Rise from your grave....

Ah. The best part of Hollywood is that it is unusually devoid of creativity. Time and time again there are remakes of movies or retreads of television shows. This could be a retelling like Battlestar Galatica (which wasn't that bad in my opinion) or revivals like outer limits and twilight zone in the nineties and eighties respectively. I asked a question wondering as to what shows one would like to see come back. Three of the four responses were what I expected to hear from said individuals. First off I will start with voltron. Some kids use lions to combine into a robot that kills giant aliens in one hit (though never does until much later in any given battle). The plot has a few extra bits included but that is voltron to a tee. Would this work? Could this work? I will leave this one alone cause it's due to become a movie in the next few years. When this happens I will be here to pass judgment on it. Next up The monkees. Four guys run around and get into crazy hijinks and mishaps and they sing (and play their own instruments...look it up...well not all the time but they did). This was kind of like hard day’s night but the music didn't suck (and thus is my first but not last Beatles slam) and was a hit with the young kids and teens. The show would eventually go off the air and after a crazy movie "head" and some other projects the show would go away for a while until finding some new interest around 86 or so. Could this show be made today? Well two frames of thought. With the original cast...maybe but prolly not. They aren't the same guys they were as young men; and this certainly is part of the show. Also it seems that they don't all have a great relationship with each other so "getting the band back together" would more than likely fail. Could that show be made today and be a success. Yes it could. Though the industry would more than likely have some dumb "who wants to be a monkee" type reality show idea. The original premise would work if done correctly. A show that can't take itself seriously but would need to cater to the new generation is what they would need to go with. With the media exposure right now could help or hurt such an endeavor. Next up is firefly. Similar to Cowboy Bebop but a bit more serious in its execution (but still with a bit of humor); it tells the story of people on a space ship in the future. There is more to it than that but that is the basic premise. Now it hasn't been off the air long so a remake isn't feasible to this point but bringing it back could work. There is a whole lot of interest by fans in the series and there was a movie "Serenity" made that continued the plot. The real thing is the network. Would they bring it back? Well no not really. Even with a lot of interest and fan devotion they seem to only bring back series that were canceled and created by Seth McFarlane. Should they? Yes and if I take over the world anytime soon they will. Lastly is Passions. Admit ably I know little about this show other than the fact that it is a soap with some supernatural (and a midget) elements to it. I am unsure as to why it was canceled but if you think about it does it sound like something you have heard before? Dark shadows? Well maybe... Since twilight has seemed to take off in popularity (thus making me change the name of this blog as the word twilight was in it) I would think this the time to bring back such a show. Hell soaps are boring anyways but adding some more fictional elements can really bring in the audience that is bored with the same old same old. Course the entertainment industry seems to not take chances much anymore so that will not likely happen. My choice is "Nowhere man". One of Upn's first dramas it starred Bruce Greenwood (captain pike in the new star trek movie) as a photojournalist who over the course of a trip to the bathroom has his entire life erased. He spends the entire of the one season that makes up the series trying to find out who did it and why. It concerns a photo of condemned men being executed by US soldiers and only his negatives of the photo may prove whatever plot that everyone else is in on. This show was creepy. I would love to see a series that continues the plot or gives a new one in the same continuity. Course what I want seems to always be irrelevant. Why? Because they can...