Reboot Rumors?

POSTED BY: DREAMTROVE
UPDATED: Monday, February 27, 2017 08:42
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SOCKPUPPET

Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:53 AM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

Sorry, I absolutely LOVED the Scotty and Bones and Spock eps. in TNG.

Apology accepted :)

But for real I didn't mean cameos. It's the "install an old char to boost ratings" that jar the storyline. It tends to drag a show down. I'm sure we'd all love to see a BDH, but if there's to be a new firefly, I guess let it fly.

DREAMTROVE

Thursday, February 23, 2017 8:24 AM

I never looked, but was there ever any official aux content released, like there was with Buffy?

WISHIMAY

Thursday, February 23, 2017 7:59 PM

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Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:

I never looked, but was there ever any official aux content released, like there was with Buffy?

What is that?

BTW, I own Farscape DVDs but have never heard of Blake's 7 and neither has hubbs. Interesting.

ZEEK

Thursday, February 23, 2017 10:45 PM

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Originally posted by SOCKPUPPET:
Another question: Forward in time or backward?

I vote forward. Going backward is always so difficult to do. Like if they go back and do the war. We all know how it ends. Sure there are probably interesting characters and events in there, but it ultimately loses most suspense. What happened happened and that isn't going to change. Let's move forward where anything can happen.

VERASAMUELS

Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:08 PM

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BTW, I own Farscape DVDs but have never heard of Blake's 7 and neither has hubbs. Interesting.

Blake's 7 is a British sci-fi series [4 seasons] with excellent acting and pulling off great storylines on a tiny budget. Give it a go. Some of the characters in it will be hauntingly familiar to Firefly fans.

Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

DREAMTROVE

Friday, February 24, 2017 1:45 AM

WishIMay,
Blake's 7 was a british sci-fi show of the early 80s, very low budget, from a time when the BBC still hated sci-fi and always wanted it to die.

The premise is star trek, only the federation is evil, and our heroes are escaped criminals on a prison ship.

It's decidedly cheesy now by comparison, but it's where the idea was born.

I remember loving it as a kid. I tried watching some more recently. But this was the first time when you saw a group of characters who weren't entirely good and things didn't always go their way. Even when on the side of good, sometimes greater evil won.

It was a stark contrast to Star Trek, and Star Wars, a field of shades of grey, with the ever present potential of failure being real to the story, rather than a gimmicky plot device.

Aux content, like the Buffy comics, novels, etc. I see there are comics in the very next thread!
***crickets***

Zeek,

Agreed, Forward, easier to have cameo of older actors than younger ones.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, February 24, 2017 5:08 AM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

But ANY time a system gets bigger than any group of people's power, that system is generally not good at benevolence because it is too far removed from the consequences. The odds of more psychopaths running things goes up.

This would be off topic from the OP:
Starting about 12-14,000 years ago, following the "Great Flood" the "Cradle of Civilization" or "Center of Earth" (Medi-Terranean) was sufficiently isolated from the East (Orient) that single rulers could control all of the known world - Pharaohs, then some Romans and Macedonians.

Then in the last 2000 years, Man invented hay. And horses could survive winter away from Rome/Egypt. Thus the range of mankind stretched north of The Med, across Yurp and Britain, and beyond the effective control of one ruler. Some Emperors tried - French, British, Spanish, German. But nobody had things nailed down as well as the Pharaohs.

Then Henry VIII beheaded a slew of Queens, created the Anglican Church, pretended he was the New Pope, and essentially ticked off his grandson, James Stuart, Son of Mary Queen of Scots, King James VI of Scotland, and King James I of England. King James retaliated against all of the injustice and corruption derived from the intentional misinterpretation of the Bible by publishing one that any commoner could read without getting his head cut off - in English. Then anybody who could think for themselves fled Yurp to the New World, and yet again the known world was too vast for one ruler to reign over.

Pretty much all of the Surface of Earth is known now. There are no more vast New Worlds on Earth. Are we approaching the point when, with today's technology, communications, spying and recording, one person can control all of the world's population (at least the good parts)? Would a merger of Trump/Putin lead to this?

SOCKPUPPET

Monday, February 27, 2017 8:42 AM

I'll have to check it out.

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