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At some point or another, we all have a beloved franchise that, to our great disappointment, suddenly takes a massive turn in the wrong direction.
If you could, what franchise would you rewrite, and where and how would you rewrite it?
For me right now, it would be Resident Evil. While I enjoyed 4, I really didn't like that it started with an explanation that Umbrella had essentially died on it's own after Racoon City. 5 and 6 were just awful, so I won't comment on those further. What I would do is scrap everything after Code: Veronica, and state in the opening that Umbrella had managed to completely cover up their involvement in the Racoon City incident, while simultaneously pinning everything on Wesker, his S.T.A.R.S., and the rest of the Racoon survivors, essentially labeling them all terrorists.
In this new timeline, the fourth game would involve the survivors from the previous games going into an Umbrella facility somewhere in Europe to look for evidence to clear their names and take down Umbrella. In the process, they would fall into a trap designed to use them to test new B.O.W.s. At some point, Wesker and his rival agency would infiltrate the facility and release the T-Virus, causing another outbreak while he executes Umbrella's top executives. In the end, Umbrella would be ruined, but the Racoon survivors would still be fugitives, and Wesker would be in possession of all of Umbrella's research.
Later, whenever Wesker finally was dealt with, it would be WITHOUT a ridiculous mutation, as TBH he was more than a match for anyone just with the virus he already had injected himself with.
Ate there any franchises you would change if you could?
If you could, what franchise would you rewrite, and where and how would you rewrite it?
For me right now, it would be Resident Evil. While I enjoyed 4, I really didn't like that it started with an explanation that Umbrella had essentially died on it's own after Racoon City. 5 and 6 were just awful, so I won't comment on those further. What I would do is scrap everything after Code: Veronica, and state in the opening that Umbrella had managed to completely cover up their involvement in the Racoon City incident, while simultaneously pinning everything on Wesker, his S.T.A.R.S., and the rest of the Racoon survivors, essentially labeling them all terrorists.
In this new timeline, the fourth game would involve the survivors from the previous games going into an Umbrella facility somewhere in Europe to look for evidence to clear their names and take down Umbrella. In the process, they would fall into a trap designed to use them to test new B.O.W.s. At some point, Wesker and his rival agency would infiltrate the facility and release the T-Virus, causing another outbreak while he executes Umbrella's top executives. In the end, Umbrella would be ruined, but the Racoon survivors would still be fugitives, and Wesker would be in possession of all of Umbrella's research.
Later, whenever Wesker finally was dealt with, it would be WITHOUT a ridiculous mutation, as TBH he was more than a match for anyone just with the virus he already had injected himself with.
Ate there any franchises you would change if you could?
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I would have set Star Trek 09 1000+ years after Nemesis and kept the same plot, only changing the Fed characters involved (For example: Chris Pine plays an OC rather than a alternate Kirk).
Charmed. The last season should have never happened. I'd go so far as to say that maybe the show should have ended after Shannon Doherty's rage quit. I really did not like her replacement or much of the writing for her.
Bleach. For me, it ended after the whole rescue Rukia deal.
Yeah, that's always going to be a sore spot for me. Abrams seems to like killing off things which we do not like to be killed off.
I'll try to have something with a little more detail later. I've had ideas for rewrites, I just can't think of them right now.
That said apparently some company got Free Radicals work and is making there own Battlefront 3, Although they can't charge for it otherwise Disney would be pretty angry and sick their lawyers on them.
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Well, there's the Vengeance, so at least something good came from the reboots. Even then, the other Fed ships, Klingon ships, and such are pretty cool, just the story that could use some work. Well, maybe a lot of work, but it's too late now.
Personally, I'd probably write out the reboots are an entirely independent universe of it's own, without blowing up the prime-verse's Romulus or anything like that. Or at the very least, not blow up Romulus. Surely Nero could have been from some other Romulan colony that could be blown up instead?
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It is the single lynch pin moment in the franchise history where everything went stupid.
I disagree. The whole Hobus thing is sci-fi wise far-fetched, but I think it makes a solid story. The Iconian return is also a neat plot twist, even though I wouldn't mind rewriting it.
But VOY needs to be completely rewritten. The characters were all grea,t the premise was great, the execution left a lot to be desired and it causes the real headaches.
I would've made the Maquis a more active part of the Dominion war in DS9, ultimately (and ironically) allying with Damar's Cardassaian resistance at the end.
And I would've given Enterprise a few more seasons.
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My forum single-issue of rage: Make the Proton Experimental Weapon go for subsystem targetting!
They've spent too much effort building depressing character backstories instead of focusing on the main plot. The result was an space soap opera which just happened to have stargates from time to time.
My rewrite would be:
Fix the basic problems with the ship (water, food, air, energy) in the pilot and another episode, follow up with the blue alien storyline, some exploration, mid season, crack the command code while fending off a blue alien attack, more exploration, end season with the Lucian alliance attack. New season begins with twin destinies but the Destiny descendants are a galactic civilization at war with the Berserk drones and help the Destiny crew in restoring the ship and contacting Earth.
I stopped watching after the episode where they were switching back and forth between "The ship's gonna xplodes!" and "Oh! Oh! Oh!" Witff were they thinking...I went from skeptical but willing to give it a chance to "NO". I'm told it got better in the next season. I'll just take their word for it.
Plus I found their resident genius to be unconvincing. I think I can see where they were going with it, like an unstable but brilliant type, but it just didn't do it for me.
But then, this is true of literally every science fiction franchise involving beings physically traveling to differently evolved planetary biomes.
THAT IS ALL THAT WAS NEEDED.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
And then you have a Trek universe where the primary differentiation is forehead due to a single progenitor race, or a universe like Stargate where most people out there were taken from an actual Earth human population and resettled thousands of years prior. Species-hopping does exist as well as safe reservoir for one host that is transmitted to another species host.
