I was a huge fan of the original Battlestar Galactica. So, about a decade ago, my daughter loaned me a boxed set of an entire season. I watched a few episodes, but it felt like I was being strung along. It felt like it took two episodes to develop a story that could have been developed in 20 minutes.
It felt like the show was just filler to give you something to keep you viewing between commercials.
Meanwhile, I got turned on to Firefly and bought the entire series. My wife did the same thing with Reba. We know those entire series by heart now. She has Reba on while working around the house.
The original 70s battle star galactica was weak on the writing and episodes were slow moving a lot of the time... however, most things had slower moving storylines and action from that era, not just battlestar galactica. But the original BG definitely suffered from weak writing, watching it as an adult, instead of as a starry eyed kid, it doesn’t hold up well.. The premise is still good, and the characters still work, but definitely see the weak spots as an adult, that as a child you would miss.
Firefly was proof FOX could take gold and turn it into crap.
They completely blew it with the handling of that show...
Do you mean you realized you no longer liked the original Battlestar, or were you put off by the remake? I feel like one of the few who hated the reimagined version.
I recently recorded the pilot of Time After Time since I liked the Malcolm McDowell original. After it languished on my DVR for a week unwatched, I just deleted it.