The Expanse

The show didn’t cover the Laconia story line, and given the time that passes before the final three books, we’re coming up on the perfect time to get the same cast back to do it.

The last few books are, in my view, the most compelling part of an already superb story.

The problem is not « what to reboot » it is How to reboot.

There was this late 90s show called Sliders where this team travels to different parallel Earths with different histories. I would like to see that rebooted.

I did enjoy the recent Scrubs reboot.

Nice try, Hollywood.

Max Headroom could work, IFF they went full-bore with the mockery of media, corporatism-as-government and cynical view of advertising. Though the desolation inside and outside the cities and the plight of 'blanks' might hit too close to home nowadays as it's pretty much a literal reality now.

I'll take the obvious one: We owe it to ourselves to never stop rebooting the 1990s classic SciFi, "Reboot".

Not a particular franchise, but I miss parody movies like Hot Shots or Airplane. Barring one of those being remade, I'd settle for a reboot of Tremors.

There was a Captain Planet parody with Don Cheadle like 15 years ago which was very much like The Boys + Captain Planet. I think that could actually work well now and have a more mature tone of Captain Planet who is like Homelander.

The world needs more Gex.

Space Ghost

I always thought that every 30 years they should reboot back to the future. No connection to the original in terms of production team or cast. The writer and director can’t be old enough to have many memories of the time (Zemeckis and Gale were both 4 in 1955)

Just someone doing their own take on “teenager goes back in time and meets their parents as teenagers”

See how the “past” of 30 years ago compares to the “present” of the previous version

Long term, that could be a really interesting experiment

I feel like Buck Rodgers could get rebooted to today and do well.

I miss black and white. Also I would like to play something like viva piñata.

Mystery Men

Andromeda. Yeah, the Kevin Sorbo show.

The premise is actually great, and the overall plot until Robert Wolfe got pushed out showed a lot of promise. The poisonous factor largely came from Sorbo wanting to intentionally turn the show into campy trash, and TV executives who somehow agreed with him.

Reboot the show, get actors who won't sabotage production, and hire some half decent writers who want to do a Star Trek-like new franchise.

None. People need to move on and create new experiences. Recycling is for garbage.

Nice try, Hollywood.

Space Above and Beyond.

Here's one out of left field- Bucky O'Hare

The franchise has been dormant for about 30 years, and even back then there wasn't that much established lore for a modern reboot to tiptoe around- a comic book that frankly not too many people read, a couple pretty good video games, and a Saturday morning cartoon made to sell toys, and there was little to no continuity between those different properties, you pretty much have free reign to go in and do whatever the hell you want with it.

And there's was some pretty good stuff in there to work with that's maybe even more relevant today than it was when it came out- plotlines about inept bureaucracy, imperialist/capitalist toads controlled by an AI, pollution, climate disruption, slavery, etc.

And the property was kind of hamstrung by its budget and stuff. I definitely enjoyed it as a kid, and when i went back to rewatch it a few years ago as an adult I thought it held up well enough but the animation and voice acting was definitely pretty janky at times, but even still it managed to have some bigger overarching story arcs. It also had a couple strong female characters without getting preachy about it, though there's certainly some room for improvement in how they were written.

And if nothing else, today we can probably count on the furry community to watch a show about a green rabbit space ship captain, a cat space witch, a 4 armed pirate duck, a muscly baboon, and their nerdy human audience surrogate.

The Venture Bros. The world building was massive for a show that started out as a Jonny Quest parody complete with supervillains/heroes, spies, politics between these groups, a deep history spanning over a century and mysterious characters that hinted at a deeper story. They were planning to do an arc using a Magneto analog voiced by Matt Berry and how he was dethroned by David Bowie. The entire series was written by two guys so it's likely the reboot's quality would still be great.

Babylon 5.

All of them.. provided it is well written, well funded, the casting and marketed correctly..

The Rifleman. A good old campy western series about a man and his son. I would love a modern neo-western re-imagining, but with the same father-son lessons on character and human dignity.

I think we should reboot Arthur (PBS)

But, and get this, make it a gritty realist drama about Arthur the Aardvark coming to terms with the death of a loved one

And it would have to be 18+ of course.

And the finale should have an avengers team up of all the classic PBS characters, to beat up Mickey Mouse in a fistfight. No holds barred of course.

Final scene will be Arthur walking away without looking back as all that the series represented is destroyed systematically by reboot after reboot destroying all value from all entertainment and nothing original being made, and then a nuke goes off, and there's a cameo from SUPERMAN, MR ROGERS AND THE GREEN MEANIE

IMO Stargate could use a reboot. I know a new series is in the works, and that this is supposedly a continuation rather than a reboot. But honestly I think I would prefer a clean reboot. I think this for two main reasons - contemporary relevance and power creep.

Stargate was unique in that it was a sci fi setting brought into our world. It's not the enlightened 24th century humans of Star Trek seeking out new civilizations and going where no one has gone before. It's some random US Air Force officers in our world today. People who could be your next door neighbor are visiting space aliens and fighting for the survival of humanity, and you're completely oblivious. And as the series went on, the post-9/11 environment definitely was reflected in the Stargate world as well. So many of its themes explored anxieties of that era.

