Getting Liberated

Apparently there's a plan to reboot "Blake's 7".

The plan is to shop this with American networks.

*sigh*

While I am overjoyed that someone wants to reboot the gritty space opera, I don't think a U.S. network is the way to go (unless you're thinking HBO).

"Blake's 7" was gritty, dark, and vicious. The characters were morally ambiguous at the best of times and there weren't a lot of "best" times in the series.

U.S. television networks will either make the series sunshiny and saccharine by stripping away character depth or they'll muck about with idiotic TV execs to wipe out any coherency in the plot.

Or, FSM-forbid, they'll hire Ron Moore or Damon Lindelof to add their plot elements. We'll then get stuck with angels, some kind of primary-color substance as a MacGuffin, and an especially-incoherent ending.

This makes me sad.