I'm a biologist and I tell you, viruses wouldn't be a problem for Earth humans, but they might be a problem for alien humans. Meanwhile Earth humans would be way more concerned about bacteria, protozoa and parasites.
Viruses are very specific and it would be really hard if not impossible to find an alien virus capable of infecting humans, meanwhile it's likely that some of the alien humans are not inmune to some of the viruses we have on Earth and while it's plausible that we might find new strains of already existing Earth viruses that followed a different evolutionary path on an alien world, modern medicine and maybe our inmune system would be able to deal with them. Viruses used to be a problem when we didn't have vaccines and antiserums, now bacteria are a problem because they are capable of developing resistances to antibiotics.
Bacteria, protozoa and parasites, now that's another story, there is a reason the most devastating plagues known to mankind are bacterial, like cholera, tyfhus, meningitis, black death and protozoa like Malaria and Leishmaniasis. Those pesky buggers can live almost anywhere, develop resistances to antibiotics and can easily adapt to different conditions, not to mention alien bacteria could theoretically infect humans. Viruses need to be able to take over a cell, use its "machinery" to produce more viruses, an alien virus would not harm us because it doesn't know how to do it, but bacteria, they just want the stuff we are made off, the basic building blocks. They make more bacteria by themselves and same goes for protozoa and parasites.
I quite liked RE 5, 6 was just appauling.
About 98% of the Dr Who Stuff since the revamp.
The Star Wars prequals and those new Disney things.
All of Star trek ofter Voyger and Nemesis.
It's like they cant come up with anything without it involved.
Now, we know that it's been too long since the Christopher Reeve movies, and the movie world must be brought up to date. However, we can't lose sight of what the character means - Superman is more than just a guy with enormous muscles and a cape, he's an icon. He stands for the best we can be. Accordingly, the infant Kal-El is found by the Midwestern farm couple, yes - but we don't write Jonathan Kent to be a Randian archetype. His concern should not be for whether Clark is being used, but for whether Clark is using his abilities for the betterment of man, rather than the betterment of himself. So while Clark might wind up running from his responsibilities, as shown in Man of Steel, it would be a personal journey of discovery, learning why these beings need his help, not simply hiding as his father taught him.
When he gets his costume, the colors should not be muted. The character is bold and bigger than life - and his costume should be the same way. Bright red, bright blue, not the subdued dark pastels Snyder used. And while he may still be forced to kill Zod in the end (as he doesn't yet have the experience to stop another Kryptonian without that level of violence), he should be visibly agonizing about it, perhaps even weeping over the corpse afterward.
And in the sequel movie with Batman (who does get the dark, subdued colors, because that's his iconography), while they might be manipulated into a fight, Supes should see through it pretty quickly, then try to get Bruce to stop (and Bruce then gets him to fake fighting more, while they figure out what Luthor's endgame is).
Superman is probably my least favorite super hero, most DC heroes have almost god like power, which isn't something I like. However, thats some great stuff in there, and it would go a long way towards fixing Man of Steel.
I just didn't like anything about 5. They said it was going to be just as scary with the day time setting, but it wasn't scary at all. It was also the game that fully pushed the series into full blown action, and I disliked most of the story, particularly the part when Wesker injected himself with the new virus, even though he was more than capable of killing Chris with his bare hands if he would just stop toying with him.
To expand on my ideas for redoing Resident Evil 4, I would have the survivors split into two teams. The player would either be Rebecca, with Leon and Claire as supporting characters, or Carlos, with Chris and Jill in supporting roles. Barry would stay at the safe house with Sherry, since he's a family man he seems like the perfect choice to watch over the girl.
Rebecca would encounter Wesker, and be manipulated with an "enemy of my enemy" lie into helping him, while Carlos would deal with Nickolai, who would survived Resident Evil 3. The game would end with Barry killed by Wesker, and Sherry being taken.
Team leader: Cassandra Sandsmark
Others: M'gann M'Orzz, Kara Zor-El, Conner Kent, Kaldur'ahm, Artemis Crock, Damien Wayne, Garfield Logan, Devastation, Tanya Wilson(new character)
Story synopsis: a new war between the Greek gods and Titans is brewing. Cassie is the team leader in part for symbolic reasons, but also she's pretty much the most powerful member of the team. In this story she is more goddess than human. Not only does she have strength, speed and the ability to fly, as well as a few mystical weapons, but she can summon lightning much like her father Zeus, teleport, and has a sort of limited omniscience(she has to focus and concentrate to use it, but she can see almost anything or anyone almost anywhere).
Tanya is a person who grew up thinking she was a normal human... But one day she met Cassie and shook her hand. Touching a demi-goddess awoke the latent Titan essence in her. Then she had a choice... help her kind destroy the mortal world she lived in or... fight them. She's very strong and tough, but also has the ability to control fire/magma and water/ice, which also gives her near immunity to those elements, and the ability to use them to levitate/fly.
Devastation... well, she was literally created (by the Titans!) to be a supervillain(more specifically to kill WW). Why is she fighting them? Well.... Wonder Woman dealt her a morale shattering defeat that literally changed who she was. WW used time travel to add some of her own blood to the mystical concoction used to create Deva. The idea was to give Deva the ability to choose her own destiny and not simply live the life the Titans chose for her(IE being a living weapon). Deva was utterly horrified, and spent several years sulking instead of trying to kill WW. Now? The Titans have decided that she is a liability and tried to get rid of her, but not until after Cassie talked to her about the coming war. Well, actually, the Titans apparently decided to kill her BECAUSE Cassie talked to her.
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