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Peacock pulls the plug on Sam Esmail's Battlestar Galactica reboot
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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
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BSG 2003 was a reboot...
I'm aware. And what I'm saying is that reboots aren't necessary. It's nice when they work out like with BSG, but for every reboot success story there are dozens of shitty failed reboots or adaptations of existing stories.
but that has nothing to do with being a reboot or not. if they made those original stories instead they'd fail just the same, probably even harder.
The difference is that the original BSG was, if we're being honest, a bit crap. The '03 reboot took the skeleton of a good idea (humans on the run from an implacable army of robots) and lifted it up to some of the best scifi ever made. A reboot is warranted if the original leaves space for improvement, and the more such space the better. The '03 BSG is so good that virtually no such space exists. Ditto for conversations about rebooting the Lord of the Rings; what are you going to improve on?
Lord of the rings has aged noticeably and not in a good way. I really loved BSG2003 but I haven't rewatched more than a few episodes. A lot of commenters here are suggesting that it's aged poorly in places and the ending was always disappointing.