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   In article <2q0lh6t5199utbr7ugg0dat13ccaajpgf6@4ax.com>, Dillon Pyron   
    wrote:   
      
   > [Default] Thus spake "Your Name" :   
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   > >"RT"  wrote in message   
   > >news:4D0DA1F7.928F088C@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   > >> Your Name wrote:   
   > >> > "RT"  wrote in message   
   > >> > news:4D0D8A91.36394DBA@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   > >> > > Your Name wrote:   
   > >> > > >   
   > >> > > > Proper "Battlestar Galactica" by Glen Larson was Star Wars for TV.   
   > >> > >   
   > >> > > OLD Battlestar Galactica. Space adventure stuff whose inspiration was   
   > >> > > Larson's Mormon scenario. It was ok.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > There's only one real "Battlestar Galactica" - the one by Glen Larson.   
   > >Names   
   > >> > are given to things for a reason. Creatingf something very different   
   > >> > re-using the same name is sheer idiocy and laziness.   
   > >>   
   > >> It was just above kiddie fare.   
   > >   
   > >The real "Battlestar Galactica"?? Of course it was, as I said it was "Star   
   > >Wars for TV", and Star Wars itself is aimed at kids - always was (despite   
   > >what some fools like to believe).   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >> > > > Ron Moore's barely recognisable "reimainged" rubbish is over-sexed,   
   > >> > > > over-realistic crap for perverted idiots.   
   > >> > >   
   > >> > > It was a post 9 11 cinema piece. People would not fall for a show done   
   > >> > > along the lines of the first one.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > Then why bother "remaking" it in the first place??   
   > >> >   
   > >> > Answer: The talentless morons in Hollyweird these days don't have any   
   > >ideas   
   > >> > of their own.   
   > >>   
   > >> And basing a scifi show on the 12 tribes of Israel is new?   
   > >   
   > >Maybe not, but at least Glen Larson had enough talent, common sense and   
   > >common decency to create his own name for the show ... unlike today's lazy,   
   > >talentless fools in Hollyweird.   
   >   
   > Isn't this the same Glen Larson who "signed up" for the series?  The   
   > one who got paid as a "consulting producer"? You and I can argue about   
   > WTF that title means, but I think we'll agree it's pretty lame.  He   
   > could have bailed at any time and proclaimed that, in his opinion, it   
   > sucked.   
   >   
   > Hatch tried to pitch his own "re-imaging" of BSG, which was   
   > essentially the same tripe as the original with a new cast.  You'll   
   > notice how many studios bought on to it.   
      
   Richard Hatch was too early and didn't have the "big name" that the studio   
   obviously wanted. Also his own touted series was utter rubbish ... he's   
   basically one of those many actors who think they can do everything in TV   
   / movie making, but actually can't.   
      
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