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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 2623738" data-attributes="member: 149">If it's an updating or remake of an older series then it is. The old show was loved and influential for a reason. Changes have to be made, since obviously it isn't the same time, place or even actors, but if you change things they at least should be for the better or some reason. If an orange soda is marketed as new and improved, I don't expect the flavor to be grape.The original Kolchak was a frumpy wrinkled old bachelor reporter just trying to get by. Now he's this young, hansome (he played Lestat in Queen of the Dammed), married (well his wife did die), crusader for truth and justice. None of these changes seem to have been made for reasons other than you can't have anyone on TV who couldn't win a modeling competition and to steal ideas from The Fugitive and X-Files.The new Battlestar Galactica is probably the best example I've seen of how to take the elements of an old show and work it into something new, different and better. The character of the president was one of the major changes, but it at least adds something to things and the conflict between the military and civilian authorities has given a lot of depth and interest to the plots. By contrast the Gabriele Union? character seems to have been provided solely so there's a hot woman on the show and to play Sculley to Kolchak's Mulder. Ah, Minor SpoilerOne of the best moments in the original series for me was when Kolchak was trying to track down and kill a Rackhasha, which would appear as the person the victim trusted the most. Kolchak of course as a grizzled old reporter trusted no one. So he was thrown for a loop when he ran into the secretary for the office (who was the Rackasha in disguise) and realized perhaps he wasn't quite so cynical and distrustful after all. It was a great use of a secondary character. I just don't see that kind of imagination behind any of the characters or the plot.</blockquote>

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