Almost certainly bad news for the reboot project, as Pedowitz was the executive who was championing it.
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Almost certainly bad news for the reboot project, as Pedowitz was the executive who was championing it.
Yes, new brooms usually sweep out the previous occupant's projects.
I thought I was in the pandemic thread for a second.
There's nothing wrong with rebooting a drama. The original will still be there. Like BSG and old BSG.
Just because the Royal Theater of London produced the be-all and end-all of all Shakespeare's The Tempest, doesn't mean that any other theater gotta stop "rebooting" that play with their own cast and scenery.
Yes, just because there's a version of The Tempest with Helen Mirren as Prospera instead of a male actor as Prospero doesn't invalidate any other interpretation such as Prospero's Books, which someone described as The Tempest set in a nudist colony.
We need to stop being so precious about adaptations of fictional stories. Such adaptations will succeed or fail according to the whims of the general public. Works of high merit or critical acclaim can fail to garner an audience. However, revisionism of real historic events is something to be guarded against as a couple of episodes of Babylon 5 noted.
We need to stop being so precious about adaptations of fictional stories. Such adaptations will succeed or fail according to the whims of the general public. Works of high merit or critical acclaim can fail to garner an audience. However, revisionism of real historic events is something to be guarded against as a couple of episodes of Babylon 5 noted.
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Doesn't make any sense. You can't kill a franchise that's already dead. The only thing the reboot can kill is the reboot.
This comment is patently ridiculous.
The original Babylon 5 will still exist regardless what happens with this reboot project.
Not much faith in cw to get it done though.
Such as...
Indeed. Would be interested in it to see what they attempt and maybe draw attention to the original if nothing else.
Yup. If people suddenly start yelling about how the original is so much better, a lot of people who never saw the original will be tempted to give it a try. There is no negative here. The only possible problem is if this particular reboot sucks, and it costs us a chance to see a different reboot that would have been good. But there is no other reboot being talked about so...
People used to say that about Kirk, and now we have 3 (counting SNW) Kirks across the various shows. With people like Bond and Batman, we are used to the character being portrayed by different actors.
And somehow, Shatner and Connery are still the ones all following Kirks and Bonds are measured against. It's as if their legacy was intact.
Lots of series don't get farther than a pilot or a first season. One out of three lasting longer than one season might be good going, I'm guessing. Perhaps one should also include Jeremiah and Sense8, which both lasted two seasons. In addition, number of episodes is not a good indicator of quality. Schlock can be very popular.
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The existence of a reboot would not have any effect whatsoever on the legacy of the original series.
Nothing that does or does not happen with this reboot will have any effect on the OG B5 or its cast.
Even if the reboot gets picked up and new actors are cast in the iconic roles originated by Bruce Boxleitner et al, Boxleitner et al will forever remain the originators of said roles.
The hill you've chosen to die on here is nonsensical and completely out of touch with the reality of how stories are told and demonstrates a significant lack of understanding about the very nature of storytelling itself.
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