I once asked what media franchises need to just stop, that have run their time. Now I want to know which ones DID stop, and could be restarted with new content.
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.
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.
What about Neverwinter Nights? 😁
The neverending story has not lived up to its name
Maybe EARTHWORM JIM with new 3D photorealistic graphics.
Haha reminded me of this

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 seem to remember that bttf has some kind of binding agreement or such that someone from the og movies put into place that they can’t/won’t reboot it.
We did get the adventure game from telltale. Which was pretty good. (Did a lot of stuff with the storyline and it had og cast doing voices).
Since 2016, I’ve wanted a Back To The Future remake just to have a scene where Doc Brown disbelieves Donald Trump is president like the original had him disbelieve Ronald Reagan was president
Do we also remake bttf2, so you can see what people think 30 years into the future is like?
Too depressing and a whole other genre.
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.
Internet.
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.
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.
Sounds like the movie Parallels. Doesn’t have the most satisfying ending in the world but I always thought that it would make a good TV show, sounds like it already existed
I would love to see a good reboot of Sliders. That was the show that got me started on the internet. The Scifi channel used to advertise their chatrooms on commercials and I would go to the library to chat with other Scifi channel nerds. Good times.
Lots of early 2000’s Scifi channel shows deserve a reboot
Eureka
Warehouse 13
Dresden Files
Librarian franchise (technically movies, but still)
Legend of Earthsea
Sanctuary
Just so many shows that either didn’t get the budget/attention they deserved, or were killed by the writer’s strike.
That show was so good and then the network started fucking with it and ruined it. It’s almost unbelievable how bad it actually got, it’s comical, like they were trying to ruin a show.
I tried so hard to follow it as a kid. It got so confusing. But I loved it.
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
I’ll take the obvious one: We owe it to ourselves to never stop rebooting the 1990s classic SciFi, “Reboot”.
This might be a bit obscure, but I want a TV series in the Interstate 76 universe.
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.
Isn’t the time skip in the books like 20-30 years? its a while to wait until the actors have aged that much. I’d love to see it though.
Yes, but you certainly don’t need to and wouldn’t want to wait that long. You risk lower interest, retirements, loss of acting ability through death or injury, etc. You can convincingly age adults pretty soon. I think they could start filming now or easily within the next 5 years.
Aging 20-30 years in that future should be portrayed as ~10-15 years of aging in our timeline. People (esp. Inners) are far more long-lived thanks to advanced pharmaceuticals. See the coroner’s bit about life expectancies in S1.











