it went:
Unable to sell The Starlost for prime time, [20th Century Fox television producer Robert] Kline decided to pursue a low budget approach and produce it for syndication. By May, Kline had sold the idea to 48 NBC stations and the Canadian CTV network.
Originally, the show was to be filmed with a special effects camera system developed by Doug Trumbull called Magicam. … The technology did not work reliably, however. In the end, simple blue screen effects were used, which forced static camera shots. … The failure of the Magicam system was a major blow, as the Canadian studio space that had been rented was too small to build the required sets. In the end, partial sets were built, but the lack of space hampered production.
As the filming went on, [the writer Harlan] Ellison grew disenchanted with the budget cuts, details that were changed, and what he characterized as a progressive dumbing down of the story. … Ellison broke with the project before the airing of its first episode.
Revolution.
Yeah, the premise was awesome, world building was decent, but just too teen drama imo
It was fun sometimes watching Tracy Spiridakos struggle to emote 😄
(And all the yanks thinking the woman clearly speaking in an Australian accent was British… no, actually that was confusing. Took me almost a season to realize the character was actually supposed to be British.)
For those wondering, premise was what if all electricity just stopped working. What would happen to our society.
LA Brea.
Great premise ruined by bad writing full of plot holes and somehow worse acting. But man, the concept could go so far.
Sword art online. Drop the rape and incest beats entirely. It had potential to be a great anime about the meaning of life and instead largely ignored that possibility.
I have that show on my watchlist so thanks for the warning about themes.
None of the cringe happens until the end of the first season.
My recommendation for SAO is watch the first season and pretend like the rest doesn’t exist.
Mine is legitimately just watch SAO abridged. It reworks story beats for a smoother story in addition to adding gags
Is that rework anything like full metal alchemist Vs. FMA brotherhood? Like starts the same but then goes somewhere else?
I already have a copy of the whole SAO so I’ll probably still watch it (I’ve watched some pretty questionable stuff all the way through just because I started it…) but if it’s genuinely worth watching both, even if just for the sake of comparison, I’ll try to find a copy.
SAO abridged is a fan parody that you can find on YouTube, but as said before me, it has a way better storyline than the original and the production quality is incredible for a fan project.
The only downside is that the team can make approximately one episode per year.
Brotherhood is an official anime. SAO abridged is a fan made parody on YouTube. it recuts and redubs but that’s it. And its purpose isn’t to tell the whole SAO story, it’s to make gags. It just inadvertently made a better story than SAO itself, mostly by changing certain characters motivations
Edit: oh and if you’re intent on watching the full version at all, watch it before the abridged
Better character writing too.
Star Trek Voyager. I don’t think I need to explain further, we all have the same ideas.
Looks like the upcoming game will do the fixing though, so that’s good.
Wayward Pines. Great concept but then they basically explained everything in a handful of episodes and took the whole mystery out of it. Also, some of the acting was terrible.
In some ways, Silo is its spiritual successor but without
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monsters.
It corrects for those mistakes and sustains the mystery.
Another one I’d like to see redone or relaunched, West World. Incredible first season. Nothing left in the writer’s tank after that. That first season was so good though that I don’t think it can be rebooted.
Yeah, when I started WP I thought it was going to spend the whole series building up to some kind of slow reveal but no.
Lost Girl. I was so in for a succubus themed mystery drama type affair, but I couldn’t maintain interest through the second season. It was slow and awkwardly written, but I think the subject is solid and it could have been done a lot better.
Give me Lucifer with a Succubus lead, come on TV execs
The show actually had a great ending, but season 4 was really bad
Space Force, really good cast and concept but I wish they better writing.
Of course they had to end the second season in a cliffhanger so we’ll never get to see its resolution thanks to Netflix canceling it. There should be a law about that.
Some of the writing was VERY good, but you had to wade through a lot of filler to find it.
I still love Steve Carrell hiss yelling “Stop saying Panties!”
Severance. Season 2 was a money grab and an artistically fraught endeavour from conception. They shouldn’t have tried to write it, let alone record and release it.
I’d kind of like to see someone do Brave New World a bit better. It was done in the 60s(?) but it’s just a bit out of date today, while the book is absolutely something the world needs to think about now. A modern version might actually be even enhanced by certain elements of the modern style.
There was a modern attempt by Peacock in 2020. It got cancelled.
Quite disappointing.
The adaptations quality, or that it got cancelled?
I haven’t seen it. It’s disappointing that it was cancelled.
Ah, it was okay. It was a reimagining of it. Very philosophical. Closer to Westworld imitation than Brave New World in many ways.
Swamp Thing was so much worse than it could have been. Gothic horror, beauty and the beast, cosmic terror, body horror, monster of the week serial but it’s a bigger monster hunting monsters, etc it’s got all these interesting angles and they ended up focusing on none of them.
Dead Like Me And the Dark Crystal show needed the ending it deserved.
Heroes had so much going for it before the writers strike, the premise of that show felt so good then it just got bad.
Please remake and give proper endings to warehouse 13 and utopia
