Re: Battlestar Galactica Director Talks!!!

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:05:04 GMT, Hank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:18:15 -0500, Spin Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>enlightened me with:
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>>Starbuck is a woman now... that's all I needed to know.
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>>That tack is so old. Take a character that is pure masculininity and
>>feminize him. How daring.
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>>Maybe it will be good, but to be honest the original concept and
>>execution wasn't so flawed that it needed any drastic changing.
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>>I've been watching the original show and it's actually damn good for a
>>TV show.
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>>It only got canned because it cost too much to make, it had very good
>>ratings.
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>>Spinwit
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>       And rather politically daring for its day.   Post-VietNam
>distrust of the military combined with Carter-generated malaise in
>general made this revolutionary for its time.  "You mean the evil guys
>can't be trusted???"   Good luck getting that concept by Peter
>Jennings today without a smirk.

You must be joking. The daring aspect of the show was that it showed
the military as being correct and the peace-makers being wrong.

It was a conservative/republican view.

Peter Jennings? Who cares about him?

Stale bread.


Spinwit

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