On Aug 27, 2020, at 1:39 PM, Thomas RUX <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote:

The original was fun and I loved Dirk Benedict in just about everything he did (even the little known movie he was in where he played a 'Rambo' esque war veteran coming home to a harsh welcome). I liked Lorne Greene - his bearing and voice well portrayed a good leader character I think. And everyone loved Vipers, Raiders and the Galactica itself. Some of the disco moments and music do not improve the re-watching. And the episode with the devil (Iblis?) was a bit odd to my thinking. Did love the Eastern Alliance destroyers and the destroyer Captain they captured.

But let's talk about where that fell off the rails:
Battlestar Galactica 1980 anyone?

(Bleach for my minds-eye please!)
Darn you I had deleted that one from my memory now I'm going to have forget all over again.

My wife is quite tolerant, we recently wrapped up 40th Anniversary celebrations of the original BSG. In the case of the original BSG itself, we watched all 24 episodes exactly 40 years after they were originally shown. In the case of Galactica: 1980, we were off by an hour on a couple episodes thanks to work. Galactica: 1980 was pretty much just as bad as I remembered. Our daughter refused to take part in all the episodes, but our two sons willingly watched the original show, and suffered through the 1980 episodes. I think the boys would have quite willingly given up on the 1980 series, promises of the final episode kept them going.

I’ve always found it interesting that Buck Rogers also suffered a horrid partial second season that made no sense. Though I wasn’t anywhere near as big of a fan of the Buck Rogers TV series as I am the original BSD. That’s in part due to being a huge fan of the original Buck Rogers comic strips.