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   "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   news:yourname-1511111812110001@203-118-185-238.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz...   
   > In article <4EC1BCD8.532B7AEB@hotmMOVEail.com>, RT   
   >  wrote:   
   >> Your Name wrote:   
   >> > In article <4EB37831.86AAB8F3@hotmMOVEail.com>, RT   
   >> >  wrote:   
   >> > > Clu wrote:   
   >> > > > Joseph S Powell III:   
   >> > > > Re-imagining BSG was not actually Moore's idea - he had pitched a   
   >> > > > space   
   >> > > > drama show, but the execs pushed the idea of a BSG redo.   
   >> > > >   
   >> > > > Your Name:   
   >> > > > > 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.   
   >> > > >   
   >> > > > It's obvious that Moore has talent.   I am one of those classic BSG   
   >> > > > fans   
   >> > > > that love the unique style of the show, and to me BSG was one of a   
   >> > > > kind.   
   >> > > >   
   >> > > > New BSG to me was one fun show in one sense.  Always keeping you   
   >> > > > wondering who not to trust next to the point even the writers did   
   >> > > > not   
   >> > > > know.  :)   I REALLY try to see the characters as Bill, Lee, and   
   >> > > > Kara   
   >> > > > rather than Adama, Apollo and Starbuck.   
   >> > > >   
   >> > > > Seriously, Moore had the talent to make a show stand on it's own,   
   >> > > > and   
   >> > > > many times I really wish he had been given that chance.   
   >> > > >   
   >> > > > Because of the old name on this new idea, it's hard for me to fully   
   >> > > > embrace.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > The concept grew up from the kiddie show version.   
   >> >   
   >> > Why did it have to?!?!?!?! It's a TV show!!! No doubt you expect a   
   >> > "grown   
   >> > up" version of Barney and Sesame Street in a few years time too. The   
   >> > idea   
   >>   
   >> Was Sesame Street or Bedrock attacked and wiped out by aliens? Evidently   
   >> you consider the old BSG to be pre-school fare...   
   >   
   > Not pre-school, but the original Battlestar Galactica was aimed at kids,   
   > just like the Star Wars movie is was basically created to cash-in on.   
   >   
   > But that's largely irrelveant to the point - why should an established TV   
   > show, movie, book, etc. "grow up" because the original fans supposedly   
   > grew up?!?! It's moronically insane to think they should.   
      
   It's moronically insane to think that everybody should think alike.  Don't   
   blow a gasket over this.   
      
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