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Murder She Wrote reboot

Hollywood's problem is that they still don't realize that the only reboots that work are the ones where the public doesn't remember much about the original.* Nobody really remembers what the old Hawaii Five-O was like, so the show had nothing to be compared against. But they remember that Ironside was a stocky stuffy white guy who spent most of his time in courtrooms, not a hot black stud rolling around the streets solving crimes.

Also they remember the movie Ghost, which is why the new show will fail.

AND THEY REMEMBER ANGELA.

(*Trek shows aren't in this group, as they were new shows with new characters that merely borrowed the background history)
 
Indeed...almost AV WORTHY.

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There's also stuff like BSG, where the original was actually kind of crap (I loved it as a kid, and I still think the design and special effects were amazing, but it's completely unwatchable), so a reboot was a welcome, mature use of decent source material.
 
The original three part pilot episode was a lot grimmer than the series that followed (original series), Zac getting killed, Adama and Apollo having a few seconds to get over that before the cylons arrive and kill everyone else they love too. There is civil unrest, miss treatment of prostitutes, and Baltar getting his throat slit when his usefulness had ended.

Sure when the series started Baltar was mysteriously alive again, and there was a robot dog, and most people had completely got over all the billions of people that had died, but the time wasnt right for a relentlessly grim sci fi show, that would be a few years later when Airwolf came along.
 
Ok, not completely unwatchable. I agree, the first few episodes and tv movie version are great, but once it got going they quickly ran out of ideas and resorted to "everyone goes to a human colony and it's the wild west" type stuff. It doesn't have the kind of underlying depth that something like TOS has, that lets you get past any cheesiness or budget issues.
 
At least on DVD we get to watch them in the right order, I remember watching these as a kid and seeing an episode that featured a bunch of prisoners helping Baltar to escape, then a few weeks later we got to see the episode where the same people were taken prisoner in the first place.

Still the original series was like breaking bad compared to galactia 80.
 
Baltar was a traitor, no ambiguity about it at all, he let the cylons destroy the 12 colonies with the promis that he would be ruler of one of them, then he used his knowledge of human behaviour to help them track down the survivors.

At the end of the pilot when the fleet managed to get away the cylons beleived he was no longer useful, and just slit his throat.

http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Baltar_(TOS)
 
I remember being really confused by the throat slitting/beheading when I was little and thinking I'd imagined it. Patrick McNee's role was confusing, too. I think they showed him as an alien at one point, but then he was just a silhouette and voice, and then he showed up playing Satan.
 
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