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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2018 13:23:21 GMT
You need to watch Red Dwarf. It's a BBC space comedy, which means a)it's smegging brilliant and b) even though it's been on for 30 years/12 seasons(series) they've only made about 73 episodes. You also need to watch Doctor Who. And Star Trek Deep Space Nine. And Quantum Leap. And Sliders I will check those other shows out sometime stargazer but I have actually already seen 'Quantum Leap' and 'Sliders' and I watched 'Sliders' here when it used to air on Channel 10 and own all the seasons of 'Quantum Leap' on DVD and have watched that show a few times. They have been saying for years they were going to bring 'Quantum Leap' back for a limited series or a movie with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell but I sadly don't think it is going to ever happen and it is more likely we will see a remake with new actors especially with all the shows they are bringing back now. Did you watch 'Early Edition?' It was about a guy who got a newspaper every day that actually t he newspaper for the next day and he would try to stop bad events from happening and save people from dying.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2018 13:30:30 GMT
Have you heard about Jennifer's latest movie, 'Peppermint?' It is said to be her return to Action and I am looking forward to it and I heard she did all her own stunts for it like she did for 'Alias' and hope she does more Action roles again after it 'cause I think she is best at that genre. I would still love to see 'Alias' come back though as a movie or TV show and I have even heard Bradley Cooper would be willing to come back 'cause he liked the show so much and he is a big star now and I never thought the actor who played Will would have gone on to become more famous than Vaughn and back when 'Alias' was on a lot of my friends thought Michael Vartan would go on to be the big star but I haven't seen him in anything for ages now. I saw Peppermint last weekend. It's pretty good, not great. Jennifer is really good in it and I hope she does more action stuff too. Didn't Cooper'e character die in Alias? It's been so long I can't remember. Yeah. He did but from what I have read if it ever gets made they are most likely going to bring Victor Garber and Ron Rifkin back too so they will probably find a way to bring him back to life or say his death was staged. With Sloane it isn't hard to bring him back even though he was buried underground 'cause the Rambaldi device made him invincible but I am not sure about Jack since he blew himself up to keep Sloane underground and should be scattered into little pieces but perhaps there is another Rambaladi device somebody like Sark uses that changes the past and brings back a number of dead characters.
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Post by stargazer1682 on Oct 2, 2018 14:38:12 GMT
You need to watch Red Dwarf. It's a BBC space comedy, which means a)it's smegging brilliant and b) even though it's been on for 30 years/12 seasons(series) they've only made about 73 episodes. You also need to watch Doctor Who. And Star Trek Deep Space Nine. And Quantum Leap. And Sliders I will check those other shows out sometime stargazer but I have actually already seen 'Quantum Leap' and 'Sliders' and I watched 'Sliders' here when it used to air on Channel 10 and own all the seasons of 'Quantum Leap' on DVD and have watched that show a few times. They have been saying for years they were going to bring 'Quantum Leap' back for a limited series or a movie with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell but I sadly don't think it is going to ever happen and it is more likely we will see a remake with new actors especially with all the shows they are bringing back now. Did you watch 'Early Edition?' It was about a guy who got a newspaper every day that actually t he newspaper for the next day and he would try to stop bad events from happening and save people from dying. I did watch Early Edition. It's kind of funny seeing the guy who played the lead in that in other things now, because I think he's gained greater notoriety from things like his role on Friday Night Lights and other stuff he's done since (and he doesn't look like he's aged at all...), but I'll always remember him as the guy from Early Edition. Love Quantum Leap. I've heard the same rumors to, which if memory serves go all the back to around the time it was originally cancelled, that they were going to do a TV movie to revisit or properly wrap up the series; and then every so often there's accounts about how some new reboot series is about to be produced at any minute and it never happens. I've sort of made my peace with it. I think it would be hard to do again and have it work as well as it did. For one thing, it'd be too tempting to do some of the more outlandish time travel tropes that even the original series couldn't avoid, like interacting with famous people and potentially radically altering history (like Legends or Timeless did). There was also something uniquely effective that they accidentally achieved by making a white male the main protagonist - someone who would conventionally and historically be a person of social privilege - and putting him into personas and situations that were at historical odds with that privilege, just by virtue of that other person's race or gender; underscore a double standard just by seeing how differently he's treated when other characters think he's someone else - a woman or person of color, or developmentally challenged. You could still do Quantum Leap with a female protagonist, or a lead of a different nationality, but the dynamic would be different.
