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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3223167" data-attributes="member: 14159">Oh, further exposition then:Battlestar Galactica (Old): Space Opera from 1978, released in the wave of Sci-Fi that came after Star Wars (Lucas tried to sue saying BSG was a copyright violation, but it was thrown out, he was essentially trying to copyright the entire space opera genre).  Based on a late 60's draft script called "Adam's Ark" (Note how Adama is Adam with an "a" on the end, the Adam thing is intentional), but nobody in show business wanted to make it until Star Wars hit big and there was a rush for Sci-Fi scripts.  The show had a lot of parallels to Mormon theology (the creator is a member of the LDS church), some of which survive vestigially to new BSG.  Late in the show, a devil named "Count Iblis" appeared to try and tempt the Colonials, while angelic "Beings of Light" appear and ressurect Apollo after he gets killed and then give the Colonials the exact coordinates of Earth.Galactica 1980: Spinoff/followup series made in 1980 instead of making a second season of Galactica.  To cut costs they had Galactica find Earth, but it was woefully unprepared for the Cylon menace, so a handful of Galactica personell stay on Earth to try and quietly help Earth get ready by giving Earth scientists Colonial technology, while the fleet leaves and stays on the run in Earth's general part of the Galaxy to distract the Cylons and act as backup if needed.   It was hated because it was really, really cheesy (and had some significant continuity problems with the original BSG).  Examples of cheese included Colonials having superhuman strength because apparently on Galactica and the colonies and everywhere else but Earth the gravity is really heavy, so they can super-jump if they need to on Earth.  Or, despite having to sneak around physically on the regular series, apparently now they have personal cloaking devices, so on Earth they can touch a button on their wristwatch, fade to invisible, and sneak around, and it was the generic A-Team/Knight Rider mold of wandering around Northern California getting into adventures in small towns and helping good-hearted local folks out (while being on the run from The Man, since the US Air Force wants to capture the Colonials as extraterrestrials), occcasionally flashing to the Galactica and very occasionally dealing with Cylons.  Continuity problems included saying the show was set in 1980, but it takes place 30 years after the regular series (i.e. Regular BSG happening circa 1950), but in one episode of BSG they intercept transmissions of the Apollo 11 moon landing from Earth.  The creator of original BSG has said if he ever revisits the setting with any project, Galactica 1980 is definitely non-canonical.</blockquote>

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