Discussion RecycledInSpace / LiveActionTV

Pulled the following for "Just because you can define something as "in space" doesn't mean it counts. It still needs to be recycled from an older idea" and "It's not enough that an idea seems to be ripping off another idea. It needs to be blatant in its advertising that it is a copy for it to count."

• Re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is original Battlestar Galactica TAKEN SERIOUSLY!
  • Hardly "seriously" when you have Cylon fetish-dungeon ships, and crank the Fanservice Up To Eleven. More like a Darker and Edgier version.
  • With the revival of serial-formatted TV such as 24 and others, rather than episodic tales, the Re-imagined Series and J.J. Abrams's Lost were can't-miss-an-episode shows at the time. The subject matter and Mind Screw plots between these two shows were too similar for some fans, jesting that the new BSG was "LOST: IN SPACE!"

• Of course, between 1970-1973 the show was noticable for being Doctor Who NOT IN SPACE!
• In one Dead Ringers sketch, the Tenth Doctor is referred to as "Jarvis Cocker IN SPACE!"

• The Second Doctor is often described as Charlie Chaplin IN SPACE!
  • The Tenth Doctor plays with this trope in "Smith and Jones":
    The Doctor: Have you seen?! There are these things, these great big space Rhino things, I mean, Rhinos from space, and we're on the moon! Big space Rhinos, with guns! ON THE MOON!
  • The Eleventh is hardly above this:
    The Doctor: Dinosaurs! ON A SPACESHIP!
  • The Eleventh Doctor story "The Lodger" is lampshaded as Doctor Who ON EARTH.
  • The Fox TV movie is Doctor Who IN AMERICA!
  • Alright, let's get this over with... The TARDIS is Time And Relative Dimensions IN SPACE!
  • In-show examples; In "The Big Bang" (not really spoilers since they don't involve the main plot), we learn that the Doctor had previously taken Amy to "Miami IN SPACE"(with "automated sand"). At the very end of the episode, the Doctor is informed of an "Egyptian Goddess on the Orient Express--IN SPACE".
  • The Mind Robber goes beyond this trope, featuring such characters as Gulliver, Rupanzel, Cyrano and D'Artagnian IN A PARALLEL REALITY OUTSIDE OF TIME AND SPACE!
  • There was a subcategory of story titles that liked to emphasise this:
    • The Wheel IN SPACE!
    • Colony IN SPACE!
    • Frontier IN SPACE!
    • The Ark IN SPACE! (This last one is rather odd recycling, considering that The Ark was also IN SPACE!)

• Once Upon a Time in Wonderland is the least subtle out of all the examples here. It's in the title for crying out loud!
  • "The Next Phase" is basically Ghost IN SPACE, MINUS THE ACTUAL DEATH OF THE HEROES! Too bad Whoopi Goldberg wasn't there that week...
• As Lampshaded in a Voltaire filk, Star Trek: Voyager was Lost in Space IN SPACE! IN THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE!

• In 1993, thanks to the popularity of Saved by the Bell, NBC replaced its Saturday Morning lineup with TNBC, a lineup composed completely of shows that were Saved by the Bell IN SPACE!
  • California Dreams: AS A ROCK BAND!
  • Hang Time: AS A BASKETBALL TEAM!
  • City Guys: IN THE INNER CITY!

I really don't get the whole "Torchwood has the same tone of Doctor Who but with more sex". Someone explain better?