If you could reboot any TV show on your own, what would it be?

That actually fits, though. In the first book, Hornblower is older, losing some hair, and fighting a bit of chubbiness. He's supposed to be a bit of a dork. Although "Horatio Hornblower" sounds like a porn title, his character is not supposed to be spank bank material, but a neurotic introvert who finds a way to triumph (at war with himself more than anything else). We don't really find him comfortable in his own skin until the last book in which he's finally done so much winning in life that he concludes, at long last, that he doesn't suck after all.



For eye candy, I'm sure they could always add a few midshipmen and Forester always contrives a way to get a lady or two on board.

It doesn’t sound like a porn title!

The Brady Bunch

Speaking of the X-Men: I'd reboot the franchise to follow the original comics publication - starring the original 5 students (Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast & Iceman). Simultaneously, we'd follow the early lives & origins of the "New X-Men" at various places around the world (Colossus, Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Sunfire & Banshee)... ultimately having the newer characters crossover with the original team and ultimately join them.

I'm curious as to why you would want to reboot The Brady Bunch?

I thought Joan of Arcadia and Tru Calling were really interesting concepts and I enjoyed the shows. Both only lasted 2 seasons. It would be interesting to see a sequel/reboot/remake of those two shows.

I assume you've also seen Wonderfalls?

I don't think I have seen it or if I did, I don't remember it.

Only one season and it's a different tone from either of those shows, but pretty much the same premise as Joan of Arcadia.





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I'm curious as to why you would want to reboot The Brady Bunch?

It would be the original, 1960's sci-fi series The Outer Limits. Having recently bought a DVD set and watching my way through these intelligently written, well acted, noir-like, black and white episodes, I'd love to try a re-boot that worked better than the other attempt. I'd have to hire some good writers and a truck full of black and white film, not to mention good actors, not to mention a sober-voiced omniscient narrator, but it would be worth it.

I imagined it could follow the gimmick of the movies: modern times are as they are, yet the Brady's remain stuck in the middle-class American value-systems of the early 70's.

The movies had them in the 90's (where we look back on any civil unrest or political correctness as the good old days of relative normalcy compared to today), but how would they react to the woke world of 2023?

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I assume you've also seen Wonderfalls?

I think they did that in Eighties.

It was mid-90's to 2002. I saw some of those, and they had better production values. That was the problem for me, OK but disappointing. The old 1960's series had that bleak, noir-like, monochrome film look that seemed to put the show into a really bad dream. Even the poor special effects and "rubber suited monsters" contributed to the out-of-reality look, which required a suspension of disbelief. It's like a scary story told next to a fire in a dark forest.