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Post by starforge on Mar 28, 2016 11:57:15 GMT -5
I've been peeking at both series and their respective offshoots again the past couple months, and I think it's safe to say I'll never tire of the reimagining's depth, charm, and brilliance, just as I'll never tire of the cringe-inducing kitsch and lameness of the original incarnation. Though the writing of the newest series does take a rather sad plunge, I've always wished I had a bit more of it to savor, The Plan and Blood and Chrome aside.
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Mar 28, 2016 12:29:31 GMT -5
Aside from the occasional "Black Market", the slight dip in the back half of season 3, and the last 2-3 minutes of the series finale, I regard the reimagining as largely flawless (TV movies notwithstanding). Phenomenal show. Haven't had the chance to explore the original.
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Post by starforge on Mar 28, 2016 12:33:09 GMT -5
Aside from the occasional "Black Market", the slight dip in the back half of season 3, and the last 2-3 minutes of the series finale, I regard the reimagining as largely flawless (TV movies notwithstanding). Phenomenal show. Haven't had the chance to explore the original. Black Market was one I rewatched earlier this week. Garbage, but hilarious in a sad sort of way. Like Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down. A total failure in the writer's room. The original is cheesy, hammy, low-budget space adventure you'll either love or love to hate, honestly. It's incredible the re-imagining was born from such basic source material. |
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Mar 28, 2016 13:44:59 GMT -5
Aside from the occasional "Black Market", the slight dip in the back half of season 3, and the last 2-3 minutes of the series finale, I regard the reimagining as largely flawless (TV movies notwithstanding). Phenomenal show. Haven't had the chance to explore the original. Black Market was one I rewatched earlier this week. Garbage, but hilarious in a sad sort of way. Like Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down. A total failure in the writer's room.. Oh man, agree to disagree on Tigh Me Up. I love that episode, especially in the context of it being RDM's middle finger to SyFy for asking for a more lighthearted episode of the show. Plus I'm a big fan of Ellen. |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Mar 28, 2016 20:36:06 GMT -5
The original series has a sort of charm as being about the closest thing to a TV equivalent to Star Wars - by which I mean the 1977 film; the 1978 series rather deliberately lifts a lot of influences from that film and has similar design and SFX sensibilities; also the whole fliers in spacecraft stuff. I was never a huge fan of it by any means - I really like the design of the show most of all - but I liked that aspect (this and the opportunity to see more of John Colicos hamming it up as a bad guy, as he had on Star Trek.)
The remake - for all its faults - was one of the best genre series of the last decade; and I see more through the prism of Ron D. Moore working out his issues with his long tenure as a Star Trek writer in the form of a prestige drama (LOOK MA, IN MY SHOW THEY SMOKE! A LOT!), but, you know, in a really good way.
And Colonel Tigh was the goddamn man.
(I kind of like Caprica. We will not speak of 1980.)
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Post by starforge on Mar 29, 2016 23:10:32 GMT -5
(I kind of like Caprica. We will not speak of 1980.) But what about space children playing the baseballs? |
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Mar 31, 2016 14:16:35 GMT -5
 I choose to believe Patrick Macnee walked onto the set like this and the costumers just went with it. |
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