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Post by stargazer1682 on Oct 2, 2018 14:58:17 GMT
On the other hand, Sliders could be a good candidate for a reboot or remake. I don't often see the original four in much - although I swear, Jerry O'Connell used to be a better actor during the early days of Sliders, but what little I've seen him in more recently, you'd never know it... I do have some mixed feelings about a remake or even a reboot with the original actors; in that I do think the original end was sort of unintentionally perfect, at least from a certain perspective. I've come to appreciate Sliders as being something of a modern day tragedy and the type of story most writers wouldn't set out to write these days; especially for television. I mean, consider the premise; four character get lost traveling between dimension, trying desperately to find their way home. Who would expect when that show starts that two of those characters would die horrible deaths, a third suffer a fate just as bad as death and the fourth may have potentially died as well? One would assume that in spite of the odds being stacked against them, and the weekly dangers they would face, because it's television they would always find some way to escape just in the nick of time, they would all remain safe and upon the series conclusion would find their way home. That's just how tv works. Yet because of backstage drama, that's not what ended up happen; and what did happen instead is more in the vein of what you might expect to be more likely in such a situation if it were real life. The nature of the story would make it pretty easy, having it be that those who died were doubles, or some other way to cheat their fates; and that the homeworld overrun by Kromags wasn't really their homeworld after all, but the way it ended, without closure or happy ending, was still sort of perfect. Even not knowing Remmy's fate kind of works. But that still leaves you with DS9 and Doctor Who to watch.
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Post by General Kenobi on Oct 2, 2018 15:25:30 GMT
Never saw Jerry O'Connell in anything other then Stand By Me. What is he up to these days?
Yeah, I could Google it but I don't care enough to do that.
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Post by stargazer1682 on Oct 2, 2018 15:48:24 GMT
Never saw Jerry O'Connell in anything other then Stand By Me. What is he up to these days? Yeah, I could Google it but I don't care enough to do that. Pretty much being married to Rebecca Romijn
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Post by General Kenobi on Oct 2, 2018 15:58:50 GMT
That lucky bastard.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 10:42:56 GMT
I will check those other shows out sometime stargazer but I have actually already seen 'Quantum Leap' and 'Sliders' and I watched 'Sliders' here when it used to air on Channel 10 and own all the seasons of 'Quantum Leap' on DVD and have watched that show a few times. They have been saying for years they were going to bring 'Quantum Leap' back for a limited series or a movie with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell but I sadly don't think it is going to ever happen and it is more likely we will see a remake with new actors especially with all the shows they are bringing back now. Did you watch 'Early Edition?' It was about a guy who got a newspaper every day that actually t he newspaper for the next day and he would try to stop bad events from happening and save people from dying. I did watch Early Edition. It's kind of funny seeing the guy who played the lead in that in other things now, because I think he's gained greater notoriety from things like his role on Friday Night Lights and other stuff he's done since (and he doesn't look like he's aged at all...), but I'll always remember him as the guy from Early Edition. Love Quantum Leap. I've heard the same rumors to, which if memory serves go all the back to around the time it was originally cancelled, that they were going to do a TV movie to revisit or properly wrap up the series; and then every so often there's accounts about how some new reboot series is about to be produced at any minute and it never happens. I've sort of made my peace with it. I think it would be hard to do again and have it work as well as it did. For one thing, it'd be too tempting to do some of the more outlandish time travel tropes that even the original series couldn't avoid, like interacting with famous people and potentially radically altering history (like Legends or Timeless did). There was also something uniquely effective that they accidentally achieved by making a white male the main protagonist - someone who would conventionally and historically be a person of social privilege - and putting him into personas and situations that were at historical odds with that privilege, just by virtue of that other person's race or gender; underscore a double standard just by seeing how differently he's treated when other characters think he's someone else - a woman or person of color, or developmentally challenged. You could still do Quantum Leap with a female protagonist, or a lead of a different nationality, but the dynamic would be different. Oh. I didn’t know he was in ‘Friday Night Lights.’ I have seen him in some other things like ‘Carol’ and ‘Super 8’ but I never saw him in ‘Friday Night Lights’ and we used to watch that show when it was on the Lifestyle Channel and we liked the Christmas episodes the most where they went around to all of the houses with the best Christmas lights and decorations on them. I think I will always see the actor as the guy from ‘Early Edition’ just like I remember Jerry O’Connell for ‘Sliders’ and ‘Crossing Jordan’, Jessica Alba as Max in ‘Dark Angel’, Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars, David Boreanaz as Angel, Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow and Bradley Cooper as Will Tippin in ‘Alias’ and Jessica Alba arguably went on to become a bigger star after ‘Dark Angel’ but most people I know still see Max as her best and most memorable role which is why it is a shame it ended so early.
