[Reaper]

Originally Posted by 137th Gebirg

• Hire GOOD writers - maybe Joss Whedon or Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad). People that know how to write character-driven stories without getting wrapped around the axle with minutia.
• DO NOT hire Bryan Singer. He has had his chance and failed epically. He's teased the fanbase and pulled out far too many times to be treated seriously. The second-to-last time, pulling out in favor of a "Munsters" reboot sealed his fate (at least with me) and gave everyone a good idea of his "priorities". Tom DeSanto, maybe, but NEVER Singer.
• Hire GOOD scientific advisers. Understand what "light speed" really means, relativistically. No more confusing of terms like "universe", "galaxy" and "star system". Such things imply nothing more than lazy writing and an unwillingness to understand the reality of cosmology. Rationalizing it away by wanting it to come from the mouths of non-Earth Humans is a bullsh!t cop-out. If this were true, they would have invented new terms for them, like yahrens for years, centons for minutes, etc. Instead it just sounds brain-dead and continues to minimize the property as nothing more than a "cheesy kids show". Hell, there are third graders who know the difference between these things. Adult writers of science fiction should have these distinctions tattooed under their bloody eyelids!
• The CG artists who did NuBSG should be re-used. I know there are a lot of "GINO" haters here, but that should be pointed solely at the show-runners. Plus, that show is done - time to let it go and move on. The VFX they did in that show under Gary Hutzel and Doug Drexler was stunning and the talent should be reused, without question. They are clearly fans of the original, as they even took many opportunities to insert nods towards TOS in hundreds of scenes throughout the series (and Caprica and Blood & Chrome) and, in particular, Cylon designs. My only caveat would be to stop the shaky-cam cinema verite nonsense. It's not trendy or edgy and it only severs to give people headaches struggling to follow the action. Live action footage should mandate this as well.
• And yes, of course, hire all the original cast who are willing (and still alive) to participate and fill in the gaps with a "new generation", where needed. Boxey as an adult plus offspring from Starbuck and Cass should also be added. Funny how, prior to the existence of NuBSG, I always envisioned Starbuck's daughter to look and behave exactly like Katie Sackhoff did, emotional baggage and all, just with longer hair.
• The return of Commander Cain - played by JEFF Bridges. He can do it - he's even starting to look more like his dad now-a-days, and he's not afraid to pick up genre work like this as an actor. Beau Bridges would also work as a secondary - also a veteran of sci-fi genre shows and film.
• Make the show more realistic than the original without making it a weekly fate-is-going-to-kick-these-people-in-the-balls show like NuBSG. A healthy medium between the two would be good and, again, serve to move it away from the kiddie label. Give the characters hard and realistic challenges but also give them a more tangible and solid reward for surmounting the odds. That's why God invented the denouement!

None of this, of course, will ever happen. But it is nice to dream...

BRAVO!! This, EXACTLY this, nothing but this!!!!