Subj : Series reboots To : All From : Moondog Date : Sun Aug 14 2022 01:16:00 If you could reboot a movie or TV series, which would you pick and how would you do it? My pick is a short-lived comdeic action series from the late 80's called Hard Time on Planet Earth. The original series was about an alien elite military o fficer who helped win a planetary war. He gets in trouble leading a rebellion against the ruling council. Due to his recognition as a hero, his legal counsel gets his sentenced lightened to spend hard time living on a primitive planet (Earth) and placed in human form. His regular form is never showed, except he wore a full body armor and helmet. He is a similar character to Todd, the main character in the movie Soldier in that he was raised and bred for war. He is smart, though, and learn by watching television shows how to interact with other humans. He has a compnaion, a small robot known as Control. It's part parole officer and assist him in acquiring knowledge. It hovers, and can become invisible. It can tap into electrical and data systems to help get around his lack of a paper trail. From here the show is basically the lone drifter that gets hooked into defending the weak from the strong or brutal elements. He has made enemies in the past, and must keep a low profile because he lacks the weapons and armor to fight them. In my remake, Jesse would've always had human form, except he and his troops are told they were genetically engineered to be warriors. The host species that kidnapped them from Earth as children and trained them would be portrayed as a more frail hominid form which looks like it could be related to humans, but not as robust (hence their choice to exploit humans in a proxy war.) The series would begin with a battlefield scene where Jesse and his troops in battle armor breach the door of an enemy bunker, and dispatch the reptillian soldiers manning the controls. They blow the main control systems, which disables the enemy's technical assets. The other "enhanced" soldiers clean up the battlefield with little effort. This establishes Jesse as a hero of the Republic, and he is given the right to full citizenship. The public accepts his difference in appearance under the guise he is genetically enhanced. Due to his inability to adjust to the alien civillian life, within a month this decorated hero is living on the streets and getting into trouble. The military intelligence group which knows the secret about the "enhanced" soldiers sees this as a larger problem as they decommission other humans troop s that were raised outside their social system. Rather than euthanize these "heroes," they plan to return them to Earth in a way that would not reveal they were pawns in a proxy war. They convince Jesse he will be sent on a deep cover recon mission for the Republic on a less developed planet. His enhancements will help him blend in with the planet's inhabitants. The officer who recomended this project also gets assigned, and is cosmetically altered so he can pass as an acceptable, but scrawny example of a human. Since Earth is outside the realm of treatied planets, the reptillian species has spies reporting of this scouting mission to Earth. They suspect it is more than what is stated, and want to get their hands on an "enhanced" soldier without intruding on Republic soil. They send "skin jobs," special infiltrator troops wearing skin suits to make them look human, to track down J esse and bring him back dead or alive for study. Right off the bat, I expect to have Jesse to begin putting the pieces together as to what is going on. He is quite clever, and can see through a snow job. As he tries to assimilate into human culture, he has PTSD to deal with. He finds comfort in a veteran's group, listening to other vets working out their problems. He would mention from time to time a battle he was at, and the names of the alien locations could easily pass for somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan. He is also working day jobs doing landscaping or other physical labor. The alien officer who accompanies him tries to stay out of the public, although he tries to supplment their income by working from the motor home they purchased with gold they were issued to establish currency with. One of Jesse's employers notices his skillset is much more tactically oriented after a group of thugs attempt to rough up Jesse, and offers him jobs that pay well, but are less than legitimate. This does not bode well with his parole officer, even though he tries to explain this is an opportunity to explore the seedier aspects of human society. That is an outline of what will be covered. Alien assassins, exposing his origins, morality and work ethics, and possibly flashbacks to when he was a child and possibly finding his family. There might even be a sub plot of gove rnment catching attention to him and his parole officer, and possible assassination attempts by the Republic. --- þ Synchronet þ The Cave BBS - Since 1992 - cavebbs.homeip.net .