"BG has gone from strength to strength. Who'd have thought it, for a remake of such a camp piece o'crap. I went in with EXCEEDINGLY low expectations. Maybe that's the secret."
From the channel that has The Flintstones, Passions, Braveheart & soon Law & Order. c'mon..........
BSG has lost a large percent of its viewers, gone are it's halcyon days when it was a remake of the original series everyone remembers. Especially Ron Moore and David Eick who used the fans of the original series to foster a bogus "in spite of" TOS fans that this new production bravely faced down.
Indeed they where never a factor in the re-imagining of BSG. Only Katie 'Starbuck' has used TOS fandom and the comparison between Dirk Benedict's Starbuck to her very lacking acting inadequacies, than Ron Moore still does to foster a nonexesistant fan feud. The ratings have gone from 2.6 Mini-series down to mere 1.6 for the last ten episodes of season 2.5.
Somehow The Scifi Channel decided to reinforce the mediocre BSG with a prequel? This means one or both of the Stargate series is to be canceled. The Farscape fans did not flock to Stargate-SG1 after Ben Browder and next season new regular Claudia Black, maybe they did? Stargate-SG1 is getting about the same ratings as Farscape.
On IESN I noticed Tom DeSanto damned Ron Moore's version of BSG with faint praise. His version after Bryan Singer left has been plagiarized by Moore & Eick. As have the titles to several original series episodes created by Glen A. Larson been taken but any resemblance to the original was cast out. Larson's BSG was slightly conservative, the new series like Hollywood is way left of center.
The critical acclaim from U of Georgia's Peabody Awards used to mean something when CBS's Harvest of Shame, Civil Rights documentaries and brave southern local news that interviewed Dr. King, when a Peabody really meant something.
Now unless you have a second rate show of a niche cable channel, the public relations department could care less. Except, The Scifi Channel is showing "second rate show of a niche cable channel". Indeed not only are they riding the rating of BSG into oblivion they are tacking on a prequel.
Anyone notice BSB is already lower in the rating than Enterprise?
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"BG has gone from strength to strength. Who'd have thought it, for a remake of such a camp piece o'crap. I went in with EXCEEDINGLY low expectations. Maybe that's the secret." From the channel that has The Flintstones, Passions, Braveheart & soon Law & Order. c'mon.......... BSG has lost a large percent of its viewers, gone are it's halcyon days when it was a remake of the original series everyone remembers. Especially Ron Moore and David Eick who used the fans of the original series to foster a bogus "in spite of" TOS fans that this new production bravely faced down. Indeed they where never a factor in the re-imagining of BSG. Only Katie 'Starbuck' has used TOS fandom and the comparison between Dirk Benedict's Starbuck to her very lacking acting inadequacies, than Ron Moore still does to foster a nonexesistant fan feud. The ratings have gone from 2.6 Mini-series down to mere 1.6 for the last ten episodes of season 2.5. Somehow The Scifi Channel decided to reinforce the mediocre BSG with a prequel? This means one or both of the Stargate series is to be canceled. The Farscape fans did not flock to Stargate-SG1 after Ben Browder and next season new regular Claudia Black, maybe they did? Stargate-SG1 is getting about the same ratings as Farscape. On IESN I noticed Tom DeSanto damned Ron Moore's version of BSG with faint praise. His version after Bryan Singer left has been plagiarized by Moore & Eick. As have the titles to several original series episodes created by Glen A. Larson been taken but any resemblance to the original was cast out. Larson's BSG was slightly conservative, the new series like Hollywood is way left of center. The critical acclaim from U of Georgia's Peabody Awards used to mean something when CBS's Harvest of Shame, Civil Rights documentaries and brave southern local news that interviewed Dr. King, when a Peabody really meant something. Now unless you have a second rate show of a niche cable channel, the public relations department could care less. Except, The Scifi Channel is showing "second rate show of a niche cable channel". Indeed not only are they riding the rating of BSG into oblivion they are tacking on a prequel. Anyone notice BSB is already lower in the rating than Enterprise?