I think you are probably right about ‘Quantum Leap’ and as much as I would like to see it return they have had a long time to do it and if it was going to come back again I think it would have returned by now as a movie or a TV show especially after they brought back shows like ‘Dallas’, ‘Full House’, ‘Will & Grace’ and ‘Murphy Brown’ but you might be interested in knowing the creator, Donald Bellissario said late last year he has finished writing a script for a ‘Quantum Leap’ movie and whether this goes through or not remains to be seen but one thing appears to be certain is Scott and Dean won’t be in it this time and it will have new actors in the roles of Sam and Al which is bound to disappoint fans of the original series who thought they were teasing a reunion when Dean was in ‘NCIS: New Orleans.’
You make some good points about how it would be hard to make now but if the remake goes through I will give it a chance and if 'Magnum PI' can come back which is something I doubt we would have seen 'cause the show is so tied to the 80s it is possible 'Quantum Leap' can do the same thing. Have you seen the new 'Magnum' by the way?
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Post by stargazer1682 on Oct 19, 2018 14:49:59 GMT
I have not seen the new Magnum, but I never really watched the original either.
I remember reading or hear an interview with Scott Bakula pointing out how he is now the same age Dean Stockwell was when they were doing Quantum Leap; and that was easily a few years ago. He's obviously still active and in good health, but he's no spring chicken anymore; and of course is busy with his NCSI series. I do have to say that one thing I've had a harder time reconciling with Quantum Leap now is the nature of these people being plucked from time and a stranger living their life for them, for some brief period; however altruistic it's intended. They didn't give a great deal of thought or focus on the flip side of what was happen; where back at Project Quantum Leap, there were these scared individuals trapped in a strange, glowing, blue room for days at a time, with gaps in their memory and wondering if or when they could ever go home. I mean, it'd be easy enough, of course, to come up with some McGuffin or something; and say that the way Sam designed the technology follows the path of least resistance, whereby a leaper only repalces someone with their conscious or unconscious consent, however that might work; and Lothos and his "evil" leapers could be contrast as taking an opposing tact, whereby they do use more forceful means of replacing someone. But it's still a weird conceit of the series; and at least they had the decency of avoiding Sam getting too physically involved with most people who didn't know who he really was. The Sammy-Jo Fuller thing is a little questionable though....
