XPost: hactar.space-1999, alt.galactically.pointless   
   From: BillV2320@webtv.net   
      
   In hindsight with the new series someway behind us and all of its   
   offshoot options truncated, i think i can say i like the Original   
   better.   
   maybe it has nostalgia because i was only 14 when it debuted and scifi   
   of that magnitude was rare in theater OR TV in those days.   
   yeah, it had some corny stories and it didnt have the gritty 'real' feel   
   of the new, but i like it because it was more escapist fantasy and not   
   just a displaced post apocalypse set in space.   
   i kind of see that roland ð. moore sold his premise clothed in BSG   
   because it was much more likely to be picked up as a series if it had an   
   established name on it already, given the current climate of recycling   
   going on in hollywood. also he had a big basic framework already in   
   place. all he did was totally erase Larsaon's details and put his own in   
   there.   
   I would have like to seen moore's opus without it being piggybacked on   
   BSG backstory and character names.   
   it kind of turned BSG from a pleasant memory that was really only cared   
   about by its devotees and rebranded, hijacked actually, into a situation   
   in it will be the reimagined show that in the future will automatically   
   be called 'battlestar galactica' and the original will be little more   
   than a footnote held up to even more ridicule than it had gotten before   
   the new series even came out.   
      
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