According to the Sci-fi channel Battlestar Galactica is coming back as a new series.
It was amusing at times, but overall it is the absolute archetype of silly 80’s cheeze fest sci-fi. Are we so bereft of new ideas we have to go digging in the creative trash barrel to retrieve old “B” quality sci-fi plots for series? What is the logic behind all this. I can’t seem to make sense of it.
DING!! DING!!! DING!!! We have a winner!
There’s plenty of sci-fi literature that COULD be adapted for TV or movies, but the Sci-Fi Channel (AKA “Killer of Shows”) decided to play it safe and go with a “sure thing.”
Battlestar Galactica is only supposed to be a mini-series, but they are hoping to make it into a new series. If it makes it, rest assured that Sci-Fi will manage to destroy it.
A new “Cattlecar Galaxative” series?
My appalled-o-meter just fried again.
Apparently the Sci Fi channel thought the anguished yells of “They dumped Farscape and they’re keeping/buying/remaking/making a series of what?!” were dying down, and wanted to fuel the anger again.
They can’t really win with this one, can they? If you hated the 80s show, you’ll be turned off from the name and if you liked the old show you’ll be turned off by all the changes.
They have the rights, and the name has brand recognition, which means an automatic “market share” of ratings. SciFi doesn’t have to compete with the major letter networks for viewers, they are happy with a fraction of the viewers.
Besides, as bad as it was, there’s a chance this incarnation could be better…
*shudders contemplating anything worse * 
The problem is, the fans will hate it - it’s not a continuation like Star Trek: The Next Generation was, which keeps the canon of the original series (more or less) and follows on with more of the same only better.
It’s a “re-imagining”.
i.e. They have changed everything the fans liked about it, and made basically the same show with updated soap operatic teen-angsty storylines.
If it wasn’t bad enough that Starbuck is now a woman, they’ve changed something so fundamentally cool about the original series so that nobody will like it: the Cylons aren’t robots anymore, they’re basically indistinguishable from humans!
Argh!
Or at least, I’m pretty sure that’s what they did. Maybe they wised up in-between-times and corrected that. Hope so.
Galactica 1980 perhaps?
Well…that will certainly alleviate some of the sexual tension between Starbuck and Apollo that permiated the original sieries.
Ahh…that takes me back to a simpler time before sophisticated killer cyborgs from the future and AI machines imprisoning humans in VR worlds to use as batteries. Back to the days of the stiff lurching shiny metal robot yelling DESTROY… THE… HUMANOIDS!!!
Because with the likes of Babylon 5, the various treks , stargate sg1 there is a market for this type of series however niche it may be.
Galactica was an established franchise ,and duplicating it would be no biggie, while I dont like the idea of starbuck being a call name now , especially when its a woman, I and probably a shit load more people are going to watch it anyways , good or bad.
I may be pleasantly surprised,or I may cringe the entire time , but I shall be watching it ,lol.
Declan
I was about to say that I am probably one of the only intended audience for this thing, having rather liked the first season of the original. (and being interested to see what better actors could do with it).
But… Starbuck is a woman??? To heck with THAT.
I think that when they were looking at the series to do a reprise of it , they were probably horrified at what social evils the original series.
Smoking cigars
Manly colonial warriors
Women that with the exception of serina and athena , were pretty much limited to the exploited bimbo or distressed woman role.
Very few persons of color , colonel tigh and boomer, no others that i can remember
Frequent use of swearing , Frack and Flegercarb, hmm, what were they anagoulous too.
So time to revamp and bring it up to acceptable social norms as ascribed by minpax.
Declan
I can imagine one reason they are restarting the series, is that the original one was all about reaching Earth. Since they apparently got to Earth in 1980, a true continuation would have been less about crossing the vast expanse of space, and more about the Battlestar near Earth. (Wonder if anyone has ever wondered if they ever made themselves known to humans in the past 23 years? And surely the Cylons would have made themselves known to Earth by then!)
But guessing that Sci-Fi wanted to return to the original concept, rather than attempting V, it all makes sense to restart. The alternative would be stories taking place before Galactica 1980, and knowing who makes it to Earth, would take some of the excitement out of it. (Part of the reason Enterprise isn’t quite as exciting, being set in the past of the franchise.)
“Listen, Starbitch! I’m not gonna take any lip from you!”
“Shut up, Ass-pollo! I can do anything I want!”
(they embrace, much kissing ensues)
Battlestar Galactica was a show I always wanted to be cool. But it never was. Now, it has a second chance. I’ll watch.
Ah, piffle, Miller, Galactica was cool
Although nobody can replace Dirk Benedict, imho, ymmv…
Oh and I hope they use the old cylons, they looked great back then and I still think they’d look good today. Plus, the colonial uniforms looked better than the Startrek uniforms, again imho. I for one am looking forward to a remake 
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
(Insert obligatory “but if they want to revive a dead TV series, why not Firefly?” quote here)
Well, I’ll watch the BG remake. When I saw the promo with one of the fighters being unveiled, I couldn’t help but giggle.
But of course, I’m a bit brain-damaged. I’m also waiting impatiently for the big-screen, live-action version of Thunderbirds that’s been promised.
Hey , they could have decided to redo buck rogers in the 25 century.
Declan
…or Space: 1999.
[shudder]