From: brucegb@austin.rr.com
Your Name wrote:
:
: "Better" is simply a matter of opinion.
:
I can't say either version is "better". They are too
different, and too widely seperated in time for me to say
I like one over the other.
:
: while if you like
: over-complicated / realistic sci-fi like Babylon 5, then the Ron Moore's
: "remake" is likely "better".
:
Well, perhaps the first couple of seasons. I really liked
B5 (well, aside from the final season on SciFi, because the
show was compromised when PETN decided to drop it, but be that
as it may...)
I really liked new Cattlecar Gallactica, until the New
Crapica arc. At that point, I felt that the writers/Moore Ron
had chucked the first two seasons out the airlock, and hit
the big red button. Once the Chief at. al. decided they were
cylons, I hit the eject button, and never went back.
My greatest complaint with the new Cattlecar was that the
"second tier" of characters, Bamber, Stackoff, Park, et. al,
were very inconsistently written, especially Bambers' character.
I, to this day, don't understand how you can insist you "have
an angle" (yes, cue Capitan Lincoln F. Sternn) when the writing
is so inconsistent for these important characters. It was
obvious (to me, at any rate) that there was no plan, and the
writers were making it up as they went along. Combine that
with the use of the big red button at New Crapica, and well,
what plan? More to the point, why bother?
The original Cattlecar was, well, what it was. I doubt I
could watch it today any more than I can stand to watch "Buck
Rogers in the 25th Century" today, Ms. Gray not withstanding.
Bruce
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