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

AMKC · 20-02-2021 01:28AM #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 03:44PM

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

mcgovern · 25-02-2021 03:37PM

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

Chris_Heilong · 25-02-2021 03:41PM

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 04:20PM

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 06:26PM

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

Str8outtaWuhan · 28-02-2021 06:29PM

Hey Ho lets go!!!!

Reggie. · 28-02-2021 06:30PM

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 06:37PM

“4 have signed”

Str8outtaWuhan · 28-02-2021 07:26PM

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

“4 have signed”

http://chng.it/vzBHpGbcKR

im one of them!!!!

Rodney Bathgate · 01-03-2021 09:53AM

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

Ping Chow Chi · 31-03-2021 02:36PM

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

AMKC · 15-08-2021 04:08PM

Just signed it and shared it.

kowloon · 24-12-2021 04:00PM

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.

24-12-2021 04:05PM

Still only 4 / 100 signatures

"It's DEAD, Jim"

Useless Lump · 19-02-2022 08:01AM

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 · 19-02-2022 10:46AM

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

RidleyReport · 15-03-2026 05:14AM

"Who am I?"

Flinty997 · 15-03-2026 09:18AM

Dragged this thread up from the dead.

I had the boxset on DVD. But there was a disc duplicated so missing a few episodes. I enjoyed it. But it's very dated. I wasn't sure about the be a grunt one week fighter pilot the next. I like the carrier concept but the earth fighters looked bad tbh. Weird mantas looking thing. A decent show. Doesn't seem to have got the cult following of other shows. Redone as CGI might be ok.

kowloon · 20-03-2026 11:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124313721#Comment_124313721

Get Ronald D. Moore on the case when For All Mankind finishes its run. I believe it's two more seasons. I reckon that guy and the clout he has after Battlestar would get the budget and creative freedom to make something worth watching.

breezy1985 · 25-03-2026 12:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124313721#Comment_124313721

"Manta looking"

Wrong fish. The fighters were called Hammerheads.

It definitely has a cult following but the problem is that's all it has. Hardly anyone else remembers it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124328621#Comment_124328621

There is definitely material there to work with but the contemporary feel of Moore's BSG already felt like an updated SAaB in many ways.

I certainly think it has more potential than another Star Gate or a reboot Highlander, X-Files, Quantum Leap which are all out or in the works.

Flinty997 · 25-03-2026 01:51PM

That still looked weird. The one thing you want in a Space ScFi show is a cool fighter.

Potatoeman · 25-03-2026 02:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/116402923#Comment_116402923

Check your top shelf, just above and beyond there.

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

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