I am SO OVER anti-rebooters giving me shit on facebook
i just want more xena.
You cool,don’t let em keep you down
I want Xena to be like Superman: a franchise so embedded in the dna of pop culture that everyone knows the basics of “former warlord seeking redemption traveling with her plucky bard lover,” with endless reimaginings, I want it to live beyond just being one cult show from the 90s, I want it to be like, Sherlock Holmes persistent, with new versions for every new generation of young lady gays, ugh, I want it baaaad.
Preach it
All the above.
I think we all want to see LL/ROC back, it would be beautiful, hope it happens – but I think we also want this to become a new franchise that will last a long time. Call it a reboot or whatever, but there will have to be a new Xena/Gabrielle.
Sadly, I wish NBC showed more enthusiasm for this. Just not seeing it. With Tapert and Co working on AvED, will they veer off to return to Xena?
I do think the potential Wonder Woman franchise has probably thrown this project off. If they were serious on this, I think they would be moving with nostalgia marketing (license some damn Funkos), a blu ray box set, and getting some hype together to build critical mass toward a new series. Because this hasn’t happened, a new series (even a mini-film) seems a long ways off.
Kind of an aside, but I think a bluray is unlikely no matter what, because it’s a matter of technology. I think Xena falls into the window of time when they weren’t shooting on digital yet but they were editing and adding special effects on NTSC resolution footage rather than on the shooting resolution…To do a bluray release that looked any better than the dvds, they’d have to find the original film of the show and then REDO the cutting and the special effects and the coloring and all that in order to do blurays, I think. I read a big long explanation about it in regards to Star Trek DS9 here earlier this month: http://www.treknews.net/2017/02/02/why-ds9-voyager-not-on-blu-ray-hd/
Not Great News
Is there such a thing as a ‘good news day’ anymore?
If no blu rays, there’s so many other options for nostalgia marketing – even if they never go ahead with a new series. It’s easy money.
If everyone with the reboot was all for making Xena canon, open queer – makes me wonder if that had an impact on the reboot going ahead. I hope not.
The Doctor Is Out 