Sy-Fy seeks new space opera

[SeerSGB]

Ron Moore's Lost in Space

-- Will's a young genius, who's borderline homicidal.
-- Doc. Smith is a figment of will's imagination.
-- Penney and Judy fight for the affection of Col. West
-- Col. West is a pissed off loner type that is working for a shadow govt. agency with their own agenda.
-- Prof. Robinson is a recovering drunk, haunted by the fact that it was his wife was killed during the test flight of the Jupiter I..
-- Jupiter II is a run down beaten up heaviyly reworkd testbed ship, the last of the scrapped Jupiter program.
-- B-9 Robot, a product of alien tech and human tech. Apparently can hear or see Doc. Smith as Will can. Harbors deep, deep, resentment of humans.

 

[Roshi]

No Star Trek series for at least another 10 year period!

 

[Opus]

Ron Moore's Lost in Space

-- Will's a young genius, who's borderline homicidal.
-- Doc. Smith is a figment of will's imagination.
-- Penney and Judy fight for the affection of Col. West
-- Col. West is a pissed off loner type that is working for a shadow govt. agency with their own agenda.
-- Prof. Robinson is a recovering drunk, haunted by the fact that it was his wife was killed during the test flight of the Jupiter I..
-- Jupiter II is a run down beaten up heaviyly reworkd testbed ship, the last of the scrapped Jupiter program.
-- B-9 Robot, a product of alien tech and human tech. Apparently can hear or see Doc. Smith as Will can. Harbors deep, deep, resentment of humans.

Make Col. West a woman who Penny and Judy fight for her affections and you've got a greenlight on that project!!

 

[SeerSGB]

Ron Moore's Lost in Space

-- Will's a young genius, who's borderline homicidal.
-- Doc. Smith is a figment of will's imagination.
-- Penney and Judy fight for the affection of Col. West
-- Col. West is a pissed off loner type that is working for a shadow govt. agency with their own agenda.
-- Prof. Robinson is a recovering drunk, haunted by the fact that it was his wife was killed during the test flight of the Jupiter I..
-- Jupiter II is a run down beaten up heaviyly reworkd testbed ship, the last of the scrapped Jupiter program.
-- B-9 Robot, a product of alien tech and human tech. Apparently can hear or see Doc. Smith as Will can. Harbors deep, deep, resentment of humans.

Make Col. West a woman who Penny and Judy fight for her affections and you've got a greenlight on that project!!

We need to work Stargate in there too.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Let someone come up with a new variation on the space opera premise.

If they do have to dig back and resurrect some old property, they should do "Forbidden Planet"...but maybe let David Lynch at it.

 

[SeerSGB]

Let someone come up with a new variation on the space opera premise.

If they do have to dig back and resurrect some old property, they should do "Forbidden Planet"...but maybe let David Lynch at it.

Sacrilege! Blasphemer! No one shall dare touch the holy chronicle of the Krell! Zombie guards, seize him!

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Let someone come up with a new variation on the space opera premise.

Well, mashing together two different genres worked for Star Trek and Firefly.

Hmm...

Scrubs meets Babylon 5?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Let someone come up with a new variation on the space opera premise.

If they do have to dig back and resurrect some old property, they should do "Forbidden Planet"...but maybe let David Lynch at it.

Sacrilege! Blasphemer! No one shall dare touch the holy chronicle of the Krell! Zombie guards, seize him!

Yeah, right.

I've always thought it would be fun to recreate "Forbidden Planet" in exactly that frozen-in-the-1950s mode - the naive, "Donna Reed Show" culture, the 50s organization men, even the coils and vacuum-tubes-and-neon design - and over time delve into how weird and not-quite-right their history and culture and beliefs about the cosmos are. It's not our future and it didn't evolve from our world today; it's something parallel and kind of surreal, and What's Really Going On?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'm sorry to say this - being a Trek fan - but I think that a new series so soon after the success of the new movie is a horrible idea. We do not want to oversaturate the market again with another Trek series.

"Oversaturation" was never the problem, and that wouldn't be the problem now. One movie that will soon be gone from the theaters if it isn't already cannot constitute anything close to "saturation." Michael Jackson's funeral coverage? THAT is saturation. And even that will soon be history (thank gort!)

