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Edited on Fri Nov-28-03 04:48 AM by BareKnuckledLiberal
I don't see how that would be possible.
The original Battlestar Galactica was as shoddy a piece of right-wing dog-and-pony propaganda as has ever been trotted out before the viewing public, only to noisily relieve itself on camera. Not even the Day After "answer", Amerika, was as bad as Battlestar Galactica.
For those who may have suppressed the traumatic memory, Amerika was premised on a Communist takeover of America after the eeeevil United Nations passed a resolution condemning the USA for having too few black talk-show hosts. First, the name of the country was made more fontetik, then Chris Kristofferson went around the country leading the Common People in illicit recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance (you know, the one that goes, Aye plegliay im floggum ... in Starch Wreck), and finally some TV private eye is put in charge of one of the new countries the USA was broken into, but only after a dastardly terrorist attack on the Congress. Yes, Ben Stein is said to have suggsted the idea first, but it wasn't made with his now-legendary money, was it?
How will this be better? Will Starbuckette (or Starbucket) still smoke cigars to prove to the world how insouciant s/he is? Will the Cylons still have eyes that oscillate like automobile reflectors duct-taped to the blades on a ceiling fan? Will BG still have cutsey made-up words like "daggett" for "god" and "frack" for "intercourse"? And the Winsome Women of Battlestar Galactica -- will they still have over-feathered Farrah Fawcett hair?
Though personally, I do applaud Glen Larson for casting so many starlets with large derriéres at a time in history when the breast ruled men's imaginations with an iron hand. (Or nipple. Or whatever.) Bubblebutt Galactica would have been a great spin-off. Yo, props, Glenmaster-L! Peace out, y'all!
And most important -- will this Battlestar Galactica also fall through a "time warp" and emerge over the Earth in 1980? If they know what's good for them, they can aim for a few years earlier and appear on Match Game '77, to the delight of the irony-simple. And let's not forget Pumping Iron: The Galactica Years.
The new Battlestar Galactica has just gotta be better. It's just gotta. Because nothing could ever be as bad as the original.
Of course, we all said that about President Bush in 1992, didn't we?
--bkl Watch it? Of COURSE I'll watch it!
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