Did NOT age well...


As good as the SyFy series was...I still prefer the original

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Love the original. I still have the very first episode on DVD. It's a classic!

The problem with the original BSG was that they never got daring with the writing, never explored the characters more, never really explored the Cylons in detail. They missed those opportunities but I imagine that had more to do with television culture in the late 70's and how networks limited creativity.

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True.

I remember reading articles about the show in junior high and they said the show’s main failing was the writers didn’t know what the hell to write so they wrote stories from old westerns.

Often the cast would be ready to roll and the writers changed their lines an hour ago forcing them to read off cue cards.

But I’ll never forget my crush, Anne Lockhart...

My sweet, doe-eyed, brunette crush....

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Yeh, those stories were always SO cool right up to when Starbuck lands on some planet. Then it's suddenly some 'boring, old, over-used trope' instead of 'an exciting, interesting space story'.

As a kid, I guess the only thing you really see in a show like this is 'lasers, explosions, robots, spaceships, the launch sequence, the great musics and light effects, robots, vocoder sounds, space battles' and in the other series 'Extra-Terrestrial tech vs. primitive Earth tech-conflicts that create funny situations'.

Honestly, the only moment I really remembered in detail, besides the flying motorbikes, was the kid exclaiming how the pizza tastes exactly like Galactica's floor. I didn't know eating spaceship's floors is going to be a future pastime, but it seemed funny to me at the time.

It's funny, how these 'aimed at kids' shows went from 'grand epic spacemagic' to 'more mundane talking car, but still some cool tech' to 'a guy knows how to apply chemistry lessons from school'.

The 'magical' feel shrunk every time until there was nothing left.

This show still feels a bit magical and exciting, atmospherically and conceptually speaking. The concept is epic, the scale is massive, and it feels like anything can happen in such an interesting setting. A car that's grounded on one planet is such a smaller scale, it's almost disappointing (but who didn't love K.I.T.T. as a kid..?), it's more personal but the 'epicness' was gone.

Then we get just some guy that knows how to create chemical reactions for diversion so they can escape some desert prison. Then... nothing.

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