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   Ryan P. to Your Name   
   Re: Upcoming Battlestar Reboot   
   14 Apr 16 16:09:11   
   
   From: ryannewguy@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/13/2016 11:39 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , Ryan P.    
   > wrote:   
   >> On 4/12/2016 1:36 AM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> In article <570C2162.1.usenet_altbattl@livewirebbs.ddns.net>, Talwyn   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There is rumor of yet another Battlestar Galactica reboot... after all the   
   >>>> last reboot has already been 10 years ago (where has the time gone?)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Has anyone else heard of this?   
   >>>   
   >>> There is no other Battlestar Galactica reboot (yet), thank God!!   
   >>> Moore-Ron's one was complete crap, and they only get worse with each   
   >>> new version (just look at the continuous idiotic superhero reboots).   
   >>>   
   >>> There was a rumour a while back of a movie version that was stupidly   
   >>> going to be different to both existing versions. There was also a   
   >>> rumour of some insane movie that would somehow fit with *both*   
   >>> versions. Hopefully both of these silly ideas have been cancelled.   
   >>   
   >>    Well, originally Dirk Benedict was trying to get a movie funded that   
   >> was supposed to be a direct follow-up to the original series, right?   
   >>   
   >>    That could have been interesting with a decent budget and decent acting.   
   >   
   > I'm not sure about a Dirk Benedict movie. Glen Larson was trying to   
   > make a movie (rumoured to be a follow on or yet another version at   
   > different stages). Richard Hatch tried for years to get a follow-on   
   > series made.   
   >   
   > There was also the follow-on series by Bryan Singer, but he had to pull   
   > out and that's when Moore-Ron was brought in to ruin in.  :-(   
      
     You're right, it was Richard Hatch.  I believe he even got a trailer   
   or two produced.   
      
   >> If you're able to watch Ron Moore's version without trying to compare   
   >> it to the original, and if you pretend that its a standalone show, its   
   >> not bad at all.   
   >   
   > But since the morons gave it the same name, like all idiotic reboots,   
   > it's obviously not a "standalone show". If they had had the brains to   
   > give their very different version a different name, then you wouldn't   
   > have to pretend since it would be a standalone show.   
      
     No arguments there. :)   
      
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