Moore’s Battlestar Galactica Honors Larson’s Original
Posted by admin on 01 Aug 2011 under UncategorizedRoger Moore’s annoucnement of a re-imagined Battlestar Galactica made many fans of the original series cringe. The show made several errors. The most prominent mistake was changing Starbuck’s gender, but the problems ran deeper. The re-imagined series has men creating the Cylons, rather than a now extinct lizard race. Although thee re-imagined Battlestar Galactica made many key errors in the universe creation, it also got many things right.
It shows a people shaken by the events of what happened. It shows the paranoia the survivors of a genocide might display. The new series serves as a dark commentary on the war on terror. The Cylons serve as the enemy within working behind the shadows to destroy the human way of life. Because the re-imagined show came out a few years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, this is not a coincidence. The user can watch the new show and have a rough idea what happened in the old.
Fans of the old show do not know what to think of the character of Gaius Baltar. He’s still a largely incompetent villain, but in the new series, he’s on board the Galactica. You never know if he really is still a Cylon agent or if his hallucinations are simply part of his guilt for allowing the Cylons access to the Colonial defense network.
Moore kept the Vipers, the Galactica design and many of the names of the ships that were in the original series the same. He toned down the Mormon religious themes to make it appeal to a broader audience.
