I got into a discussion on another board regarding some of the story arcs that were taken from the original series. Some of these kids totally discount the old series. They go wild over the whole Pegasus arc and don’t realize it was pretty much the same storyline from the original!!(except for the assassination plots, lesbian sex, shooting your XO, prisoner abuse and rape) There’s alot of bashing of Glen Larson on some of the boards that I’ve gone to.
I love that expression on Starbuck’s face!!
I’m a fan of both versions of the BSG (with the exception of show that shall not be mentioned) and I find both versions of BSG good. Granted the TOS was corny, but I guess we have to understand the time period back then. That is my take.. I’ll have to find some unfilmed scripts of the old BSG.
Er...except for a ship named Pegasus with a commander named Cain (and that character got one of Ronnie and Dave's sex changes), there's very little similarity between the two.
Ronnie and Dave have both stated numerous times they did everything they could to get away from the awful "stigma" of the original series. Last year they were even complaining about the title discouraging new viewers from watching the show. Ironically, NBC/Universal/Sci-Fi wanted the title only for marketing purposes to get people to watch it in the beginning.
I don't see how anyone can watch the episode "Dirty Hands" and not notice it's essentially Soviet Communist dogma. On the other hand, the people watching Ronnie and Dave's version have been educated by socialist liberal types, have no concept of history, and are more interested in the soap opera-ish bits.
Admittedly I'm also very annoyed with Supreme Court at the moment, and I see the same kind of legal relativism in Ronnie and Dave's show. It's like the granola crowd has taken over. "If we all love one another and forgive each other, things will just be great!"