In such a fragmented, noisy and crowded pop culture entertainment cosmos, saturation would be very difficult to achieve, and the market is getting more fragmented - and less saturatable - all the time. No, the problem was that 1) people weren't liking what they saw until Trek XI; and 2) the TV market has become a very difficult place for space opera (as well as for pretty much all other genres).

Paramount didn't buff up the Trek brand so that it can be frittered away on the low-profile likes of basic cable, ie, Skiffy. CBS might want to capitalize on Paramount's brand-building work but CBS is probably tied with the CW as the worst place to put a Trek series. They could produce it and sell it to another broadcast channel, but that goes against current trends of networks owning what they air. Forget HBO or Showtime; if they were ever interested in doing a sci fi series, Trek wouldn't fit their adult/artsy/premium brand. Trek may be reasonably grownup, but it's not HBO-style grownup, and shouldn't be. It just isn't a good fit. Trek belongs on NBC or Fox, even if I can't envision how it could easily get there.

No Star Trek series for at least another 10 year period!

You remind me of those geniuses who declared that after ENT was cancelled, there shouldn't be Trek of any kind for 10 (or 50) years, because it would "obviously fail" due to "oversaturation."

 

[Chaos Descending]

Sci-Fi or whatever they're calling themselves these days already had a "space opera" show and they canceled it at short notice despite it being the number one reason why they're still broadcasting.

I'm talking about Farscape. Never mind, though, I'm sure the Stargate franchise is doing well for you.

Corrected.

Don't ever do that to my posts, thank you.

Oh for fornication's sake. Lighten up.

 

[Hermiod]

Oh for fornication's sake. Lighten up.

I didn't say I was angry about it, I just prefer it if people not do that. At this point, I think new Farscape might be a big success for Sci-Fi.

 

[SeerSGB]

Let someone come up with a new variation on the space opera premise.

If they do have to dig back and resurrect some old property, they should do "Forbidden Planet"...but maybe let David Lynch at it.

Sacrilege! Blasphemer! No one shall dare touch the holy chronicle of the Krell! Zombie guards, seize him!

Yeah, right.

I've always thought it would be fun to recreate "Forbidden Planet" in exactly that frozen-in-the-1950s mode - the naive, "Donna Reed Show" culture, the 50s organization men, even the coils and vacuum-tubes-and-neon design - and over time delve into how weird and not-quite-right their history and culture and beliefs about the cosmos are. It's not our future and it didn't evolve from our world today; it's something parallel and kind of surreal, and What's Really Going On?

It's a interesting premise, to be sure: Retro sci-fi. But to much room for it to become self parody. Then again, that's always a line people worry about with steampunk, so it could work in the right hands. But, to be honest, I don't think Syfy is the right hands.

 

[Samurai8472]

Ron Moore should be involved somehow. Just change it to the Ron Moore network!

The tagline

"More action.........Moore SyFy"

-- Prof. Robinson is a recovering drunk, haunted by the fact that it was his wife was killed during the test flight of the Jupiter I.

The crew encounters a shuttle and Robinson is shocked that one of it's passengers is his wife? but how? HOW?!?

 

[Chaos Descending]

I didn't say I was angry about it, I just prefer it if people not do that. At this point, I think new Farscape might be a big success for Sci-Fi.

Fair enough. And having never been a big Farscape fan, I don't think bringing it back is the answer either.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It's a interesting premise, to be sure: Retro sci-fi. But to much room for it to become self parody.

Anything can go wrong. Badly wrong. I mean, networks fuck up simple buddy cop shows. The only time that this stuff is really any fun is when something that's different and odd somehow doesn't go wrong and in fact goes right in an unexpected direction.

 

[Aragorn]

Since redoing the familiar is the big thing going on, they'll probably just reboot Babylon 5, Andromeda, Earth: Final Conflict, Space: Above and Beyond or something like that.

Firefly -- starring Michael Shanks as Malcolm Reynolds, Carlos Bernard as Jayne Cobb and Moon Bloodgood as Inara Serra.

 

[SeerSGB]

It's SyFy, I'm betting on "Twilight: The Series" being announced anytime now.

 

[Dream]

It's SyFy, I'm betting on "Twilight: The Series" being announced anytime now.

Vampire tween tv show? Nah. The CW is already doing a show like that this fall with Vampire Diaries.

 

[RoJoHen]

They should go straight to Rockne O'Bannon for something new.

And if his something new happens to look a lot like Farscape, then so be it!

 

[Aurian]

I would jump with joy if only they would bring back farscape..