But now? Too much time has passed. The technology introduced by the events of the show would have percolated out into wider society and had such an impact that the Stargate world and our world don't really resemble our own anymore. Maybe the new series will make it work. But that show was such a thing of its time, I think a complete reimagining would be the best way to bring it into the present.

Second, simple narrative power creep. As the story advances, humanity gathers artifacts and technologies. Now, one very cool difference between Stargate and Star Trek is that Stargate actually remembered its lore. In Star Trek, the ship's doctor or chief engineer will invent a miraculous new technology or medical treatment, inventions that should have massive world-shifting implications...and then be promptly forgotten about. In one episode of TNG they discover a transporter effect that turns adults into children. Yet no one is later seen using transporters as a fountain of youth. In Stargate, the teams discover alien artifacts, meet and make alien allies, vanquish alien foes, etc. The official standing orders of the whole operation are to go through the gate and acquire new technology. And those technologies show up later in the show! Over the course of the show, humanity slowly grows from contemporary humans to a galactic-level power having acquired the complete technological and historical records of two of the most powerful races to have ever existed. They're defeating literal gods at the end of SG1.

It was an amazing journey to go along. Hell, I grew up with that story. It was an epic journey to go down. Yet, it's hard to see where you could credibly go from there. The power levels were already ridiculous at the end.

I would like to see a completely new SG1. In this setting, the Stargate program is started not in 1992, but in 2026. (Hell, you could canonically make it an alternate reality. Inter-reality travel was canonically established. So there would still be a way to do cameos of characters from previous series. Hell, feel free to really shake it up. Who says the aliens they meet out in the stars have to be exactly the same as in the original show? Alternate reality. Alternate history. Alternate aliens. This would allow the show to have a sense of genuine mystery even among those who watched the previous series. And it being an entirely alternate version of the creation of the SGC would allow a story to be told that better reflects our current times.

Imagine the Crimson Skies (game) universe but with a more interesting story.

Sorry if you liked the plot, I loved the game but the story wasn’t particularly memorable for me.

What about Neverwinter Nights? 😁

Teen Titans original would be my go to.

They attempted a reboot that didn't hold the the water because it didn't follow the main storyline, or the main personalities. Honestly the fact they used the original voice actors in it was just a slap to the face to the fanbase.

If they rebooted it properly that could defo take off.

I would love a Motherland: Fort Salem spin-off show either set in the Cession or in some other part of the world that's not the USA. I could always watch another CSI show, but this time the characters from Miami and New York should be the ones making cameos

The neverending story has not lived up to its name

Sometimes I wonder if Austin Powers could make another movie where the main heroine he works with is a trans woman.

Also one of the main henchman is a beefy/huge trans man. And there's a scene where Austin tries to kick the henchman in the balls. And the henchman just smiles and laughs and proceeds to beat up Austin.

I couldn't tell ya how the rest of the movie would go but I thought I'd be interesting to see.

Bring back Megaman Volnutt. With Capcom going through remake frenzy nowadays i'm surprised Megaman Legend didn't get mentioned.

SimCity, probably. Skylines 2 is coming around and is headed in the right direction, but it's been a slow burn.

some cunt probably has a rosie and jim horror ready to go the second the copyright expires

This might be a bit obscure, but I want a TV series in the Interstate 76 universe.

If you want video games, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToeJam_%26_Earl_in_Panic_on_Funkotron was really great and funny.

Jumper, great film, lots of material already written.

How about Max Payne. Those game mechanics have never been copied or revisited. Which is crazy to me.

Spore. I mean, such an ambitious game that was completely hampered by the technology of the time. And never revisited ever again.

Also... Night rider.

maybe SG1, but being only 10 episodes and showrunned by gero doesnt give me high hopes, scifi needs proper 20 episodes to flesh out the characters and develop stories, studios penny pinch way too much that sacrifices the quality of many shows. they really shouldve started in a new galaxy, rather than milky way(which already had ori, goauld as the major enemies for the whole series, and a little wraith), which is done to death. if its re imagined series like with bsg. since they mentioned they want to broaden the "audience", sgu did that and it suffered badly. i assume broadening means something similar to sgu original target audience witht he element of trying to keep up with modern issues?

i dont think trek needs anymore reboots, it needs some hibernation, and let someone other paramount/or someone like kurtzman owning the rights to showrun, what paaramount+ is doing is churning out nutrek slop after slop.

I’m still waiting for Mindhunter, but without Fincher, I don’t know if it will ever be the same.

Sam and Max freelance police, comics or cartoons or games I'm in for whatever. Monkey island and day of the tentacle too from the same era adventure games those were great and the monkey island reboot and late sequel were fun too.

Internet.

In the 90s jn the uk UK on weekend mornings you got classic US TV shows but in black and white (presumably as part of an old licensing agreement).

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, The Invaders, and so on.

Land Of The Giants is the only one of those that hasn't had a similar concept done in more recent years. That I know of.