Who would love to see "Space: Above and Beyond" redone"?

AMKC · 20-02-2021 1:28am #1

https://www.change.org/p/1000-who-loved-the-scifi-space-above-and-beyond-let-s-start-a-petition-for-it-to-be-redone/share_for_starters?just_created=true&tag_selected=other_topic

Sign it and let's do this.

This show deserves a second chance.

Jaden · 22-02-2021 3:44pm

Getting this to 100 signatures should be as easy as eating pancakes.

mcgovern · 25-02-2021 3:37pm

Have it on DVD somewhere but can't sign the petition
"There was an error submitting your signature."

Chris_Heilong · 25-02-2021 3:41pm

I used to love that series but productions these days tend to be excuses for agenda driven activism instead of good stories, If they could do it right and keep the same world but with modern sfx then I would be all for it.

Black Sheep · 25-02-2021 4:20pm

I was just thinking about this series the other day. So many incredible episodes...

It wasn't a perfect show, there were some story arcs that seemed to come from nowhere, and at times it just felt a bit directionless, but then you had episodes like "Ray Butts" (season 1, episode 5). I think that was the piece of TV that introduced me to Johnny Cash music! I had to dig out my dad's records after that.

In terms of what a contemporary take on the show might be like today...

I'm not sure it needs that radical an update in terms of casting, it was really diverse for back in the day, I don't think you'd need to tinker with much. I wouldn't be surprised if Shane was made male and Coop was made female, but that's just moving the chairs around really.

The story setting in the show is reminiscent of Robert Heinlein but moreso Joe Haldeman, whose 'The Forever War' was heavily influenced by Vietnam and was a little morally ambiguous.

If I remember rightly, there is a point in Space Above and Beyond where the Chig attacks on the human colony that kicked off the whole war are revealed not to be the 'out of the blue' act of aggression they were thought to be. I am hazy but I think the idea was that maybe the humans fired the first shot.

I could easily imagine a contemporary plot where it's all jingoistic heroism until a big reveal at the end of season 1 that reveals it's all a bit suss.

AbusesToilets · 28-02-2021 6:26pm

Loved this series back in the day, fantastic theme for the intro.

Str8outtaWuhan · 28-02-2021 6:29pm

Hey Ho lets go!!!!

Reggie. · 28-02-2021 6:30pm

Black Sheep wrote: »

I was just thinking about this series the other day. So many incredible episodes...

It wasn't a perfect show, there were some story arcs that seemed to come from nowhere, and at times it just felt a bit directionless, but then you had episodes like "Ray Butts" (season 1, episode 5). I think that was the piece of TV that introduced me to Johnny Cash music! I had to dig out my dad's records after that.

In terms of what a contemporary take on the show might be like today...

I'm not sure it needs that radical an update in terms of casting, it was really diverse for back in the day, I don't think you'd need to tinker with much. I wouldn't be surprised if Shane was made male and Coop was made female, but that's just moving the chairs around really.

The story setting in the show is reminiscent of Robert Heinlein but moreso Joe Haldeman, whose 'The Forever War' was heavily influenced by Vietnam and was a little morally ambiguous.

If I remember rightly, there is a point in Space Above and Beyond where the Chig attacks on the human colony that kicked off the whole war are revealed not to be the 'out of the blue' act of aggression they were thought to be. I am hazy but I think the idea was that maybe the humans fired the first shot.

I could easily imagine a contemporary plot where it's all jingoistic heroism until a big reveal at the end of season 1 that reveals it's all a bit suss.

It was where the colony company was warned not to send the ship by the chiqs as it was a chiq planet but was revealed in the end of the series that they blatantly ignored the warnings and send the ship anyways.

Hence which started the war

Rodney Bathgate · 28-02-2021 6:37pm

“4 have signed”

Str8outtaWuhan · 28-02-2021 7:26pm

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

“4 have signed”

http://chng.it/vzBHpGbcKR

im one of them!!!!

Rodney Bathgate · 01-03-2021 9:53am

Still 4. Will that be enough to make it happen I wonder?

Ping Chow Chi · 31-03-2021 2:36pm

This was a great series back in the day, I wonder if a streaming service would do something with it.

AMKC · 15-08-2021 4:08pm

Just signed it and shared it.

kowloon · 24-12-2021 4:00pm

Space: Above and Beyond was the Pacific War in space, from the Pearl Harbor surprise attack to the space carriers, planet-hopping campaign and "amphibious" assaults. They don't really have to change that basic premise.