It's thoughtful of you to ask! I'm not sure that you'll want all the details of the answer. Maybe stop here? :-)
--- When it first premiered on SciFi, I didn't get the channel, and this was a bit before streaming. My best friend enjoyed the initial miniseries run and sent it to me on from-TV VHS. I intended to watch it... I really did... but I somehow bumped into some unpleasant fans of the new series, on LJ, thinking themselves quite clever for denigrating the original series, and, much worse, mocking Dirk Benedict's (the original Starbuck's) health troubles. I felt that I wanted to stay as far from these people as possible, and at the time, that included their show.
Time went on, and by then I'd learned that none of the women characters from the original series had made it into the new series, not in any incarnation. I told my best friend that as soon as one of the original women characters got a reincarnation of some sort, I'd consider watching the new series.
Time went on, and my friend stopped watching herself. It got rape-y, she said. That was the end.
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It's thoughtful of you to ask! I'm not sure that you'll want all the details of the answer. Maybe stop here? :-)
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When it first premiered on SciFi, I didn't get the channel, and this was a bit before streaming. My best friend enjoyed the initial miniseries run and sent it to me on from-TV VHS. I intended to watch it... I really did... but I somehow bumped into some unpleasant fans of the new series, on LJ, thinking themselves quite clever for denigrating the original series, and, much worse, mocking Dirk Benedict's (the original Starbuck's) health troubles. I felt that I wanted to stay as far from these people as possible, and at the time, that included their show.
Time went on, and by then I'd learned that none of the women characters from the original series had made it into the new series, not in any incarnation. I told my best friend that as soon as one of the original women characters got a reincarnation of some sort, I'd consider watching the new series.
Time went on, and my friend stopped watching herself. It got rape-y, she said. That was the end.