Here’s the problem. People suggest animated alternatives because that gives you the one thing that using the real actors can’t. You can make a series that deals with all of the original characters in the original setting. To go with Hatch as Apollo and so on, you have to concede the need to cast a younger generation of actors as well as including some recognizable stars to draw audiences (maybe as Baltar or Cain). With an animated version you don’t have to do any of that. You can have every single one of the surviving original cast come back to do the voices for their animated alternatives. Plus the story can pick up anywhere. You aren’t forced to set it 25 years later and be burdened with a mountain of exposition to catch the audience back up.
An animated version frees you from all of the restrictions that having to cast semi-retired actors with virtually no name recognition create. For voice over work, they don’t need to be recognizable or in shape or even still acting.
I understand, that in the best-case scenario, we would get the continuation with the real actors in the flesh, but look at it as a business decision. If you’re the head of a major studio and you are given these two options, which one has less risk and more potential return? A big expensive science fiction movie where in half of the cast are former TV stars from the 70s and 80s, or an animated movie free to explore to the Galactica universe in any way at anytime without requiring that the audience have seen the original show?
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