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Message: <blockquote data-quote="edemaitre" data-source="post: 3091157" data-attributes="member: 3372">More on "Battlestar Galactica"I'm a little disappointed to see some genre entertainment fans again using differences of opinion as an excuse for personal attacks. However, I think both sides make good points. As someone who has watched all of "Battlestar Galactica" (both the original 1970s campy space opera and the SciFi Channel's current revisionist military drama), I enjoy the current series for what it is and am occasionally annoyed for what it is not. It's not fair, however, to dismiss potential fans who are turned off by early melodrama, a certain style or tone, or plot holes and thus don't continue to watch something. To each his or her own.I agree with the poster who noted that the necessities of television (and frankly, any) drama mean that you'll always have bridge officers ("Star Trek" starship captains and BSG CAGs) going down to planets to make mistakes that they somehow survive and hopefully learn from. I also agree that the newer show did improve as it hit its stride, although it's more derivative (see the original BSG, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "Space: Above and Beyond," or "Firefly/Serenity") than producer Ron Moore and hardcore fans may acknowledge. Most sci-fi programs take a while for the actors and writers to make the characters interesting.Back to the original question, if you liked the "more realistic" darker tone of "Babylon 5" or some of "Farscape" and are willing to overlook some illogical behavior on the part of the human (and Cylon) protagonists, you'll probably enjoy the newer BSG. I do feel that for a rag-tag fleet of 50,000 people and dwindling, the lack of martial law or military discipline, the distracting use of 21st century Earth fashions (spiked heels? neckties?), acceptance of a clearly neurotic (if not psychotic) president, some heavy-handed political allegory, and the clear dominance of the enemy in logistical and technological terms means that the show is more about the question "Are we worthy to survive?" than "How will these humans survive?" May the lords of Kobol protect us...</blockquote>

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