Two great seasons followed by completely disappearing up their asses and cheapening everything that had come before by association.
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I disagree. I think the show was always mid but Martin and Cumberbatch carried it. Moffat writing sucks
They did a great job at first but then they very quickly fell victim to self-awareness and alternately pandering to and actively fighting against their fans. I still love the show, but by the time they got to the sister with mutant telepathic powers, they kind of lost me. Might have been better if they'd written the show as having literal superpowers from the beginning.
That entire 4th season was just a WTF.
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If you like Sherlock, try the BBC's version with Jeremy Brett. They did all the original stories with a high budget.
"A Scandal In Bohemia" https://youtu.be/ZaDfTP7zohQ
For something noncanon, "The 7% Solution."
Sherlock's cocaine problem is out of control and only Doctors Freud and Watson can save him.
Jeremy Brett is my favorite Sherlock. It's like David Suchet and Poirot, he just nails it.
Try the movie. Robert Duval as Watson is an unexpected treat.
Same idea with Firefly. How the show was treated and the result was terrible, and it would have been great to have a better start and longer run to get more content. But we got what we got, and you're not going to capture it again. The bright side is it avoided going on too long.
Battlestar Galactica could be a rare example of doing a redo well, although for nostalgic sake I'm still more a fan of the original, even though there's less there content-wise.
bsg is pretty bad example, because the showrunner dint like the original series, so he dint like the "trek-ness" of the og series so he implemented his own, messianic christian themed show, many people dint like the fact that this happened.
Check out "Lost In Space" on Netflix.
It helps to watch a couple of episodes of the 1960s original, because they took the stupidest stuff and reworked it into something really good.
I want to say I've watched it, but it must not have left much impression. As for the original, it was that or Star Trek, and one was preferably better lol.
"We can take props from Forbidden Planet and make a sitcom." Just...no.
The first season is much more of a light horror serial. Way more focus on chilling monsters and such.
iirc, Irwin Allen got a lot of complaints about that, so he decided to be rightfully petty and flipped hard the other way into deliberate camp. A bit of spite to the complainers.
Thanks, conservative busybodies.
BSG is kind of a bad example when the first half of the fourth season was so bad because of the writer's strike.
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They love bringing shows back for a Christmas episode of a red nose day thing decades later