I once asked what media franchises need to just stop, that have run their time. Now I want to know which ones DID stop, and could be restarted with new content.
The problem is not « what to reboot » it is How to reboot.
Just turn it off and on again.
I wish. I think the update have broken it
There was this late 90s show called Sliders where this team travels to different parallel Earths with different histories. I would like to see that rebooted.
That show was so good and then the network started fucking with it and ruined it. It’s almost unbelievable how bad it actually got, it’s comical, like they were trying to ruin a show.
I tried so hard to follow it as a kid. It got so confusing. But I loved it.
I would love to see a good reboot of Sliders. That was the show that got me started on the internet. The Scifi channel used to advertise their chatrooms on commercials and I would go to the library to chat with other Scifi channel nerds. Good times.
I didn’t really understand how TV worked back then, and I just hated that the Sliders crew couldn’t get back home
Sounds like the movie Parallels. Doesn’t have the most satisfying ending in the world but I always thought that it would make a good TV show, sounds like it already existed
Best thing about a Sliders reboot is we could have one cameo per classic character, showing us where they finally landed. And then just continue on with the new cast.
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It’s getting an animated series so close enough to a reboot?
A bad reboot or sequel ruins nothing. It’s just in your head.
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Whoa.
Maybe don’t take a nap or anything, okay?
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Is that you, Tommy Westphall?
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I was more referring to the Tommy Westphall Universe theory where nearly all American TV shows exist in the same universe within the mind of the St. Elsewhere character Tommy Westphall.
In case you weren’t aware of this phenomenon:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/tv/tommy-westphall-theory-unified-tv-universe-explained
https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/
https://nightingaledvs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Tommy-Westphall-Universe.pdf
I’ve never actually seen St. Elsewhere lol
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Oh it’s not just 80s shows, it’s like every show. Including The Wire.
It’s actually a pretty entertaining thing to read about.
That means if you can learn mental techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions, you’d become a wizard, reshaping reality with a thought.
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I agree. The capitalists are using the media to brainwash us into a capitalist reality. We need to fight back on the material and mental planes. We need occult communism.
Tell that to Gane of Thrones after the finale. People would go mental over the show while it was airing and immediately after the ending tarnished everything, they stopped talking about it completely. There’s even a spin-off currently airing and still nobody ever brings up the show.
You just broke the first two rules of Throne Club.
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This lines up pretty well with my thoughts on it.
Nice try, Hollywood.
Max Headroom could work, IFF they went full-bore with the mockery of media, corporatism-as-government and cynical view of advertising. Though the desolation inside and outside the cities and the plight of ‘blanks’ might hit too close to home nowadays as it’s pretty much a literal reality now.
I’ll take the obvious one: We owe it to ourselves to never stop rebooting the 1990s classic SciFi, “Reboot”.
Not a particular franchise, but I miss parody movies like Hot Shots or Airplane. Barring one of those being remade, I’d settle for a reboot of Tremors.
Akiva shaffer just remade naked gun
Quite true, and I did enjoy it. I’m hopeful that its moderate success review-wise will mean others like it will get made (perhaps scifi parodies or spy film parodies).
That was a sequel, though
My 10 year old and I just watched airplane! And started top secret this weekend.
The tower! The tower! Rapunzel! Rapunzel!
Johnny was fucking hilarious, by far the funniest character. I could imagine the stuff he’d be in today if he didn’t pass away.
Oh and tremors 1 and 2 are in my top 20 favs.
“Bad news. The fog is getting thicker.”
“And Leon’s getting LARGER!”
There’s a new Scary Movie coming, so… yay?
I wasn’t really psyched about it tbh, plus I’m not really into horror in general so the references would be lost on me anyways.
I always thought that every 30 years they should reboot back to the future. No connection to the original in terms of production team or cast. The writer and director can’t be old enough to have many memories of the time (Zemeckis and Gale were both 4 in 1955)
Just someone doing their own take on “teenager goes back in time and meets their parents as teenagers”
See how the “past” of 30 years ago compares to the “present” of the previous version
Long term, that could be a really interesting experiment
Do we also remake bttf2, so you can see what people think 30 years into the future is like?
I make no prescriptions beyond the first. No objection if they do, but i think “what will the near future look like” is more common and therefore less interesting
Too depressing and a whole other genre.
Since 2016, I’ve wanted a Back To The Future remake just to have a scene where Doc Brown disbelieves Donald Trump is president like the original had him disbelieve Ronald Reagan was president
I seem to remember that bttf has some kind of binding agreement or such that someone from the og movies put into place that they can’t/won’t reboot it.
We did get the adventure game from telltale. Which was pretty good. (Did a lot of stuff with the storyline and it had og cast doing voices).
Also, for anyone who missed it, because I missed it, Back to the Future has continued in animation twice - once official, and again as Rick and Morty.
Yes! And Huey Lewis and the News show up in each film to tell the teenager that their music is too loud.
Space Ghost
“Moltar!?!?!?!?!?. Get off the internet!”
From coast to coast?
Gritty or camp?
Oh yes! I would watch the shit out of a Gritty Space Ghost movie. That’s an opening night theater ticket purchase, for me.
Pretty sure there was a dark comic book series
Oh cool. I’ll look for that. Thank you.
I feel like Buck Rodgers could get rebooted to today and do well.
There was a Captain Planet parody with Don Cheadle like 15 years ago which was very much like The Boys + Captain Planet. I think that could actually work well now and have a more mature tone of Captain Planet who is like Homelander.
I saw that series a few weeks ago and I didn’t like it. “Captain Planet starts killing” is a great premise, and I really liked it in the episode of Rick and Morty where Morty dates Planetina until she starts murdering coal miners.
But in the Cheadle version, he’s just an asshole for no reason. I don’t think Captain Planet is the right character to use for a “corrupting influence of power” story unless you’re going to do a very nuanced critique of Soviet ideals.
I mean Homelander is also an asshole for no reason, but that story works, because he’s a capitalist and an abuse victim. The story makes sense. It’s telling us that capitalism and superheroes are incompatible. But what’s Cheadle Planet telling us? That environmentalism and superheroes are incompatible? I don’t believe that story. I have an easier time believing that environmentalism and pacifism are incompatible, like in Rick and Morty. But I don’t think environmentalism and being a good person are incompatible.
The world needs more Gex.
Bubsy 4D looks like a great game. Would love to see a Gex reboot like that.
I miss black and white. Also I would like to play something like viva piñata.
I’ve wanted a vr black and white since Oculus first took off. Change view by pulling and pushing the world around.
There are a few god games for VR like Townsmen and Deism.
I’ve tried and they both felt really unpolished
None. People need to move on and create new experiences. Recycling is for garbage.
Nice try, Hollywood.
