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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1262573" data-attributes="member: 8704">Yes and hasn't that really turned out to be a disaster for the franchise as a whole? It's polarized the Star Trek community and ratings have been less than stellar for the show.  There really shouldn't be any suprise for these people that Galactica is getting hammered by this fan group, they have been getting hammered on the issue ever since the script leaked out last February. Sci Fi channel started editing out messageboard post of people wanting the old cast last March. Once again Sci Fi channel handled a public perception problem poorly. It really wouldn't of taken much to get these people to give the new show a shot and instead they alienated  and ignored them, the 18 to 25 year old demographic was more important than the shows actual long term fans.   How do you know a show more geared to the original would of lost money? There were three different projects in the works geared to a continuation story (Including the Tom DeSanto/Bryan Singer project that was the original Sci Fi miniseries project <a href="http://www.cylon.org/bsg/desanto-revival01.html" target="_blank">http://www.cylon.org/bsg/desanto-revival01.html</a>  and the Richard Hatch project: <a href="http://www.cylon.org/bsg/bsg-2come-01.html" target="_blank">http://www.cylon.org/bsg/bsg-2come-01.html</a> ). The new show managed to leave a large portion of the old fans behind and it remains to be seen how the ratings will go. It wasn't that bad (I didn't like it but I will give it that much) but there is no way of knowing how a continuation story would of done to say it would of been a failure the same goes for a remake of the original that wasn't a complete and total reimagining of the story. Myself I really wonder why they even bothered calling this Battlestar Galactica so much was changed it wouldn't of been that much of a stretch to change the names and a couple of ship designs and call it something else entirely.</blockquote>

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