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Topic: And the Blake's 7 reboot...

... is now going to be a Syfy series.

Sigh.

Naturally, I was going to be leery of any remake. So much of the fun of the original was the chemistry between the actors, and any replacements are going to have a rough time equaling them. But, hey, never know, it could be good... and now it's going to be a first run US Syfy project. Written by some guy from Heroes.

I'll give it a chance. But, really, at this point my only hope is we get a good US DVD release of the original out of this.

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Re: And the Blake's 7 reboot...

I'm kinda optimistic if Martin Campbell is doing the pilot. Wouldn't it be great to have a good, actual sci-fi show on the sci-fi channel again? Battlestar Galactica really is such a bizarro anomaly in their programming quality.

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Re: And the Blake's 7 reboot...

Well, I was skeptical of BSG as an idea, but the first season of that was great. I'd give it a shot, but honestly, why? Why the need to re-boot 70s properties? Are there no original works out there any more?

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Re: And the Blake's 7 reboot...

By using a name people have heard they assume it's easier to market and there is obviously some truth to that as here we are talking about it.

Shame on us  yikes

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Re: And the Blake's 7 reboot...

All-time favourite TV series!
This will be interesting. Guerilla terrorists that go around blowing up government installations. I didn't think the US mindset liked this style of program, particularly since 9/11. The fashion is to portray events from the government/military POV (Star Trek), rather than the "freedom fighters / insurgents".
Perhaps the computer hacker (Avon) can have silver hair in honour of Julian Assange.  tongue

not long to go now...

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Re: And the Blake's 7 reboot...

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Re: And the Blake's 7 reboot...

Maybe at least this version of the show will always have seven people in the rebel team, and one of them will always be called 'Blake'.

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Re: And the Blake's 7 reboot...

So long as they lose, I'll be happy. That was one of the fun parts of the show: this small band of rebels had no chance against the Federation, and let the audience know it.

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Re: And the Blake's 7 reboot...

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