Alien Nation to be remade by TIM MINEAR on SyFy
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Minear is awesome. He wrote some of the best episodes of the X-Files, Angel, and Firefly. All had exceptionally good focus on characters.
Whch X-Files episodes did he write?
I thought he had written another, but he wrote two of them: Mind's Eye (which isn't great) and Kitsunegari (which I adore).
Ah, a Pusher episode. Wish I could remember that episode better.
'Just How Dark Will Alien Nation And New Quantum Leap Reboots Go?'
http://io9.com/5309533/just-how-dark-will-alien-nation-and-new-quantum-leap-reboots-go
http://io9.com/5309533/just-how-dark-will-alien-nation-and-new-quantum-leap-reboots-go
Well the buddy cop format did lighten things up but throughout the series you had the backdrop of the purist and the overseer hunts going on. Meanwhile the young had the dual societies pulling at them. To try to assimilate fully versus the unique draws of the native culture which survived slavary. If it goes to dark, I gues the series finale can be genocide.
New interview with Tim Minear:
I'll reserve judgment, but this doesn't sound promising.
Ugh. The movie sucked donkey balls. Ken Johnson hated that the movie was just "Miami Vice with coneheads."
I'll reserve judgment, but this doesn't sound promising.
As long as the series doesn't end up being xenophobic and isolationist, I'm onboard. Though Minear is certainly bringing in references left and right in this interview (The Wire! The Shield! Starsky and Hutch! Lethal Weapon! Pulp Fiction!), I'm hopeful that he'll craft something coherent. And, though he claims he is coming from the perspective of the movie first, if he's going to focus on racism, etc. it's clear the show will be much closer to the vein of the series.
Sounds like another attempt for Sci-Fi to do another generic cop show with a Sci-Fi twist. Is that all they want to do? Lightweight, generic shows were the main characters are always cops or FBI agents or people who investigate crimes. I'm so bored with how unorginal, most of there new shows tend to be. "Eureka" is the only one that has been all that intresting. All there best shows like Stargate,Farscape,Battlestar Galatica at least went with a premise that hasn't been played out countless times on network tv.
Jason
Jason
Except for focusing on Sykes's initial racism from the movie it sounds like a discription of the disfunctional Sykes becoming more human and not just a cop. Exactly what the TV series did.
Wow. I just finished rewatching this series a month ago. I'm interested to see how this is going to turn out. Now... if someone would just remake the War of the Worlds series I'd be really happy.
The original or second concept? I was thinking about that with the talk about the Newcomer population exploding. I saw the original like the Vietnamese boat people, after that initial rush there was not a continued influx of new aliens and their biology made rapid growth unlikely.
Strictly speaking, this isn't the first AN reboot. The TV movie series was a reboot of sorts, with all kinds of details from the series changed including the year of the ship crash being moved forward four years, the final episode cliffhanger erased and retold as a very different story, and many other alien background details changed. I guess also strictly speaking, the series was a reboot of the movie. No question that a reboot could work if done right. Here's hoping for the best.
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