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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [qb] Not to go all nerd jihad, but I don't even get it. I mean, do we really need the fun prefixes anymore? There's Battlestar Galactica, which is totally awesome, and then there is a goofy show from the 1970s that happened to inspire it. It's like getting bent out of shape because no one talks about the Articles of Confederation anymore. [/qb][/QUOTE]Word. Also, Dirk Benedict is a petrified, anti-feminist relic** who can't get over the fact that someone happens to be portraying a new character with the same name as his. Which is really what this whole discussion boils down to. Ron Moore took the original premise and a few of the starting character points, and took them in a completely new direction. Richard Hatch had the guts to realize that a well-written drama with an interesting character was worth swallowing his ego for, and now he's got a solid recurring role with an excellent storyline. My thoughts on the original BSG are quite simple: it had some interesting premises, had some interesting angles, but was so incredibly cheesy that despite enjoying the episodes I did watch, I can't bring myself to go out of the way to watch more of them. The last episode I saw, "Fire In Space", was just so incredibly bad that I completely understand why Moore wrote that internal fire scene for the miniseries (when the Cylon nuke hit the Galactica) � to bring some real science and physics and sensibility to what used to be a very poorly-thought-out show. Just turn a key, decompress the burning sections, and be done with it. Why did it take the full damn hour for seasoned space veterans (as they were supposed to be) to figure that out? I don't want to sound like a fanboy or a basher, but the fact remains that the original show, for all its merits, never seemed to think the entire concept through. From simple stuff like the Cylons "destroying" the colonies with strafing laser fire, to the silly notion that a mere three days after the whole thing, everyone's already smiling and clean and happy at a party? The whole thing was just half-baked � at least in retrospect. (We all view past works through the goggles of our own times, of course. Just like the original Star Trek, we can't entirely judge its style and say it was wrong to make the show.) Moore felt he was capable of doing a more dramatic and realistic story to tell a relevant and riveting military, political, cultural, and personal drama... and he has succeeded, brilliantly. ** Note: I certainly don't subscribe to the extremes that the term [i]feminism[/i] usually refers to these days, but Benedict's views are nothing less than reactionary. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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