We started where aired Galactica left off, and had the Fleet leave Apollo behind as soon as possible. We gave the viper cadre to Starbuck, then, after many years, brought Apollo back to a cadre that had moved on, where Apollo had not grown or changed at all. Oh, the angst! Oh, the drama!
In fact, I took the characters I created and made up a different universe for them to hang out in.
Heh...
Of course, since I never saw the older shows, I dunno what his character was like in those.
And I suppose, logically speaking, I don't have a reason to dislike him. I mean...how many times has he saved the day? But still...he's such a drama queen a lot of the time. And all the daddy issues in the first season (speaking of the current series) got old. Grow up already!
I haven't gotten into the new BG. Our #1 son really likes the show, but doesn't watch it during the season. He gets the DVDs from Netflix and watches at his leisure.