I was Just Thinking

[LadyImmortal]

I had this thought:

The remake of Battlestar Galactica is, in my eyes, the Abomination. Hated, Despised, and not worth my effort to even watch.

But are there other shows out there that'd give me the same reaction?

I'm not sure that there are. I can think of maybe one, or two, that I'd get this heated about. MacGyver being one. Highlander being another. (At least Highlander the series didn't do away with Connor MacLeod - and the movies already did away with the previous 'prize).

And I've seen 'remakes' of shows that didn't totally destroy the whole premise of the original. Or heck, remakes of movies.

I wonder why it is I get so hot under the collar about BG when I probably wouldn't about something else...

I know the reason - BG was the show I grew up on. Maybe it only lasted a year but it made a vivid impact on my twelve-year-old mind when it was on and opened me up to imagination - and writing - which are things I love to do. If it hadn't been for BG I don't know that I would have found out that I love to write!

I'm not sure what point I'm making - my thoughts ramble along.

Like others I'm going to focus on the positive things I can do. Continue to send in support for a continuation. Continue to come up with ideas to get our points across - and to reactive the love for the show that I have in others who may have had it - and forgot.

Granted I'm not sure how to do some of this - but it's something for thought =).

--Rhonda

[tracyb144]

Rhonda,

The same goes for alot of other fans of different shows that are being "remade". You're not alone in your thinking.

For example, the "Starsky and Hutch" fans are getting a remake with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. I hear David Soul's not too keen on the idea. "The A-Team" is another one that was supposed to be in the works for a remake with Mel Gibson as "Hannibal" and Brendan Frasier as "Face" ( not quite sure how Dirk feels about that particular casting choice, but I know he's not too thrilled about where this version was supposed to go ).

Now these shows, BSG included, all date back to the mid 70s to the mid 80's. Back then it was a whole different generation watching and falling in love with these shows.
If Ron Moore had any sense at all, he would have made his show and called it something else. Because that's exactly what it is...something else.

Even the trekkies wouldn't have been too pleased if ST:TMP had brought back the originals, only this time Kirk was a girl and Spock did laps around the warp core in a speedo. They did it right, they brought back the originals and they segued into a new series with newer faces. Keeping the original in tact.

This whole BSG thing is like Michael Jackson. They took a perfectly good show, that still had great potential, and butchered it beyond recognition of what was before.

There aren't even splinters of the original left in Moore's fiasco.
Thank the Lords I don't get the Scifi Channel.

Tracy
*who's going to Galacticon to celebrate the REAL BSG ;) *

[Stevew]

The operative words"call it something else" at least we would not get stuck with this lemon
:(

[LadyImmortal]

Great points, Tracy, very good.

I'd heard about the new A-Team (wasn't sure if it was really being made or not). That's another show I'd care about how they did - the first was so classic - I'd hate to see it being destroyed by going in a direction it should never go in.

It was like what the Mission Impossible Movies did - the first one especially - essentially destroy the series by making the good guys bad guys...

Blech.

--Rhonda

[Muffit]

Lady and Tracy,

You do make a valuable point. You touch on the memories of things good and wonderful and how Hollywood can take even that away.

Thank God for VHS and DVD.

:muffit:

[AlphaNova]

I'm a big fan of Sliders. Sliders was a show that got remade while it was still on the air. Several times, in fact.

First they made the biggest mistake they ever could have made and canned John Rhys Davies. The show became a series about hunting down his killer. Then the next season Sabrina Lloyd got canned, and it became a series about trying to find the homeworld of a group of alien like monsters called Kromaggs, in order to free their own homeworld from said creatures. Finally, in the last season star Jerry O'Connell left and it had practically no premise at all. The four characters had very little connection to each other.

I hate to think about what they are doing to Galactica. Totally unnecessary. I've heard no excuse for not doing a continuation that really made any sense. Stars too old? Combine the original cast with new people. Backstory too confusing? Really! How about Star Wars, Star Trek, or any other science fiction movie or series.

The executives at SciFi just messed up, plain and simple. They threw away any chance they had at getting fans of TOS to watch this mini-series. What a waste of 16 million bucks.