And yeah, just how boring would that be? Television today is all serialised and separate story episodes are a thing of the past! The special effects are all CGI, no more beautiful model work which is why shows like this were that good! If they start again from scratch then some of the characters will be altered to the point of frustration while it will take four episodes in before the moon departs from the earth and we'll have hours of stuff that would fit better in a soap opera than a sci-fi action show!!! Martin Landau, Barry Morse are no longer with us so if they go for a continuation there are going to be none of the original cast in the show at all with hours of the main actress going on about how her Father was Commander Koenig and stuff and we'll get hours of how they grow crops in the moonbase and recycle everything! The original BSG was miles better than the remake and this will be the same I'm sure! Why don't they go out and come up with something of a more original idea?
JB
Worse, Space 2999999 or whatever might be Earth-centric, very much sappy soap opera as you'd mentioned (what happened to adventure and action and exploring some unknowns and to draw us into
their world?), where everyone in the area of the planet that can see it looks up and sees the moon get splodied out of the orbit and then everyone spazzes out and there are floods and famine and big destruction. In which case give us "All That Glisters" and the rest of season 2's horrible hijinks remastered in glorious 16K instead, and for real futureproofing.
The original BSG (1978) was cheesy and hokey in spots, and cliche of course, but it did feel more like a proper epic exodus. Despite losing its way halfway through, I'm not convinced the only reason the show was axed was because the ratings for the money spent were "insufficient". The ratings
were good, especially for sci-fi given the era. I still laugh over the retcon between BSG's theatrical movie and TV premiere, but Colicos is a marvelous actor and makes villainy seem more natural and engaging. Was quite good in TOS's episode too as Kor.
I won't mention season 2 (Galactica 1980) much as that feels like a big mishandled mess, of which only "The Return of Starbuck" had any strength as a story and the Halloween episode (which is the genesis of "Human Cylon", a fairly great idea for the context of G1980) squanders every morsel of idea put to it. But hey, it's a kid show with Wolfman Jack howling with more corn than on fifty sets' worth of Hee-Haw... can't scare the 9 year-olds to the makeshift bathroom in their pants, now can we...
Moore's version gets a number of things right in the TV show (let's ignore the awful pilot but I'm happy they made an actual show because of the ratings regardless), though halfway into season 2 it starts to falter and never exactly recovers, despite Richard Hatch stealing the show with his newly introduced character. Where am I going with this? The need to make Cylons a human creation a la Dr Frankenstein's monster turning on its creator wasn't necessary. The allegory of "big scary monster" was suitable and even with the cheese, there's something about what the 1978 BSG's premiere about trapping the surviving humans to eat them all (glorified spider web allegory but to a more literal level) is still pretty frightening.
The modelwork for late-70s TV is impressive, thanks to the influence of Star Wars beyond the Big Screen experience. It made BSG more iconic in a way, but only superficially. The episodes I've rewatched remain good because of the characterization and plot. Lorne Greene was inspired casting... actually, the whole cast was chosen rather well. Hatch and Benedict make a terrific double-act, as do Greene and Carter.
