"No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later"
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The creative pitch underneath is smart, and it hints at why Buck Rogers kept struggling to feel urgent. Sending Buck "back to Earth" is a course correction away from abstract space opera and toward a more legible kind of futurism: recognizable locations, familiar institutions, the pleasure of seeing our world made strange. "Stories around the planet" reads like an anthology strategy, a way to refresh stakes by moving geographically and politically instead of inventing yet another alien corridor set. You can hear the producer-brain peeking through the actor: expand scope, vary tone, create episodic engines.
"Show what it was like 500 years later" is the real hook and the quiet critique. It implies the series hadn’t fully cashed its own premise - the shock of historical displacement - and that season three would finally foreground the unsettling part: not just that Buck is out of time, but that Earth itself has become the alien planet.
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Gerard, Gil. (2026, January 17). No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/no-i-was-talking-to-the-network-and-universal-71891/
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Gerard, Gil. "No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/no-i-was-talking-to-the-network-and-universal-71891/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/no-i-was-talking-to-the-network-and-universal-71891/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
