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Originally Posted by antelope526
Great post. It surmised many of the frustrations you can have when talking with someone who doesn't like the mini. Most of the abominations they say happened never did.
On the sex the most we saw was one bare back. Yesterday I saw more of Alissa Milano on a rerun of Charmed where she was a mermaid.
The famous "handjob" scene in the mini was about as bad as the diner scene with Meg Ryan in "When Harry met Sally".
There are actually more minority characters in the mini than in TOS.
The weak female argumant seems to blow right past President Roslin.
Those who hate the arrogant female Starbuck forget how Sheba was introduced to us.
Those who hate President Roslin forget Siress Tinia.
No baby was showed killed in the mini. The first day or two after the mini aired there were even threads that asked whether the baby was really killed. Some people watched it and couldn't tell.
Only one person was actually SHOWN killed in the mini and he was a cylon. The lasar shot to Serena in TOS and her ensuing agony was far worse. Letting your children watch a show where the only child they can identify with gets to see his mother die is not exactly family viewing.
There are a bunch of things I don't like about the mini especially in areas dealing with Kara Thrace and COL Tigh but I don't need to imagine things are worse than they are.
If you think the story sucks that's fine but you don't need to invent things that never happened.
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Nice misdirection, antelope. It still does not provide any insight, though, as to why some of those items were even necessary.
But then, again, I'm one of those supposedly 'stuck-in-the70s' types who thinks that the original concept and overall storyline was just fine and was very much deserving of being continued, not re-written.
