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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I would say that the only people who enjoy the original Battlestar Galactica more than the remake are people who enjoyed the show when it originally ran/when the viewer was much younger.
I couldn't imagine any adult (since I assume that is what all posters here are) who had never seen either series before, watching a few episodes of each preferring the original over the reboot (unless they were enjoying the original as camp).
I'm not especially a fan of either. I watched the original when it was new and I was under ten. I have fond memories. But then I caught a couple of episodes more recently. Like a rewatch of The Dukes of Hazzard, the nostalgia quickly fell away.
The remake, I watched for a few seasons before I drifted away. I just don't tend to care for long, episodic content. But it is clearly far superior to the show it was based on.
The Peabody Awards, the Emmys, Time magazine, the Television Critics Association, The New York Times, Rotten Tomatoes, Rolling Stone, IMDb and likely any other place that has a review of either series seem to concur.
But Dirk Benedict hated the relaunch. So there's that  |
By an odd coincidence, I saw the General Lee on a trailer yesterday morning when I was going to breakfast, complete with people with their phones out taking pictures. No idea if it was one of the originals, or if it was a replica that someone had made. Yea, Dukes of Hazard was never one of my favorites, but you couldn't have been a southern during the time period without watching at least one episode.
Of course, the original Battlestar G was camp, that was part of the fun of sitting in a dorm watching it with a group of college students. I have the DVD of the original series and will occasionally pull it out and watch an episode or two when I'm in the right mood. Good camp is actually hard to pull off. But hey, I like slap stick and Mel Brooks as well.