Not necessarily a reimagining, but a premise. A concept.
Heroes had so much going for it before the writers strike, the premise of that show felt so good then it just got bad.
Altered Carbon.
Season 1 was GREAT. Season 2 wasnt.
They fucked up the most important thing possible with a series changing actors for the same character. YOU NEED TO MAKE US LOVE THE CHARACTER NOT THE ACTOR. They didnt lay in a bunch of physical gestures, catchphrases, signature moves, character traits. Nothing that made be believe Anthony Mackie was the same guy as Joel Kinnaman.
Altered Carbon had trouble keeping their premise straight too. When anyone can swap their body, you can’t recognize people by sight any more. They used this to the MC’s advantage a few times, but you’d think that people in that society would be more aware of the possibility.
Like they had the subplot with the MC’s sister(?) where he spills all his secrets to the person in his sister’s body. I’m sure he really needed someone to trust, but at least verify someone’s identity before you share life-or-death information!
Oh definitely, there were flaws. The absolute disbelief that Mackie was Kovacs was what made S2 almost unwatchable.
Halo.
Just make it animated, and don’t add anything.
It’s almost impressive how bad they fucked this up…
Is it too early to say Wheel of Time?
Is Wheel of Time even viable to be adapted into a TV series? Isn’t it just flatout far too long realistically.
Unless there are budget constrain, why not? You can always make longer seasons.
I do realize that 14 seasons x 20 episodes seems unrealistic and will probably be cancelled, though.Eh, you could condense books 7-9 into a single season imo
Unless there are budget constrain, why not? You can always make longer seasons.
I do realize that 14 seasons x 20 episodes seems unrealistic and will probably be cancelled, though.
Yeah, that’s what I mean. Amazon has the money to throw at it. But many actors would not stick around for that length of time.
Dead Like Me And the Dark Crystal show needed the ending it deserved.
Swamp Thing was so much worse than it could have been. Gothic horror, beauty and the beast, cosmic terror, body horror, monster of the week serial but it’s a bigger monster hunting monsters, etc it’s got all these interesting angles and they ended up focusing on none of them.
Once Upon A Time, Van Helsing (the Syfy tv show), Supernatural (specially the heaven lore), and Yellowjackets
Once Upon a Time had a great concept. The execution often was so so but the concept very neat.
They should have gone through the first season fully fantastic without ever acknowledge if Henry was right or simply crazy and started to reveal the fantasy part only for the season 2. They should also have made the family less tangled and never ever pretended dead people could ever (ever) be revived. Finally they should have somehow either improve Emma’s character or glorifying her way less.
LA Brea.
Great premise ruined by bad writing full of plot holes and somehow worse acting. But man, the concept could go so far.
The original plan for the second season of Stranger Things was supposed to be a separate story with a few connections to the first season, each season being a different story and cast. I would have loved to see that actually happen, since the second season lost my interest a couple episodes in.
Heroes, too. Same deal.
I’d kind of like to see someone do Brave New World a bit better. It was done in the 60s(?) but it’s just a bit out of date today, while the book is absolutely something the world needs to think about now. A modern version might actually be even enhanced by certain elements of the modern style.
There was a modern attempt by Peacock in 2020. It got cancelled.
Quite disappointing.
The adaptations quality, or that it got cancelled?
I haven’t seen it. It’s disappointing that it was cancelled.
I would love to watch something like The Walking Dead, but more chill. More to do with building a community, and re-imagining society. Surviving the zombies would be a topic, of course, but without all the extra evilness of the remaining humans.
And episodes that don’t force me to increase my TV’s brightness to the max.
Modern Family with Zombies
Santa Clarita Diet?
You know, I’ve never really fucked with that show. I watched it a couple times n it’s just fine-ish. Idk why tho, it should be up my wheelhouse but it doesn’t do it for me.
You know what, I already did one but I’m gonna do another one: Lovecraft Country.
First episode did just about everything you’d want out of a Jim Crow-era supernatural horror road trip mystery. Felt like they really had a handle on the whole “fear of the unknown and incomprehensible” vibe that you don’t see done well very often, the cast had great chemistry, and the whole theme of “the real incomprehensible eldritch abomination threatening human sanity is racism” was executed flawlessly. They walked a very fine tightrope between homage and condemnation of Lovecraft’s whole… deal and nailed it in one.
And then the main mystery is resolved by the second episode and the whole thing devolves into a very uneven anthology of psychic snakes and angry ghosts and like, Nazi wizards worshipping what I think was just the regular devil and overall very known and comprehensible horrors that didn’t really hold my attention for long enough to see if they even tried to tie them all together.
Man, all I wanted was a long-form cosmic horror story wrapped in a character-driven prestige TV period drama with some biting social commentary that doesn’t suck. They don’t make a lot of those!
You might like Watchmen. The TV show on HBO not the movie. It’s actually a sequel to the original run of comics and original ending.
Star Trek Voyager. I don’t think I need to explain further, we all have the same ideas.
Looks like the upcoming game will do the fixing though, so that’s good.
Sword art online. Drop the rape and incest beats entirely. It had potential to be a great anime about the meaning of life and instead largely ignored that possibility.
I have that show on my watchlist so thanks for the warning about themes.
My recommendation for SAO is watch the first season and pretend like the rest doesn’t exist.
Mine is legitimately just watch SAO abridged. It reworks story beats for a smoother story in addition to adding gags
Better character writing too.
Is that rework anything like full metal alchemist Vs. FMA brotherhood? Like starts the same but then goes somewhere else?
I already have a copy of the whole SAO so I’ll probably still watch it (I’ve watched some pretty questionable stuff all the way through just because I started it…) but if it’s genuinely worth watching both, even if just for the sake of comparison, I’ll try to find a copy.
SAO abridged is a fan parody that you can find on YouTube, but as said before me, it has a way better storyline than the original and the production quality is incredible for a fan project.
The only downside is that the team can make approximately one episode per year.
Brotherhood is an official anime. SAO abridged is a fan made parody on YouTube. it recuts and redubs but that’s it. And its purpose isn’t to tell the whole SAO story, it’s to make gags. It just inadvertently made a better story than SAO itself, mostly by changing certain characters motivations
Edit: oh and if you’re intent on watching the full version at all, watch it before the abridged
None of the cringe happens until the end of the first season.
I want a faithful adaptation of Asimov’s Foundation, where it’s the 1940s in space like in the novels.
Guy gets to planet, immediately buys a physical newspaper with physical cash. Takes a taxi cab. Everyone smokes constantly. Space soldiers are bribed with dishwashers and fridges, computers barely exist. Every desk has an integrated atomic ashtray to vaporise cigarette butts. Scientists carry bulky pocket calculators.
I’d love a proper retro-futuristic TV series. The latest Fantastic Four film showed that people will swallow a retro-futuristic vibe. Just something unironic with rayguns.
