Re: Battlestar Galactica
TOS is no longer on TV other than occasional reruns on Scifi or Space. This discussion board is about the Frakking awesome new BSG that is a show for grownups, not that cockamamie kids' show that TOS was.
I liked TOS when I was a 10 year old kid, but Ronald D Moore took the original concept and gave it a deeper storyline and an edgier plot. The current series has won critical acclaim, while TOS is treated like a joke. The current series has been able to do a lot more while TOS was left high and dry.
What I find amazing is that RDM was able to even take elements of that lame Galactica 1980 show (the humanoid Cylons) and use them so much more effectively, without all the cheeseball overdramatics of TOS.
As someone that loved the original series as a kid, when RDM came out with the new series, I kept on running into all the TOSers that were griping and moaning about it not being a continuation of the original series, while I was just plain glad that the concept was back with the name of that great ship.
After the miniseries, I was blown away and said "Dang it! This is what the show SHOULD HAVE BEEN back in 1978!" The more realisitic struggle of survival in space and fleeing from the Cylons without the disco planet and the 1970s shampoo commercial hair was spot on, in my opinion.
Even Richard Hatch was won over by Ronald D Moore and he's enjoying new life in his career as the Machiavellian Tom Zarek. Tom Zarek is WAY COOLER than that Captain Clean-Apollo character who was too sickeningly noble for his own good. Kudos to Richard Hatch for being open to RDM's vision, unlike Dirk Benedict who (after his meeting with Katie Sackhoff at a Starbuck's Coffee for commentary on the Miniseries DVD) has been a total @$$hole and wrote really unflattering comments on the new BSG on his website.
The TOSers need to get it through their thick skulls that they're not going to get their continuation because RDM's BSG has surpassed TOS in number of episodes, fan following, critical acclaim and quality of production. It's 2006, not 1978. Grow the heck up already!!!
