Not a lot of shows deserve to get reboots, but it is hard not to see how a highly acclaimed 17-year-old sci-fi series would work incredibly well if it gets another season. Reboots are starting to get a bad reputation, and rightfully so, because they are often seen as cash cows to milk the popularity of their parent shows and movies. Since they are solely created to riff on the success of their predecessors, they often come off as hollow and derivative recreations of familiar stories.
However, it would be unfair to say that all reboots are terrible. Time and again, great TV show revivals like Cobra Kai, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, and The Office manage to spin a refreshing, creative yarn on their original shows and create something new out of them. Not a lot of TV series and movies can be spun around and turned into something intriguing. However, one sci-fi show from the late 2000s seems to have all the potential in the world to make a meaningful return and be as engaging as it once was.
Fringe Deserves A Reboot After 5 Incredible Seasons
Finge’s Timelessness Proves Its Reboot Would Do Well
With its sci-fi mystery of the week format, Fringe dared to explore many bizarre pseudoscientific ideas that no other show of the genre was attempting to touch. Although this made some installments of the sci-fi series far more intriguing than others, Fringe always managed to keep viewers on their toes by keeping them guessing what would happen next. The show’s dynamic trio, Olivia, Walter, and Peter, were also brilliantly written in a way that made them both comical and relatably human, which played a crucial role in grounding the show’s surreal story beats in realism.
Since Fringe effectively paved the way for many other sci-fi shows to succeed and proved that its formula could be used to churn out five seasons’ worth of compelling content, it is hard not to see how it would not work well as a reboot.
During its five-season run, Fringe rarely dipped in quality and proved that not all sci-fi shows have to experience sophomore slumps. Since Fringe effectively paved the way for many other sci-fi shows to succeed and proved that its formula could be used to churn out five seasons’ worth of compelling content, it is hard not to see how it would not work well as a reboot.
It has been over a decade since its final episode came out, making it the perfect time for its reboot’s release. While audiences familiar with it could embrace the reboot’s nostalgia, new viewers could experience the fascination of watching it for the first time.
I Would Love To See Fringe Reimagined For The 2020s
Some Sci-Fi Concepts In The Show Would Require Changes
While some sci-fi story beats from Fringe‘s earlier episodes would still work incredibly well in a reboot, others focusing on alternate timelines and the many-worlds interpretation would require changes. In recent times, sci-fi concepts surrounding simulations and parallel worlds have been overused in both movies and TV shows. Owing to this, Fringe‘s previous explorations of these concepts may seem a little too redundant and dated. Although Fringe‘s reboot can still adopt these ideas, it must carefully spin them into a refreshing yarn to etch its own idenтιтy in the sci-fi genre.
Since the show’s end in 2013, the real world has gone through many significant changes, especially after the global pandemic. This has led to the rise of even more strange scientific ideas. Instead of focusing on what the original series did with its stories, the reboot of the sci-fi show could very well riff on some of these relatively newer “hokey” phenomena to keep its storytelling timely and get modern audiences invested.
