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Old February 12th, 2004, 01:41 PM   #8
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I know this isn't popular but the only reason this show or any similar show was remade was because the cost of special effects have dropped dramatically in the past 25 years, the amount of money you can make in syndication on reruns has risen dramatically since 1978, and the wages of actors on cable today is lower in real dollars than actors on prime time on the only three networks 25 years ago. Also there have been successful Scifi space operas on cable that started with 0 fan base (Babylon 5 is the best example).

As such Battlestar was not that risky since it has a known fan base and I don't mean the hard core web posters like ourselves. The biggest issue Battlestar has is that it's last incarnation, BSG1980 (the first "continuation") was a financial disaster and makes no money in syndication.

If you are willing to be a little open minded and not get hung up on names a case can be made that we are getting a real TOS continuation with the new Moore series. Think about how TOS ended (and a few good things from BSG1980) and then consider this:

TOS Adama = Moore Adama
TOS Siress Tinia = Moore President Roslin
TOS Apollo = Moore Apollo
TOS Starbuck = Moore Tyrol or BSG1980 Marooned Starbuck = No Moore Starbuck
TOS Sheba = Moore Starbuck
TOS Athena = Moore Boomer
TOS Cassiopeia = Moore Callie
TOS Rigel = Moore Duella
TOS Boomer = Moore Roslin's Secretary
TOS Tigh = Moore Tigh
TOS Boxey (Serena dead) = Moore Boxey (mother dead)

Moore's series potential that are end of season TOS plots:

Starbuck/Cassie/Athena love triangle (winding down with Athena losing lines and camara time) = Tyrol/Boomer/Callie love triangle (The spice is back!)
Adama/Tinia relationship = Adama/Roslin relationship
Apollo/Sheba relationship = Apollo/Starbuck relationship
TOS Boomer/Rigel were both undeveloped supporting characters = Duella/President Secretary both may get their own story lines this time.

Human-cylons: This comes straight out of BSG1980 and was among the few story ideas that seemed interesting.

Baltar: At the end of TOS there was little ability to use his character because he was on the prison barge. In the current version the mini "freed" his character for use in a new series.

Cylon 6 is a feminized version of Baltars cylon sidekick Lucifer in TOS.

No male roles were changed to females! They changed the names as a marketing ploy to enrage the hard core purist (1% or less of the target market) and guarantee word of mouth advertising. It worked brillantly! No racial minority roles were lost. TOS had 2 supporting actors that were minorities both African Americans. Moore has two racial minorities one African American and one Asian both of whom probably will get more notice and plot developement than the minorities in TOS.

We have the continuation but many fans just can't let go of Hatch, Desanto, or the "female" Starbuck to see it.

If they would have made an exact duplicate of Saga of a Star World we would have had little to look forward to because you know how it turned out. In addition although Saga was good for the first half even most TOS only fans did not like the whole casino planet, Carillon part which is almost a third of the original. That part had to be remade.

What did we get in the mini: The first half of Saga of A Star World with major character developement taken from "In Harm's Way" and the Carillon part eliminated and replaced with the Gavavutu engagement that ended "In Harm's Way". As a stand alone alone movie I would pick the mini over Saga of A Star World. If I was the writer however I would have spliced Saga of A Star World right up until after Adama was on Caprica and then attached on the mini jump to Ragnar until the So Say We All Ending. The best of both!

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