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<blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 4716111" data-attributes="member: 2732"><p>Well, from what I could tell, the TV show had a lot of problems as well. If you watch it today, there are a lot of flaws. (One thing disturbing me was the amount of use of chemicals for interrogation and capture, sort of a "date rape" acceptance. Maybe that came from the 70s.). And of course the show hasn't aged very well--the movie handled a lot better than the TV show. (Let's not even start on the "reboot" that came in the second season.) Buck Rogers the TV show was one of the things that gave JMS the statement "no cute kids or robots" when he decided on Babylon 5.</p><p></p><p>Earlier science fiction has a hard time adapting as much as science-fantasy or fantasy genre's, partly because science changes over time. Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Lensmen, etc., all tend to suffer as changes in technology and culture come to the fore. Heck, even the competition can make existing entiries seem stale and dated--as Star Wars ended up doing to virtually every SF movie when it came out. The Sci-Fi channel recently tried to do a Flash Gordon reboot, and it was not very successful. </p><p></p><p>The point I need to make is, not all franchises can handle a "reboot", nor should all older properties be "re-imagined". Some should just be celebrated as the classics they are. I'd rather see creative energy go into creating new stuff like the next Babylon 5 or Farscape than trying to resurrect once-popular items.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnRTroy, post: 4716111, member: 2732"] Well, from what I could tell, the TV show had a lot of problems as well. If you watch it today, there are a lot of flaws. (One thing disturbing me was the amount of use of chemicals for interrogation and capture, sort of a "date rape" acceptance. Maybe that came from the 70s.). And of course the show hasn't aged very well--the movie handled a lot better than the TV show. (Let's not even start on the "reboot" that came in the second season.) Buck Rogers the TV show was one of the things that gave JMS the statement "no cute kids or robots" when he decided on Babylon 5. Earlier science fiction has a hard time adapting as much as science-fantasy or fantasy genre's, partly because science changes over time. Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Lensmen, etc., all tend to suffer as changes in technology and culture come to the fore. Heck, even the competition can make existing entiries seem stale and dated--as Star Wars ended up doing to virtually every SF movie when it came out. The Sci-Fi channel recently tried to do a Flash Gordon reboot, and it was not very successful. The point I need to make is, not all franchises can handle a "reboot", nor should all older properties be "re-imagined". Some should just be celebrated as the classics they are. I'd rather see creative energy go into creating new stuff like the next Babylon 5 or Farscape than trying to resurrect once-popular items. [/QUOTE]
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