KenHonecker wrote:
While BSG the New might have been "better" that the original it wasn't as much "fun" and nothing I'd ever want to watch over again. Simply too many holes and no characters you could root for.

WOW.  Well said.

I did watch the new BG from the beginning, and was frankly amazed when, about 2 years in, I realized the writing was improving as it went. They were somehow managing to take these totally unlikable characters, and make them interesting, and have them slowly evolve into better human beings. At least... for awhile. I haven't seen the last season yet (and have gone to great lengths to avoid reading about it until I have a chance to do so), but just before my cable got cut off, it did seem the show was shooting itself in the foot. Don't you hate when that happens?

Last year, for the first time in over 30 years, I dug out my tapes of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and watched all 24 episodes in sequence from beginning to end. And I was astonished. Apart from the pilot (which had more problems than I like to even think about), I actually wound up ENJOYING almost every episode of the thing-- EVEN the "bad" ones! I think what really pushes the original show over is, an amazing cast of wonderful actors playing very likable characters.  And some of the writing really was inspired... even if it felt like it needed a little more work.

The real tragedy of BG is that ABC screwed the show over before, during, and after-the-fact. Them and the heavy-handed censorship of all US TV shows at the time.  The initial conception of the series got tampered with up-front, then ABC insisted it be a regular weekly when it was never designed to be, and finally, after it had gotten GOOD RATINGS despite all the odds agaist it, the network cancelled it because they decided, one year in, that it was "too expensive".  I guess they never thought how they were gonna make any of that money back if they cut it down BEFORE they managed to finish the big story, and have enough episodes for a decent syndication package.