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[Hitch]

Originally Posted by ApK

I agree. I own the original series on DVD but I rarely watch it.
I think the reboot, at least the first two seasons, is some of the best TV SF writing there is, and visually and stylistically, it certainly paved the way for shows like The Expanse. I've been watching it with my son recently.


Attached is Starbuck and Starbuck at Starbuck's.

Ah, Dirk. Speaking again as an appreciator of the male form....and I really liked Katee in Longmire, as long as I could abide watching it. (Incredibly stoopid errors about living in the West, Wyoming, etc. that just made it unwatchable.)

Hitch

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ApK

Attached is Starbuck and Starbuck at Starbuck's.

I hope Howard Schultz bought them each a car for that picture.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Ah, Dirk. Speaking again as an appreciator of the male form....

One thing that I find rather humourous is that your posting about being an appreciator of the male form has received no negative feedback.

In another Internet group I post in on and off, one male poster stated his appreciation for the female form using a quote from Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers. Evidently "No doubt a gentleman wart hog feels the same way about a lady wart hog—but, if so, both of us are very sincere." was proof that he was at the least misogynistic and at worst proven to be an abuser. At the very least, I suspect the poster who called him misogynistic was unaware of what the word means. A fine example of a dogpile.

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by Pajamaman

I'm not sure that I agree as such, but I think I know what you are trying to say.

I'm thinking particularly of Netflix. I find most of the shows...very sameish. Nothing stands out about most of them. The acting and scripts are formulaic. So yes, I would say they are generic, and yes, people like to watch them.

At the same time, those same viewers probably enjoy something a bit more distinctive, creative, original, better, and yes, less generic. For example, Stranger Things was a big hit. And I like Lucifer because of the main actor is so stand out and refreshing. The scripts are varying in quality, but it's the main actor that makes it above average.

It's the same with music, I think. It's hard to find non-generic music. The singers and songs sound similar, at least to me. But others like it. Yes, from my perspective at least, they do like generic stuff. Personally, it bores me to tears. The same with books.

It's the lightning in the bottle, as the movie-makers call it, and the reason computers cannot write good music or books.

Oh, I'm sure that quite a few of the same people might like something a bit more distinctive. My original point is that like with books, different people are looking for different things and the same person can be looking for some of this and some of that.

I know what you mean about music.

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Of course I'm aware. I'm acerbic.

Where on earth do people get the notion that the world should be populated entirely with fluffy-bunnies?

So why do you think that the world should be populated by people who just take what you dish out without push back? If you act like a jerk, you get treated like a jerk even if you think you are being clever.

[pwalker8]

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.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Yes. So that would make you one of those people that enjoyed the show when it originally aired, as I mentioned. And now it is part of your nostalgia.

It's not nostalgia. It's just that the original BSG is better then NuBSG.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's not nostalgia. It's just that the original BSG is better then NuBSG.

Impossible for you to know. Unless Young You can go back and unwatch the original when you first saw it and then watch both for the first time as an adult.

There's no shame in nostalgia clouding your judgement, it would be odder if it didn't. When you see/read something for the first time has a huge impact on how you're going to judge future projects based on that something.

I loved BSG as a kid. I never watched the remake because I loved BSG as a kid. That hasn't stopped me from rewatching parts of the original and realizing just how cheesy and awful it really was. Ben Cartwright in space dishing out fatherly advice?? C'mon.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by DNSB

One thing that I find rather humourous is that your posting about being an appreciator of the male form has received no negative feedback.

In another Internet group I post in on and off, one male poster stated his appreciation for the female form using a quote from Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers. Evidently "No doubt a gentleman wart hog feels the same way about a lady wart hog—but, if so, both of us are very sincere." was proof that he was at the least misogynistic and at worst proven to be an abuser. At the very least, I suspect the poster who called him misogynistic was unaware of what the word means. A fine example of a dogpile.

Actually, I've been waiting for it. {shrug}. I mean, in today's world, gadzooks, to actually admit aloud that you like some other person's physical attributes is practically an invite to a prison sentence or worse. (smile)

I think--I hope--that people know I mean it in a admiring way. I mean, sports fans, after all, where would the species be, if we weren't attracted to each other in a reproductive way? Zoiks!

Hitch

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

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.

The original Battlestar Galactica wasn't intended to be camp. For that sort of thing, I prefer the first season of the follow-up series: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. That was a show that knew exactly what it was.

Interestingly, in the second season of that series, Glen A Larson turned that into something Battlestar adjacent. It also lost most of what I liked. But hey, they kept Erin Gray.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The original Battlestar Galactica wasn't intended to be camp. For that sort of thing, I prefer the first season of the follow-up series: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. That was a show that knew exactly what it was.

Interestingly, in the second season of that series, Glen A Larson turned that into something Battlestar adjacent. It also lost most of what I liked. But hey, they kept Erin Gray.

I loved BRi25th Century. And yes, it was wild camp and to like it, you had to have a tolerance and liking for camp. AND YES, the 2nd season was lousy, but Erin was great.

Hitch

[JSWolf]

If you really want camp,try Manimal and Automan.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If you really want camp,try Manimal and Automan.

OMG, Manimal was hilarious. I don't think I remember Automan. (Musta put my feet up on that one....)

Hitch

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

So why do you think that the world should be populated by people who just take what you dish out without push back? If you act like a jerk, you get treated like a jerk even if you think you are being clever.

Ya bore me.

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Ya bore me.

Then why do you keep responding and taking shots? Yea, I get that it hurts your ego to have someone point out that rather than being the wit you think you are, you are just being a jerk.