By your command
Beth and I watched the new Battlestar Galactica this week on SciFi, and I have to say that I'm pretty impressed so far. I'd read some of the online reports beforehand about how they were "butchering" it, so my expectations were low. In hindsight, I should have probably realized that complaints about reworking something that - let's be honest - wasn't all that good to begin with were a bit misplaced.
It felt like a completely different, new and fresh series to me that happened to borrow just the bare minimum from the original series to share the name. Beth was most freaked out by the very butch and very female Starbuck, and I admit this change did seem gratuitous to me, but otherwise the series kept me in a suspended state of anticipation for nearly the entire 4 hours. I thought that Edward James Olmos owned as Adama, and I hope to see more of the new robotic Cylons than the brief glimpses we got at the start and end of the mini-series. The human Cylon thing was a neat take, although a part of me wonders if it was done primarily for budget reasons. I also appreciated the more mature take on the series, and I could see that it would benefit from not having to be censored. They did a good job of capturing the gritty nature of war, but I could see that they were running right up against the edge of what they could show on regular TV.
So anyway, bring on more SciFi - I'll watch 'em!
Comments
I used to love Battlestar Galactica when i was a kid. Big time. Now, as an adult, I've seen a couple episodes and quickly realized that the lens of childish enthusiasm clouded what, as an adult, became good judgment. To wit; the original series actually sucked. Hard. I'm glad they're taking some chances with the new one (I haven't seen it yet) because if they stuck to the original too closely they'd have suckage, squared.
Posted by: Corey Tamas | December 15, 2003 06:06 AM
Yeah, I was the same way. I thought the original was the coolest. When I saw reruns again on SciFi a year (make that yahren) or so ago, I discovered that either time or my memories had not been kind to the series.
Posted by: Brad Oliver | December 15, 2003 12:36 PM
I watched some of the first bit and so far I have noticed that in the future there is no such thing as foreplay. Anyone else notice that?
Posted by: Corey Tamas | December 17, 2003 07:35 AM