“I was a kid when the original was on - I LOVED it. The new BSG sucks. Granted, there are hot women on the new version, no doubt, but that’s the only thing the new has over the old.
Just my opinion, of course.”
Well, the 1970s version did have the gorgeous Maren Jensen and Jane Seymour(both ladies I adored) in their prime. Never watched the new one. Once I heard how PC it would be I had no desire to waste my time on it.
Good article by Dirk Benedict. I especially liked this quote:
‘“Re-imagining”, they call it. “Un-imagining” is more accurate. To take what once was and twist it into what never was intended. So that a television show based on hope, spiritual faith and family is un-imagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and family dysfunction. To better reflect the times of ambiguous morality in which we live, one would assume. A show in which the aliens (Cylons) are justified in their desire to destroy human civilization, one would assume. Indeed, let us not say who the good guys are and who the bad are. That is being “judgmental,” taking sides, and that kind of (simplistic) thinking went out with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and Kathryn Hepburn and John Wayne and, well, the original “Battlestar Galactica.”’
I’ll take the “judgmental” BG over the PC BG any day.
I agree with everything you wrote. I wonder what Maren is up to these days?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0421596/
Nothing since 1981. Oh well - good for her. Probably living a clean life outside of the Hollywood drivel.