I loved the original Battlestar Galactica. It was great. But it's now like 25 years old. I can sympathize with the fans. . . well wait. . . . no I can't.
I've not actually seen the new one, but I did read the new producers comments about why he did what he did, and I must say, I think his vision is a bit more brilliant for todays times. I think it speaks better than the old one. I guess I'm no loyalist to the original, it stands fine in it's own right, but hey, it's all fiction anyway, let's get over it.
The original is kind of -campy- now. I'm sure the new one has got to be more exciting, at least it sure sounds that way on the web site.
The one thing that struck me the most, was the return of Edward James Olmos to the sci-fi arena. His last outing was in Blade Runner, which is kind of a cult flick in itself. The thing though that struck me about that, is that BG parallels BR in an interesting way. In BR, we have -replicants- which are human created -humans-, in BG, we have -cylons- which are human created -humans-, or at least that's the way I read it from the web site. In each, there is now the internal human moral dilema of creating -yourself- and having to destroy that creating. It's almost like we are saying once again we shouldn't play God, we have no experience with it, and it's only likely to lead to our undoing.
So give us an impression, for those of us without cable, satellite or a normal technology life.
