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   In article <%FQJp.42210$Vp.39933@newsfe14.iad>, "Joseph S. Powell, III"   
    wrote:   
      
   > "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   > news:your.name-1106111809460001@203-118-185-129.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz...   
   > > In article , brucegb@austin.rr.com (Bruce   
   > > Burden) wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> 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.   
   > >   
   > > After butchering the original Glen Larson series for ideas, the talentless   
   > > hack Ron Moore probably didn't have any real clue what to do.   
   >   
   > The original was, while admittedly entertaining in the same way one would   
   > watch old-school episodes of CHIPS or the Dukes of Hazzard, a 2-dimensional   
   > show aimed primarily at children; RDM's BSG was created for adults, in a   
   > more naturalistic style.   
      
      
   Things have names for a reason. "Battlestar Galactica" was created by Glen   
   Larson to be what it was (Star Wars for TV) and that's how the fans of it   
   liked it.   
      
   Ron Moore's "version" isn't and never will be "Battlestar Galactica" in   
   anything but stolen name. The simple fact is that it should have had a   
   different name, but most of the current generation in Hollyweird (as well   
   as the comic book and toy industries) haven't even got enough talent to   
   come up with a new name, let alone a new show.   
      
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