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Post by General Kenobi on Oct 20, 2018 13:34:51 GMT
Watch now as we get the gritty reboot of Quantum Leap because.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2018 10:58:23 GMT
I have not seen the new Magnum, but I never really watched the original either. I remember reading or hear an interview with Scott Bakula pointing out how he is now the same age Dean Stockwell was when they were doing Quantum Leap; and that was easily a few years ago. He's obviously still active and in good health, but he's no spring chicken anymore; and of course is busy with his NCSI series. I do have to say that one thing I've had a harder time reconciling with Quantum Leap now is the nature of these people being plucked from time and a stranger living their life for them, for some brief period; however altruistic it's intended. They didn't give a great deal of thought or focus on the flip side of what was happen; where back at Project Quantum Leap, there were these scared individuals trapped in a strange, glowing, blue room for days at a time, with gaps in their memory and wondering if or when they could ever go home. I mean, it'd be easy enough, of course, to come up with some McGuffin or something; and say that the way Sam designed the technology follows the path of least resistance, whereby a leaper only repalces someone with their conscious or unconscious consent, however that might work; and Lothos and his "evil" leapers could be contrast as taking an opposing tact, whereby they do use more forceful means of replacing someone. But it's still a weird conceit of the series; and at least they had the decency of avoiding Sam getting too physically involved with most people who didn't know who he really was. The Sammy-Jo Fuller thing is a little questionable though.... I don’t think the new ‘Magnum’ has aired here in Australia yet and if it has I have missed it but I think they should have made it a sequel to the original series and had Tom Selleck appear in an episode or two and have his son or daughter take over the lead role instead of making it another remake ‘cause from what I have heard the new guy not only doesn’t look like Tom Selleck but his personality is very different than the original Thomas Magnum too and I honestly don’t get the point of bringing old TV shows back like ‘Magnum PI’ if they are going to completely change the characters ‘cause they won’t be the same then but that will most likely be the case if they bring ‘Quantum Leap’ back and it will probably be more grittier like General Kenobi mentioned or more like the ‘Hawaii Five O’ remake.
It is a shame we will never get to see another movie or show with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell but I would like to see the unreleased 'Battlestar Galactica' movie with Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict that was filmed in the 90s and if they can release 'Night of the Living Dead 2' now that was filmed back in the 70s they should be able to release that.
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Post by General Kenobi on Nov 10, 2018 16:31:14 GMT
Depends on who owns it and what they want. They might want more money then anyone is willing to fork over.
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Post by dazz on Nov 10, 2018 22:52:39 GMT
I have not seen the new Magnum, but I never really watched the original either. I remember reading or hear an interview with Scott Bakula pointing out how he is now the same age Dean Stockwell was when they were doing Quantum Leap; and that was easily a few years ago. He's obviously still active and in good health, but he's no spring chicken anymore; and of course is busy with his NCSI series. I do have to say that one thing I've had a harder time reconciling with Quantum Leap now is the nature of these people being plucked from time and a stranger living their life for them, for some brief period; however altruistic it's intended. They didn't give a great deal of thought or focus on the flip side of what was happen; where back at Project Quantum Leap, there were these scared individuals trapped in a strange, glowing, blue room for days at a time, with gaps in their memory and wondering if or when they could ever go home. I mean, it'd be easy enough, of course, to come up with some McGuffin or something; and say that the way Sam designed the technology follows the path of least resistance, whereby a leaper only repalces someone with their conscious or unconscious consent, however that might work; and Lothos and his "evil" leapers could be contrast as taking an opposing tact, whereby they do use more forceful means of replacing someone. But it's still a weird conceit of the series; and at least they had the decency of avoiding Sam getting too physically involved with most people who didn't know who he really was. The Sammy-Jo Fuller thing is a little questionable though.... I don’t think the new ‘Magnum’ has aired here in Australia yet and if it has I have missed it but I think they should have made it a sequel to the original series and had Tom Selleck appear in an episode or two and have his son or daughter take over the lead role instead of making it another remake ‘cause from what I have heard the new guy not only doesn’t look like Tom Selleck but his personality is very different than the original Thomas Magnum too and I honestly don’t get the point of bringing old TV shows back like ‘Magnum PI’ if they are going to completely change the characters ‘cause they won’t be the same then but that will most likely be the case if they bring ‘Quantum Leap’ back and it will probably be more grittier like General Kenobi mentioned or more like the ‘Hawaii Five O’ remake.
It is a shame we will never get to see another movie or show with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell but I would like to see the unreleased 'Battlestar Galactica' movie with Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict that was filmed in the 90s and if they can release 'Night of the Living Dead 2' now that was filmed back in the 70s they should be able to release that.
What movies are you one about Deb? As only Battle star thing I know about is The Second Coming which was a filmed 30 min pilot for an intended new series but it didn't feature Benedict, also I think the Living Dead 2 thing isn't a film they are releasing but a film they are making based off of a script from back then but I maybe wrong but that's all I saw when I searched for Night Of The Living Dead 2.
Dunno if im just missing stuff though, Battlestar I think would best be used as an extra on like a big Battlestar box set as I cannot see enough people caring about it otherwise.
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