From: BillV2320@webtv.net   
      
   Re: At last, my take on 'new vs. old BSG'.   
      
   Group: alt.battlestar-galactica Date: Sat, Jul 7, 2012, 2:55am (EDT+8)   
   From: drclu@swbell.net (Clu)   
   The below statement summarizes why I have not invested the time to watch   
   the entire reimagined Battlestar Galactica.   
   I appreciate the efforts that went into making such a series, and how in   
   the end the series seems to expand the original story, and even elements   
   of Galactica 1980 and what was planned into the multiple seasons the   
   reimagined got in the end.   
   No, I don't think the classic series has been reduced to a curiosity.   
   Campy possibly, but a mere curiosity?   
   Well I guess the best way to put it is both universes were bleak, dark,   
   and horrific in what happened. Both touch on similar problems and   
   obstacles.   
   I remember in the classic series how Adama tells Athena of how he was   
   passing out lottery tickets to those that would go, leaving behind those   
   that did not get a lottery ticket.   A very dark description told in a   
   narrative. Told in passing.   In the reimagined this would not have   
   been left to the imagination but shown in gory detail for like 25   
   minutes of the show, while in the classic series it is touched on for 2   
   minutes.   
   Reimagined focuses on how human kind is replaceable, and how everyone   
   has a breaking point.   The show in the end shows that we are no more   
   than machines ourselves, and how the problems they faced were created by   
   mankind.   
   Classic focuses on how we are more than machines, brought about and   
   guided by a higher power.   We did not create the problem that   
   attacked humanity, sometimes life just happens and life is not fair. But   
   in the end humanity can overcome and maintain dignity in the process.   
   While both series have their similarities, I think I prefer the focus of   
   the classic series personally.   
   Jubal   
   On 5/7/12 12:05 AM, The Saltex Brujo wrote:   
   But, i think they could have told the story of the New BSG in a series   
   where they could have invented their OWN universe without hijacking The   
   Battlestar Galactica   
      
   yeah, the new BSG was very depressing and bleak and while it did have a   
   'higher power' angle. their 'God' was a cruel and capricious one: making   
   humans and cylons suffer holocaust, humiliation, cruelty and ever   
   damning them that their legacy was violence and murder, but holding out   
   that humanity was "savable'.   
   plus i never really liked the mandala wheel approach to events: the   
   'what happened before will happen again' schtick.   
   I preferred the Original BSG approach that the phase of conflict that   
   pitted colonial vs. cylon was just a phase of an ongoing battle going on   
   between 'good and evil' at different levels of technology and   
   physiospiritual development.   
   BSGC [BSG Classic] was also far more hopeful than the new series. Lorne   
   Greene's Adama had a steadfast vision and loyalty to his Deities and   
   wasnt the surly atheist pragmatist of olmos's portrayal. Plus i likjed   
   the ambience and 'feel' of BSGC.   
   the new is just a contemporary story transferred into space to sell to a   
   scifi audience.   
      
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