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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 24, 2013 22:58:30 GMT 1
Two of them came to mind when i was screwing round Youtube for some ideas for Final Frontier.
First off, Dinosaucers. Why? Read the title. Again. Again. AGAIN. There.
Next up is Shadow Raiders aka War Planets. Think Battlestar galactica/ Mass Effect for kids. This show made me adore SF. Space battles, awesome characters with great personailty and flaws and great themes such as immigration/dealing with loss/doing wrong things for the greater good.
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Post by Mister Buch on Apr 25, 2013 0:18:48 GMT 1
I never saw Dinosaucers, but I fell in love with its intro sequence a few years ago when I was feeling nostalgic and went looking up all the intros for saturday cartoons. "Ghengis Rex and the evil Tyrannos". Just - YES. Yes to that man. Pulitzer. Just so that kids of the next generation can watch something other than superheroes for a change, I'd like to see Dinosaucers come back, along with Skeleton Warriors and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors ---
The latter of which has an intro sequence featuring what is indisputably the greatest single sentence in the history of English literature: Thundering across the stars to save the universe from the Monster Minds, Jayce searches for his father to unite the magic root and lead his Lightning League to victory over the changing form of Sawboss. Did you even know one sentence was legally allowed that many incredible things inside it?
I can't think of many TV shows I'd bring back except for cartoons and game shows. I really don't like the way game shows work nowadays. In my country at least, ever since Who Wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link came out, every single game show has almost the exact same formula: Intelligent but not too intelligent person enters a high-stress, chrome and dark blue / dark red environment with sharp corners and deep, fast, semi-electronic music, and faces increasingly difficult questions while being asked to make difficult logical and emotional decisions about which questions to answer, and ultimately leaves with either a small amount of cash or nothing at all.
Give me shows which are fun and friendly and you win a car or a holiday, not just a deliberately disappointing amount of cash. What an utterly depressing concept. It's not a 'game' anymore, it's an ordeal which is designed to be failed. Or if you must make the games difficult - make them difficult but worth playing for their own sake. I loved You Bet and The Crystal Maze. I'm not sure if either of those made it outside the UK but they were based on imaginitive sets and a huge variety of strange physical games, memory tests and puzzle scenarios presented at random. They were wonderful. People didn't go into the Crystal Maze to win prizes but to explore the set and attempt those bizarre challenges and riddles while Richard O'Brien played a harmonica in the hallway.
But then again, they brought back Gladiators and it was just rubbish, for some reason. It was a real shame.
But most of all I would sell my soul if they'd just promise to do a new series of Knightmare. When I was young it was my favourite show, and I still have a huge amount of respect for it. It was a game show for children , inspired by D&D when it was new, where a kid with a blindfold had to make his way through a fantasy labyrinth done entirely with blue-screen while his friends and a fantastic dungeon master advised him/her on where to go and what to do. That show was just amazingly inspired and so lovingly made. And when there was an assassin or a monster in the room, or a trap right next to the blindfolded kid's feet, it was incredibly tense. Man, just think of how good this show could be with modern technology, provided the same amount of love and imagination was given to it. Hell I'd write it for free.
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This is a great topic, Gorvar.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Apr 25, 2013 5:16:17 GMT 1
Gilligan's Island.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 25, 2013 10:00:37 GMT 1
Knightmare! Oh god, that show has to come back! Espcially with LOTR and game of thrones swigning the fantasy genre back to life, it has to be done.
I also liked Time Commanders which was a show about several people, co-workers in a office or a family or just friends, who take control of a army back in the Ancient days ( Like Romans, Celts, Ghauls, Carthage) and fight the computer's army. There were two historians there who were experts in that field and gave the audience some context and some tips to the players. I think because of those two i really wanted to become a Historian myself. The best part of the show is that every battle was based on one that actually happend and sometimes if the team was really lucky, they actually managed to beat history. they used the alpha version of Rome Total War for this game show as well which was very interesting.
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Post by Mister Buch on Apr 25, 2013 13:04:10 GMT 1
Man, that sounds cool!
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 25, 2013 13:37:59 GMT 1
Because it is!
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 26, 2013 0:33:34 GMT 1
Gargoyles WITH Keith David reprising his role as Golliah...or maybe Hudson since Keith is older now and is more of a mentor figure now.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 26, 2013 9:43:13 GMT 1
Sliders. See it like Dr Who except we travel to alternative universes every time. Like the intro below says. You could do LOADs with that material!
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Post by jklinders on Apr 26, 2013 10:01:43 GMT 1
Better actors and better written characters and I'm sold
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 26, 2013 11:06:21 GMT 1
I loved Jon Rhys David in this.
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Post by Mister Buch on Apr 26, 2013 11:50:25 GMT 1
Brilliant idea! And I liked all four of them. I'd also like to see Quantum Leap done again.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 26, 2013 12:14:03 GMT 1
I never did see an episode of that show...I onl know Archer is the main character in that one which kinda puts me off.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 29, 2013 12:48:43 GMT 1
Not that old, but still it's Firefly. Given the populairty of this cult show, it can be redone in animation instead of life action and we can still have our old crew back.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Apr 29, 2013 14:09:49 GMT 1
It would be nice, but the moment has passed. And Whedon said he was busy.
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Post by jklinders on Apr 29, 2013 14:57:49 GMT 1
Show might be better off in someone else's hands anyway. I'll give credit to Whedon for the great concept but just how long would it have taken for him to turn the entire crew of the Firefly into a pack of woobies that miserable things just keep happening to for the sake of drama?
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