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   Wouter Valentijn to Your Name   
   Re: The original Battlestar Galactica se   
   06 Feb 11 16:41:20   
   
   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
   > "Yousuf Khan"  wrote in message   
   > news:4d45bb11$1@news.bnb-lp.com...   
   >> On 26/01/2011 12:45 AM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> "Yousuf Khan"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:4d3fa49a@news.bnb-lp.com...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The original Battlestar Galactica series bible   
   >>>   
   >>> The grammar of that sentence is miselading. Ron Moore's version is   
   >>> not the "original" Battlestar Galactica series, and despite what   
   >>> the morons at SciFi or SyFy (or whatever silly name they ahve this   
   >>> week) Ron Moore's show is not an original series either. It would   
   >>> have been more easily understood if it had left out the word   
   >>> "original".   
   >>   
   >> I guess they meant it as original in the sense that it was the   
   >> original series from which Caprica came from.   
   >   
   > Nope. SciFi / SyFy have a bad habit of calling the shows they make   
   > "original" simply because they make them rather than buy them from   
   > elsewhere.   
      
   True.   
      
   >   
   > There's a similar stupidity here in New Zealand where a show is not   
   > labelled as a "rerun" when it's played on one network, even though it   
   > has already played on another network.   
      
   That's because they want to ignore the existence of other networks. :-)   
      
      
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   Wouter Valentijn www.j3v.net   
      
   http://www.nksf.scifics.com/startrek.html   
      
   http://www.zeppodunsel.blogspot.com/  (NKSF TV Tips Blog)   
      
   Giles: "I'd like to test that theory."   
   'Buffy the Vampire Slayer 6x21: Two To Go.'   
      
   liam=mail   
      
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