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.
I was a kid when the original was on - I LOVED it...Granted, there are hot women on the new version, no doubt, but thats the only thing the new has over the old.
...Jane Seymour, Laurette Spang ,and Maren Jensen were pretty damn hot ......
Special effects have come a long way. This doesn’t make up for story writing. The old stories were better.
“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 thats 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.
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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