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   In article <4DFEAF1F.D8B23BC5@hotmMOVEail.com>, RT   
    wrote:   
      
   > Your Name wrote:   
   > > In article <%FQJp.42210$Vp.39933@newsfe14.iad>, "Joseph S. Powell, III"   
   > >  wrote:   
   > > > "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   > > > > 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.   
   >   
   > They apparently liked it for only one season...   
      
   Yep, "they" being the management morons and bean counters. The actual fans   
   liked it, but as usual the morons in charge were too bust chasing the   
   almighty $ to fill their own pockets and beleiving the misinformation   
   supplied by the likes of Nielsen.   
      
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