I'm kinda optimistic if Martin Campbell is doing the pilot. Wouldn't it be great to have a good, actual sci-fi show on the sci-fi channel again? Battlestar Galactica really is such a bizarro anomaly in their programming quality.

By using a name people have heard they assume it's easier to market and there is obviously some truth to that as here we are talking about it.

Shame on us 

I certainly am in favor of creativity, but I also feel like there's no reason to let a clever idea lie fallow in favor of inventing new ideas that are probably crappy anyway. 20 years from now, someone will reboot Lost, for example, and then maybe it will make sense.

A lot of what happens even when people try to do something fresh is that they create a new property (Warehouse 13, Fringe, etc.) that is 80% a rehash of some older property (X-Files) but loses a lot of the flavor by trying to be different enough to disguise its inspiration. Maybe it finds its own way and ends up good on its own merits, but what's the point if it isn't really new anyway? Would Law & Order be different or worse if it were called Dragnet? Would House be substantively different if it were called Sherlock Holmes, MD?

There's really very little out there that is genuinely new and without a direct predecessor, and I'm not sure why there should be. All you need is three chords and the truth.

Last edited by Zarban (2012-08-24 20:44:58)

So long as they lose, I'll be happy. That was one of the fun parts of the show: this small band of rebels had no chance against the Federation, and let the audience know it.