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

AMKC

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

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

mcgovern

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

Chris_Heilong

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

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

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

Str8outtaWuhan

Hey Ho lets go!!!!

Reggie.

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

“4 have signed”

Str8outtaWuhan

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

“4 have signed”

http://chng.it/vzBHpGbcKR

im one of them!!!!

Rodney Bathgate

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

Ping Chow Chi

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

AMKC

Just signed it and shared it.

kowloon

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.

Still only 4 / 100 signatures

"It's DEAD, Jim"

Useless Lump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/116751896#Comment_116751896

It was a Fox show as far as I remember so that would mean a campaign should be directed at Disney.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118370117#Comment_118370117

Yes that was the concept and it was great.

I would love a Star Wars series like Above and Beyond (although more more lighthearted) about fighter pilots, soldiers and a battleship.

they could either be separate series or combine them into one.

Manach

Hopefully, given the phletora of other shows being green-lit, Above and beyond is given a second chance as it was an excellent series.