After forcing myself to sit through a second viewing of the miniseries today (just to reconfirm my impressions) I promptly popped Saga back in to the DVD player and found myself seeing no comparison between the two in terms of which is the better.
Would it have been nice if the whole three hours could have dealt solely with the Destruction and built its way to that? Certainly, but I think the negativity toward the Carillon subplot I've seen from some people is a bit overblown. One thing that helps is that the way the Casino sequence was edited down, you have to practically blink to see non-humans there and that helps make it seem less a copy of Star Wars and the Cantina sequence as some claim.
The real pity is that Ray Milland and Wilfrid Hyde-White didn't appear again in the series because they were by far the best actors to portray Council members, with none of the emptyheadedness that typifies the Council in episodes like "Greetings From Earth" and "Baltar's Escape."
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