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Oh, hey, more news on the Blake's 7 reboot...and it sounds terrible.
So, there are now 'details' about the newest Blake's 7 revival.
And any vague interest I had is pretty much gone. Because, seriously, what. (no, really, what. Who thought this sounded like a good idea?)
The year is 2136, Blake wakes up on one side of the bed. He reaches for the other side. There’s nobody there. As reality sets in, this handsome ex-soldier sits up, and looks at a photo of his wife Rachel. Beautiful. Deceased.
...handsome. Seriously? Like, I love Blake as he was, and he was kinda hot. But he wasn't... handsome. This sounds like they'll get some 'popular' hunky dude to come in, which is totally ALL WRONG. Gan needs to be the hunk, goddamn (and speaking of Gan, how come no one remembers HE'S the one with the dead wife? THAT IS WAY MORE GRITTY than this shit)
And can we talk about how Blake's vendetta was TOTALLY personal, especially with Travis around? No dead wives needed, there.
Also, since when is Blake a SOLDIER? wtf.
Also? ffs, Blake's 7 is not Up with laser pistols.
This description is everything that is wrong with science fiction these days. Everything is 'gritty' (because dead wives are way grittier and more personal than brainwashing) and shiny and pretty (because he's handsome and his wife is beautiful. ugh. gag me with a spooneven if Tricia Helfer is his dead wife whom he has halucinations of, ok, that might be entertaining, especially if James Callis is Blake, shut up, I know that's not even remotely possible)
A revolutionary reinvention of the long-running BBC series made in the late 1970s, Blake’s 7 tells the story of seven criminals - 6 guilty and 1 innocent - on their way to life on a prison colony in space, who together wrestle freedom from imprisonment. They acquire an alien ship which gives them a second chance at life and become the most unlikely heroes of their time.
If by 'revolutionary', you mean 'run of the fucking mill'.
And what six criminals? Avon, Gan, Jenna and Vila = four. Cally wasn't a prisoner (though if caught, she would have been, and can we talk about how HER backstory is way grittier than 'dead wife'? HER COMRADES DIED ALL AROUND HER). Zen was certainly not a prisoner, and Orac technically didn't arrive for nearly a whole series.
(also, Blake being accused of being a child molester? Also grittier than a dead wife)
But. But. I think my FAVORITE PART is how they're 'heroes'. THEY ARE NOT HEROES. THEY ARE TERRORISTS. Goddamn. Admit that that is way more fucking gritty than 'heroes' and dead wives, you assholes.
...Joe Pokaski and Martin Campbell have worked tirelessly with the Georgeville TV team to create an amazeballs reboot
What. No. No. I can't even, as the kids say.
And any vague interest I had is pretty much gone. Because, seriously, what. (no, really, what. Who thought this sounded like a good idea?)
The year is 2136, Blake wakes up on one side of the bed. He reaches for the other side. There’s nobody there. As reality sets in, this handsome ex-soldier sits up, and looks at a photo of his wife Rachel. Beautiful. Deceased.
...handsome. Seriously? Like, I love Blake as he was, and he was kinda hot. But he wasn't... handsome. This sounds like they'll get some 'popular' hunky dude to come in, which is totally ALL WRONG. Gan needs to be the hunk, goddamn (and speaking of Gan, how come no one remembers HE'S the one with the dead wife? THAT IS WAY MORE GRITTY than this shit)
And can we talk about how Blake's vendetta was TOTALLY personal, especially with Travis around? No dead wives needed, there.
Also, since when is Blake a SOLDIER? wtf.
Also? ffs, Blake's 7 is not Up with laser pistols.
This description is everything that is wrong with science fiction these days. Everything is 'gritty' (because dead wives are way grittier and more personal than brainwashing) and shiny and pretty (because he's handsome and his wife is beautiful. ugh. gag me with a spoon
A revolutionary reinvention of the long-running BBC series made in the late 1970s, Blake’s 7 tells the story of seven criminals - 6 guilty and 1 innocent - on their way to life on a prison colony in space, who together wrestle freedom from imprisonment. They acquire an alien ship which gives them a second chance at life and become the most unlikely heroes of their time.
If by 'revolutionary', you mean 'run of the fucking mill'.
And what six criminals? Avon, Gan, Jenna and Vila = four. Cally wasn't a prisoner (though if caught, she would have been, and can we talk about how HER backstory is way grittier than 'dead wife'? HER COMRADES DIED ALL AROUND HER). Zen was certainly not a prisoner, and Orac technically didn't arrive for nearly a whole series.
(also, Blake being accused of being a child molester? Also grittier than a dead wife)
But. But. I think my FAVORITE PART is how they're 'heroes'. THEY ARE NOT HEROES. THEY ARE TERRORISTS. Goddamn. Admit that that is way more fucking gritty than 'heroes' and dead wives, you assholes.
...Joe Pokaski and Martin Campbell have worked tirelessly with the Georgeville TV team to create an amazeballs reboot
What. No. No. I can't even, as the kids say.
A deimagined remake of B7
I wish they'd decided to do Avon: A Terrible Aspect instead. At least it would put them to some trouble to make it worse.
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/o\
You're right; this is so very typical and tedious and what do they even think made B7 work in the first place? Or presumably they think it didn't and they can rescue it.
Here's hoping desperately that the pilot fails and then they finally stop with this. If they must make new B7, it could at least have the goodness to be a "30 years later" continuation and not expect us to accept substitutes for some of the best TV characters ever seen.
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However... I felt that way about the Battlestar Galactica reboot, and the reboot was (after a very annoying intro miniseries that made me want to throw things at it) amazing, for the most part. (It also fell apart mid-season 2, and though it got a lot better again before its S4 end, the showrunner had too much Attention Deficit Disorder to quite understand the continuity of his own series.)
So, maybe, this can be made good. But descriptions make it seem like "how badly can they miss the point of the original?"
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Still, who knows? It is, it has to be said, certainly a terrible press release, if nothing else.
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So I have to admit, I'm still not holding my breath, just crossing my fingers that it dies. Again.
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:-(
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i don't even care whether he is or not - obviously i like gareth thomas being handsome in a weird way, but i do understand that this is american television so obviously he's going to be the most handsome guy ever, but you have to specify that he is in a press release? that's the thing that you think is important about blake? the thing you think is worth mentioning as a defining characteristic? couldn't he be driven and charismatic AND (coincidentally) handsome?
the bit that upsets me the most, though, is also something you picked out... there are, like... actually seven of them. and they're all criminals EXCEPT blake (i mean - i'm reading into it, obviously. perhaps they are talking about cally being innocent! and blake being guilty of blowing lots of shit up - but obviously not of pedophilia.) i mean... maybe it's a mistake and the press release was drafted by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. or maybe they're drafting... er, no, dayna and tarrant and soolin weren't criminals either. i don't know. maybe arco trent will be drafted in. and then die in episode 2.
boooo.
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Except, ye gads I'm sick of the dead wife trope. So, so very sick of that. It's disappointing. I know why they do it, they get instant cheap angst for their lead male while keeping him available for a new love interest. But it is the very cheapest form of fridging, and it may well be a deal killer for me. (Though probably not. At least not to start. Because space opera.)
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(I keep getting worried about the inevitable BSG remake in 20-30 years because of things like this...)
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They are making it for an American audience instead of a British one and that's the kiss of death right there.