I'd miss his dialogue.

Yeah, that's the thing: so much of Firefly is the dialog and characterizations. I remember comparing the pilot of SGA to the first episode of Firefly, and the difference was shocking: by the end of "The Train Job" you knew who those people were (all of them!) and what they wanted. By the end of the 2-hour SGA pilot you knew that... John Sheppard liked football.

For all his faults (and they are many) Joss can show you who these characters are, vividly and quickly.

I don't know why they'd remake a failed TV show.

Streaming services are looking for content that they know will bring in an audience, and Firefly has a cult following, still shows up on lots of favorite geeky lists, while not being so big as to prevent them from expanding the universe. The creators would have a lot more room to play with Firefly than with, say, Stargate.

And they are desperate for content to win the streaming wars: Disney today announced they options Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief series, which is... not something I would have expected.

I'll watch a Firefly reboot, but I'm prepared to be underwhelmed.

Oh, wow, I’m excited about The Thief, now!

Also, I checked my notes (good job, past me, documenting trivial stuff) and I was early in season 2 of The Expanse, but I still might be able to catch up. Too bad work expects me to work and not watch Amazon Prime all day.

I watched S5E01 of The Expanse last night, and I was not disappointed. This season covers one of my favorite books in the series, so I'm pretty stoked. (I am expecting bigger changes than in seasons' past, since S6 will be the last one and they've still got 4 more books to cover. But since the authors are also the lead writers/producers on the show I'm at least confident they won't GoT it in the final stretch.)

My younger son has watched the first few seasons of The Expanse (I think he's read the books too, but we've bought him so many Mars books, I'm not positive). He wants us to start watching after he finishes this semester. I'm always heartened when someone here already enjoys a thing someone in my family wants me to watch.

The show really hit its stride in S3, I think - for the first two seasons I was never quite sure if I liked the show because I loved the books or if it was actually good. But S3/S4 were fucking amazing.

Oh, wow, I thought season 1 and 2 were amazing! Note - still watching season 2. I do keep getting confused about what things I saw on screen and what I read because I started reading the books after watching at least some of season 1 so the pictures in my head are heavily informed by the show

Stupid work getting in the way of my binge-watching

Roku finally has the HBO Max app.

From my team meeting today:

Boss: "What are folks going to watch over the break? Besides Jillian rewatching Hannibal, that is."

I am really ambivalent about the idea of a Firefly reboot. On the one hand, Joss' dialog is part of what it made it so memorable. On the other hand, everything about how Inara's character was handled ... okay, all the parts of Joss' id that were on display. I'm not sure how a reboot would move past that.

I'm not sure how a reboot would move past that.

Yeah, that's a real issue.

... maybe they could hire Javier Grillo-Marxuach? Or John Rogers? They're both pretty good with the dialog and the genre stuff. Or bring back Ben Edlund?