Ugh, those reboot ideas sound absolutely horrible. I'm not that fond of reboots that try to have their cake and eat it too by having the original text still be diegetic in some way. It's just pandering to fans of the original work that isn't at all respectful of their intelligence, just hoping to placate them by…

Eh, if Spielberg hadn't done it someone else would have, sooner or later. Probably Lucas with Star Wars in '77.

I can't help but imagine Chapman delivering that reply as one of his stuffy upper class authority characters.

@avclub-f7f8eb12e0f61a9321597157c0d61791:disqus @avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus For very recent evidence of Australia's staggeringly callous brand of racism one needs to look no further than this.

If they were to do it they really should do it from the beginning. Also the contrast between I and II-IV is something worth looking at, even briefly.

Really? I thought he was copying the first 10 minutes of the The Stand miniseries.

Actually I was just drunk.

NOOOOO!!!

You know what, after the latter half of BSG Ron Moore doesn't get any benefit of the doubt from me. NO BENEFIT!

Was that really a detail from the original books? Because that seems really fuckin' stupid.

We're through the looking glass here people.

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I find this scenario highly implausible. How does the eagle play the guitar? With it's beak?

also you're history's greatest monster

Eh, seems like kind of an inherently limiting premise in the first place. Unless you like bland bullshit soap opera crap, it's good for that.

@olivececile:disqus It that's true, then that's possibly the most uninteresting ending possible.

So they'll be a fairy-vampire perpetual motion machine!? Yay!

And that hippy junkie chick from season 1 that Jason shacked up with.

@avclub-ffc2c137ac50f2b5c98536d558642273:disqus Err, why do you say that? I don't think writers on this show do any kind of actual research.

SHE'S NOT A PROSTITUTE, SHE'S CAPTAIN BRIDGER'S SCIENCE OFFICER!!