[GOPsterinMA]

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.

[Le Chien Rouge]

I was a kid when the original was on - I LOVED it...Granted, there are hot women on the new version, no doubt, but that’s the only thing the new has over the old.

...Jane Seymour, Laurette Spang ,and Maren Jensen were pretty damn hot ......

[Sudetenland]

Dirk defined the role of Starbuck. He had the perfect combination of joie de vivre, "flyboy" mentality with the sangfroid of a combat pilot.

The single worst aspect of the new version was the substitution of a dike-like "uber-woman." Pure Hollywood BS feminism with a hint of GLBT thrown in.

Of all the cast in the original, admittedly banal and cheesy series, Dirk stood out with his interpretation of Starbuck.

BTW there were some fine women in the original series, Maren Jensen and Laurette Spang come to mind (not Ann Lockhart though). I like Edward James Olmos better than Lorne Green, but Lorne had the duel role of military and spiritual leader.

Basically I liked most of the original...could have done without Boxy and the robot dog though.

[FreeAtlanta]

Special effects have come a long way. This doesn’t make up for story writing. The old stories were better.

[Oztrich Boy]

Could the Originals have been gayer?

[ReformationFan]

“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.

[wku man]

The original BSG was a kids' show. The new series is an adult (and by that I mean for grown-ups, not porn) sci-fi drama series that is well-written, well-produced, well-acted, and with incredible effects. Oh yeah, and Starbuck, aka Katee Sackhof, is hotter than all get-out!

Then again, so are all of the female cast members...I'd rather have Laura Roslin as our president than Obamanation!

But I digress. the original BSG started with a great story line that went nowhere. The current series has taken that great beginning and has turned it into a compelling series. Granted, it has to end some time, but it will be a cliffhanger until the very end, I have no doubt.

Yeah, Dirk Benedict did a great job portraying a swashbuckling, swaggering comic book version of a fighter jock in the original series. But comparing the two series, as well as the two Starbucks, is apples and oranges. This new series is the best fiction show TV, now that Jericho has gone away.

Yeah, I'm a fan. Katee, call me!

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