[RayBob]

After reading this article, all I could muster is "Why?" (I'm assuming that there are those who would ask the same question re my posting it, too.)

[Michael Barnes]

Sci-Fi drops Farscape (the bastards). Brings on Tremors the series (and it's series BTW ;-), and now this?

Your right, why?

[cyborg]

Why remake it? Is this going to turn out like Deep Space Nine?

[Wolfie]

Screw Galactica, bring back "Space:1999".

[Alex Murphy]

In the new version, Olmos said, it's impossible to tell Cylons from humans

I smell a backstory being dictated by budget limitations. Human-looking enemies don't require expensive robot suits.

"There's no two ways around it. If I were a purist, I wouldn't watch it. Don't waste your time. Get the old version on DVD. Don't hurt yourself. Don't go through the pain."

Sounds like Olmos is only doing this for the paycheck :)

[Benrand]

Let me guess, the Cylons will all speak in a Texas accent and will be on the side of the eeevil capitalists who destroyed the Earth with toxic sludge so they could profit.

[CathyRyan]

Bring back Babylon 5.

[CathyRyan]

Bring back Space Above and Beyond (title?)

[HamiltonJay]

WHAT? Cyclons look like HUMANS???? WTF!!! This is obviously just an attempt to use the BG name to make some money.... you can't not have Cyclons as big tin can looking things... those dark rooms, high gloss reflections, reverberating voices and ocilliating eyes are what make BG worth watching!!! Lord knows it wasn't the writing or acting talent!

For Shame Sci Fi, for SHAME!!!

[yarddog]

Cattle Car Galactica had some pretty stupid writing although it wasn't that bad of a show.

It did have some nice female eye candy. I wonder what ever happened to that Hawaiian looking actress who had black hair and blue eyes. She was unusually pretty but seemed to drop off the face of the earth after Galactica.

[Willie Green]

Olmos takes over the role of Commander Adama, originally played by the late Lorne Greene.

We'll know that Olmos' career has hit rock bottom when he starts doing the Alpo commercials as well.

(Horse-meat sales stir Texas controversy )

[yarddog]

There was a Sci-Fi series way back around the 60's which I really liked. It starred Roy Thinnes and was called "The Invaders" The neatest thing was when he would kill one of the aliens, their bodies would burn up which was explained as having something to do with their souls going back to their home planet.

I never understood why it was not more popular.

[BenLurkin]

"Big time," Olmos said. "There's no two ways around it. If I were a purist, I wouldn't watch it. Don't waste your time. Get the old version on DVD. Don't hurt yourself. Don't go through the pain."

OKAY, I won't.

Nuts, I loved Galactica . . . why not honor it with a decent remake.

[Captain Rhino]

Cylons look like humans??? How unimaginative - especially for an industry that prides itself in its ability to "reimagine" classics on a grander scale.

Clunky as the Cylon soldiers in the original BG were, they at least postulated a civilization that was not as completely humancentric as the remake sounds to be. Personally, I liked the fact that the Cylon academic and leader types had those translucent bubble heads with their flashing lights, sinister eyes, and oily sophisticate voices. Said just the right way, "By your command" still makes my hair (what little is left of it) stand on end. Don't tell me that all Hollywood could come up with in imagining a robot civilization was to make them look - all of them? - like humans! What is that, a robotic case of flesh envy?? Sheesh.

I hope it bags and the fan base (old and new) can get something a little truer to the original. It's possible. After all, "Enterprise" has finally drawn close (closer) to the standard set by TOS despite the long wandering of successive Star Trek series in the wastelands (ST:TNG, DS9, and ST:Voyager) BTW I did like individual shows in each of those series but not the series as a whole. (Although DS9 did come close.)

[xp38]

Here's why. Hollywood is besides being morally bankrupt is creatively so too. Remakes of old tv series and old movies and a clear example. Usually old tv shows get the big screen treatment with lots of modern moviemaking flash but remaking a tv quickie Star Wars (which of course was collage of old movie and serial ideas to start with) ripoff from the late 70s on the cheap has to be a new low. As a general rule these remakes are awful.

[mhking]

[Shaking my head]...

I'm a long time SF fan, but this looks like a train-wreck waiting to happen. And like the proverbial train-wreck, I won't be able to tear myself away.

And, like most others, I have to ask, "SFC cancelled 'Farscape' for THIS?"

[Slainte]

In the new version, Olmos said, it's impossible to tell Cylons from humans, "which poses a tremendously difficult problem that's speaking directly to cloning, which we face in this world today."

OK, so maybe I'm the one with the lack of imagination here, but if you can't tell the humans from the Cylons, then how do the Cylons tell the Cylons from the humans? Where's the point of chasing someone haf way across the galaxy if in the end you're really not sure if he's on your side or the other side?

[zx2dragon]

I kept waiting to see how they would screw this up. Thanks for posting on how they managed to do it. I really wish someone with imagination would buy Sci Fi and make it back into a real sci fi channel. Just say no to Scare Tactics.

[Grampa Dave]

DUH, W H Y?

[Not Insane]

""[The new 'Galactica'] is more character-driven, which is exactly what 'American Family' is," Olmos said. "It's character-driven, not plot-driven.""

Character driven. That reminds me. I was a Star Trek fanatic as a kid. I watched the first "sneak preview" episode in 1966 about the salt sucking monster and was hooked.
When Star Trek The Next Generation came out, after watching a few episodes I said, "This is 'Star Trek' for women."

The original series was a western set in outer space. "Next Generation" was a soap opera set in outer space and WAY TOO PC. I quit watching after a few episodes and never went back.

Sounds like this new BG is the same sort of thing.

[Liberal Classic]