Re: Happy 40th Galactica 1980!
I'm not convinced that G80 ever would have worked. I went through Larson's first draft script which had Apollo, Starbuck and Baltar in place of Dillon, Troy and Xaviar and it really doesn't read much better than what got on the air (Baltar incredibly has been pardoned and restored to a position of political power!). Much of the lame fish-out-of-water comedy we saw is coming out of the mouths of Apollo and Starbuck and that just doesn't ring true to either of them. If anything, seeing Apollo, Starbuck and Baltar doing this stuff would have probably tainted the legacy of the original more whereas the way G80 was done, it was so easy to dismiss as something that never happened.
The one key difference is that the time travel jaunting with Baltar as the one being pursued was going to be the grabber, and Larson's first draft had them preparing to chase him to 44 BC rather than World War II.
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