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Poll Disco v Lost in Space v Orville FIGHT
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In this case, I think a reboot was the way to go -- LiS was a damaged franchise associated with '60s camp and a failed movie. No series today was going to follow either template, and I'm glad they didn't try. Don't make it totally different and tell me it's the same.
LiS, to me, was the perfect subject for a reboot -- a good idea that had never been realized to its full potential.
LiS, to me, was the perfect subject for a reboot -- a good idea that had never been realized to its full potential.
Because there's no money in spinning off from the original. Unless you're planning on slapstick with Will Farrell and Jack Black. Even then most people wouldn't care.
How would that even work? A family is lost in space, then they get back. What would the sequel be? The kids are all grown up? That would feel like the 1988 Brady Bunch Reunion. A new family gets lost? It might as well be a reboot. Lost In Space isn't really conductive to sequels.
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But they didn't get back. So the sequel could be that Alpha Control receives some reliable evidence that the Jupiter II crew are still alive and lost. They then decide to mount a mission to go find the Jupiter II. The sequel series could be about the rescue mission.
Though, if it was up to me I would set the series a few years after season three rather than fifty years.
I don't see a sequel to the original LiS flying at all. You really need a modern reboot and then sequel off of that imo.
Return to Gilligan's Island. They find their way back to Earth, get the Jupiter 3 and then get lost again.
It could be a visual reboot that is in the original continuity of LiS set five years after the original series, but with updated design elements and they could radically change the design of the robot but still have it be a true 'sequel' to the canon story. You just gotta believe that it *always* looked that way.
*hides*
*hides*
But just like The Motion Picture you could integrate the visual reboot as part of the story. If it's been five years later things are going to change. So you don't even need to retcon anything.
Why?
And after they get lost again, somehow the Harlem Globetrotters make an appearance.
And then they are able to build a rocket ship out of materials from the island and...
Because outside of the crappy late 90's film LiS has been a dead franchise. The bulk of fans that would be down with a direct sequel to a 53 year old dead franchise would be septuagenarians+. Doesn't sound like a healthy place to begin a new show to me. At least not if you want to make money that is.
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Out of those three shows - I'd pick Discovery. Orville is okay, zero interest in Lost in Space. Watched one episode.
But I refuse to vote in this poll, as the best science fiction series in production isn't on this list - as that is The Expanse. This show is way better than these three shows.
But I refuse to vote in this poll, as the best science fiction series in production isn't on this list - as that is The Expanse. This show is way better than these three shows.
Hmm. It just doesn't seem like it would make much of a difference anyway. If a new show is good then why does the original fan base matter? It's not like only fans of the original show would watch the new one and then have to spread news of the new show through word of mouth.
What difference would it make if the Lost in Space reboot had been Lost in Space: The Sequel? It seems like if you put the same marketing into it, then it shouldn't matter.
They needed to reestablish the concept itself.
I love The Orville and am enjoying Lost In Space a great deal so far.
I've seen eight episodes of STD.
I don't see any ambition in STD; it's a pretty straightforward cash grab.
Honestly, it's a bit shocking that the Trek show hasn't built up more of a lead in the poll already, given the venue.
I've seen eight episodes of STD.
I don't see any ambition in STD; it's a pretty straightforward cash grab.
Honestly, it's a bit shocking that the Trek show hasn't built up more of a lead in the poll already, given the venue.
Then it wouldn't make any difference to brand it as LiS at all then.
So you make a direct sequel to a show very few people (in the target demo) have seen and might barely even have a clue of the backstory? I'd think they'd at least need a movie or TV movie rebooting and the 'sequel' show jumping off from that.
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