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It's actually rather good.
Being an SF-obsessed 8/9/10-year-old, I watched pretty much all of the original, but I wasn't much of a fan - even at that age, the whole seventies-US-ian-"family"-viewing-ness of it drove me up the wall. As for Larson's endless recycling of effects footage... (It was a good shot the first time, but I really didn't need to see it another 47 times to prove it)
Ahem. I digress.
While there are numerous nods to the original (spot the blueprints of old cylon centurions, Basestars in the museum, et cetera) it's a gigantic cosmic reset. Several of the lead characters have familiar names, plus the odd characteristic (e.g. Starbuck's cigars) and the plot is vaguely the same as the original pilot (the cylons attack the twelve colonies) but that's about it. Almost everything else has changed, mostly for the better.
It's not perfect - things move quite slowly, there are a few clichés flying around, and they're blatantly laying groundwork for a series to follow - but it works. They put together a pretty good script, hired some decent actors, and fitted it all togther well.
I'd be much happier seeing a US network back a full season of this than Yet Another Extruded-Trek-Product. I'd probably even watch a few episodes to see what happens next...
It's actually rather good.
Being an SF-obsessed 8/9/10-year-old, I watched pretty much all of the original, but I wasn't much of a fan - even at that age, the whole seventies-US-ian-"family"-viewing-ness of it drove me up the wall. As for Larson's endless recycling of effects footage... (It was a good shot the first time, but I really didn't need to see it another 47 times to prove it)
Ahem. I digress.
While there are numerous nods to the original (spot the blueprints of old cylon centurions, Basestars in the museum, et cetera) it's a gigantic cosmic reset. Several of the lead characters have familiar names, plus the odd characteristic (e.g. Starbuck's cigars) and the plot is vaguely the same as the original pilot (the cylons attack the twelve colonies) but that's about it. Almost everything else has changed, mostly for the better.
It's not perfect - things move quite slowly, there are a few clichés flying around, and they're blatantly laying groundwork for a series to follow - but it works. They put together a pretty good script, hired some decent actors, and fitted it all togther well.
I'd be much happier seeing a US network back a full season of this than Yet Another Extruded-Trek-Product. I'd probably even watch a few episodes to see what happens next...