You're back for more sci-fi here on BuzzChomp. I'm Dan Salem and today we're
talking about a TV show that definitely
needs a reboot. They're rebooting
everything under the sun, especially in
the science fiction genre.
Let's bring back The Visitor.
I"m Mandi. I'm Dan. 
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The visitor was a show ahead of
its time. Its sort of been redone since and
it took place over a single season
1997-1998 on Fox.
Yeah Fox is known for a short leash. The
Visitor was no different. It was about a
man who was abducted by aliens during
World War two and then escapes 50 years
later. He doesn't age during this
encounter and he gained special
abilities. He can heal people and he has
a slew of other abilities and he escapes
to earth. He's a single visitor, but he wasn't
the only abductee. He's the only one
who has escaped and this is the basic
premise. He goes around and he feels like
he's on a mission to help people.
He feels as though he must make a
difference in the world and better
humanity. He's learned things from his
alien captors and he escaped and he's
better for it. He's got abilities. He
didn't age. Lots of cool stuff going on
with him. The Visitor stars John Corbett
who has since gotten more fame from Big
Fat Greek Wedding, Sex in the City, among
other things. He's also a country music
singer, little-known fact, and he was
truly the crux of this show. He would
travel around the country and interact
with different characters. The FBI was
chasing him, but not to capture him. They
wanted to learn from him.
The NSA was chasing him because he
crash-landed in an alien spacecraft and
so you know how that story goes. The end
of the first season, it almost like tied
a little bow on it, but then it was
completely open-ended. The NSA agent
got killed and then our lead
character brought him back to life.
The FBI were dismissed, so new FBI was
brought on and they were no longer good.
Then other abducted individuals captured
him because he escaped and broke the
laws, but then he got to plead his case
and prove why he should go back and help
humanity and he gets an opportunity to help.
Then the show's cancelled.
The reason the show is
ahead of its time is because it was one
of the first series to do online digital
web shorts in conjunction with it. It had
a website tie-in, it was trying to create
a whole universe behind the show with
web content. This was before web content
was actually popular. Since then we've
had a show The 4400 of a similar premise
where 4400 individuals come back to
earth after being abducted in different
years. But all of them haven't aged and
that's their journey. So the concept of
being abducted, coming back to earth, but
not aging and then being a fish out of
water is pretty cool. But it has been
done since The Visitor did it. Why don't
we just bring back The Visitor in and of
itself? One man or woman coming back to
Earth after being abducted, now with special
abilities. Such a unique, special case.
Nobody sees it coming. Nobody really
knows what happened to that person, why
they ran away, what the ramifications are.
People chasing them. I also think you
could add in, you could add time travel,
you could add in multiverse, you could
add in multiple alien races, you could
add in weapons and other technologies.
You could add in aliens already on earth
that we're monitoring him in the first
place, to have captured him in the first
place. Other escaped abductees. There's all these
little wrinkles that could have factored
in. Unfortunately we only got one season.
No one's ever even
considered bringing this back. I have no
idea why. It only lasted one season. It
was really really well done. It was super
interesting, well presented, great music,
and the quintessential science fiction
with the alien, with the abilities. But so
many unknowns and the government chasing
them. This has worked successfully so
many times before and so many times
since. The Visitor didn't get its due
justice. I would like them to bring back
the Visitor. We could get a present-day
human abducted and then
escapes into the future future. So then
like it's a dual fish-out-of-water for
the audience, whereas in The Visitor
our lead came from World War two and was
now escaped in the present-day earth, so
we were very familiar with what earth
was like. This individual wasn't, but what
if the world that the person left was
what
we knew and then once they were able to
escape their alien captors, they escaped
back into a future we don't know. This is
kind of cool. Maybe in that future humans
and those aliens have like, what's it
called, democracy, democratic
conversations with each other to try to
work out their differences. Yet the
humans didn't realize that these aliens
had captured some of their own in the
past and now who's who? Do we
have an alien captor just like they had
human captors? Do we learn stuff from our
lead? There are multiple ways the show
could be brought back. I really would
like to see it reimagined, reinvented.
Maybe I'm the one to do it.
How many of you
watched the visitor on Fox in the
early 90s? How many of you have watched
it since? Some streaming service must
have it available.
I really should look into this because I
would like to watch it again.
I'll never forgot the show. It was like the first
Syfy show that hooked me and then it got
the plug yanked out from it so quickly. I
want John to get another show because he
didn't really get a chance to be a lead
in anything after The Visitor, which was
too bad. He's great in it and the
show was great and it just was ahead of
its time. We see it time and time again,
where a show is ahead of its time.
I'm Dan Salem and we're talking sci-fi here on
BuzzzChomp. Comment below
have you watched The Visitor? Is there
another great sci-fi show that really
only got one or two seasons you'd love
to see brought back? I'll check it out.
Maybe I'll do a video on it. All right
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