Same idea with Firefly. How the show was treated and the result was terrible, and it would have been great to have a better start and longer run to get more content. But we got what we got, and you're not going to capture it again. The bright side is it avoided going on too long.

Battlestar Galactica could be a rare example of doing a redo well, although for nostalgic sake I'm still more a fan of the original, even though there's less there content-wise.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Check out "Lost In Space" on Netflix.

It helps to watch a couple of episodes of the 1960s original, because they took the stupidest stuff and reworked it into something really good.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want to say I've watched it, but it must not have left much impression. As for the original, it was that or Star Trek, and one was preferably better lol.

"We can take props from Forbidden Planet and make a sitcom." Just...no.

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 day ago

The first season is much more of a light horror serial. Way more focus on chilling monsters and such.

iirc, Irwin Allen got a lot of complaints about that, so he decided to be rightfully petty and flipped hard the other way into deliberate camp. A bit of spite to the complainers.

Thanks, conservative busybodies.

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