Starting out as a tabletop RPG produced by FASA, BattleTech has gone on to make appearances in multiple media. Probably the most well known are the video games and its spin-off series Mechwarrior. The franchise takes place in the future as outlying colonies known as the Inner Sphere is cut off from Earth and eventually wages war on each other, with different kingdoms and houses vying for control. At some point a new threat was added with The Clans, a group of warriors who share a code but also exist as groups fighting for dominance of both the Clans and now the Inner Sphere. It’s at this point that Saban Entertainment produced a thirteen episode series based on the games.
The show tells of the first appearance of Clan Jade Falcon as it took over the planet Sommerset, the first planet to fall under their assault. Adam Steiner, a cousin of one of the more powerful houses in the Sphere, was born there and uses his family name to bring together representatives of two of the warring houses–the Federated Commonwealth and the Draconis Combine, to form a force to reclaim Sommerset as the first battle to drive the Clans off. Thus they will be referred to in the series as the 1st Sommerset Strikers. Tonight’s episode is the invasion and attempt to create a counterforce. I keep thinking I already posted this for Saturday Night Showcase but since I didn’t let’s finally make me right.
BW Vs Comicbook: Disney Should NOT Remake Star Wars
Nobody, even the movie’s creator, thought Star Wars would be all that successful. George Lucas just wanted to make a movie following his vision, inspired by Japanese samurai movies, classic science fiction serials, and the traditional “hero’s journey”. He went through hoops to ensure the movie got made. Imagine everyone’s surprise, especially the studios that turned it down, when the movie sparked a revolution in storytelling, restoring the action option to science fiction, proving making something kid-friendly didn’t mean making a movie for kids, and pretty much creating the “blockbuster” movie. It’s now a huge part of our culture. Not just our pop culture but people usually know what you mean when you reference Darth Vader, Jedi, droids, lightsabers, and a host of other terminology, some of which has become part of science fiction or as the extended media coined it “science fantasy”, elements of both science fiction and fantasy.
However, it isn’t everyone’s favorite type of movie, and some of those not into it are part of what me at BW Media Spotlight refers to as the “everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee” crowd. They hate the fact that something so important doesn’t cater to their interests, tastes, and preferences, and work to fix that while thumbing their collective noses at the die hard fans while the casual fans don’t really notice. Unfortunately many of them are currently in the Star Wars writing room and the poor box office returns and poorer merchandise sales say it hasn’t worked for them.
Kofi Outlaw, writer for Comicbook.com, a site that is no longer about just comic books like other websites such as CBR (formerly Comic Book Resources), has an idea: just remake the original trilogy. In a recent opinion piece Outlaw details why he thinks the original trilogy needs to be remade for a modern audience. And here I come along to tell you why it shouldn’t, beyond the fact that movie goers are pretty much tired of endless remakes more than they are sequels.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 18, 2020 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, remake, Star Wars.
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