I trust your opinion! And many other people I care about and respect (starting with my best friend, at least up to the point when she stopped watching; and my father, all the way to cancellation) agree with you about the new BSG.
It's on my mental someday-watchlist, with Babylon 5 and Orphan Black.
But, yes, this isn't quite the same as having scope in one's imagination for all the different incarnations of Sherlock Holmes or Superman or King Arthur. This is deliberately more... overriding.
>"I don't think any of the new women are even remote equivalents of the female characters in the original series"
I've heard that Siress Tinia, the sole woman member of the Council of Twelve in the original series, may be extremely loosely construed as a kind of forerunner of the president in the new series, insofar as they're both thorns in Adama's side about civilian oversight. ~shrug~ That's it, as far as I know.
(Or... did they ever name Adama's deceased wife? Because she has a name and a face in the original. I suppose that could be a connection! Feeble, but...)
It's not that I watched the original for the women characters, but that I've loved the original all around since I was arguably too young to be watching it at all. Reincarnating Adama, Apollo, Zac, Starbuck, Boomer, Baltar and goodness knows all which other male characters, while not including even the slightest passing nod to any of Serina, Cassiopeia, Athena, Sheba or even Rigel feels disrespectful to the wholeness of the original series.
(It is only fair to acknowledge that the original series had tremendous offscreen TPTB troubles with its women characters. ABC censors made them change the direction of the Cassiopeia character three episodes in; Jane Seymour had a contractual misunderstanding, so they had to kill off the Serina character five episodes in; and the Athena actress had personal problems to the point that they had to minimize her character down to barely recurring, when she had been intended as one of the leads. The new PTB may have felt it would be verging on "The Scottish Play" unlucky to go near any of that. But that's on the other side of the screen. On this side of the screen, the original story held those characters in its heart.)
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It's on my mental someday-watchlist, with Babylon 5 and Orphan Black.
But, yes, this isn't quite the same as having scope in one's imagination for all the different incarnations of Sherlock Holmes or Superman or King Arthur. This is deliberately more... overriding.
>"I don't think any of the new women are even remote equivalents of the female characters in the original series"
I've heard that Siress Tinia, the sole woman member of the Council of Twelve in the original series, may be extremely loosely construed as a kind of forerunner of the president in the new series, insofar as they're both thorns in Adama's side about civilian oversight. ~shrug~ That's it, as far as I know.
(Or... did they ever name Adama's deceased wife? Because she has a name and a face in the original. I suppose that could be a connection! Feeble, but...)
It's not that I watched the original for the women characters, but that I've loved the original all around since I was arguably too young to be watching it at all. Reincarnating Adama, Apollo, Zac, Starbuck, Boomer, Baltar and goodness knows all which other male characters, while not including even the slightest passing nod to any of Serina, Cassiopeia, Athena, Sheba or even Rigel feels disrespectful to the wholeness of the original series.
(It is only fair to acknowledge that the original series had tremendous offscreen TPTB troubles with its women characters. ABC censors made them change the direction of the Cassiopeia character three episodes in; Jane Seymour had a contractual misunderstanding, so they had to kill off the Serina character five episodes in; and the Athena actress had personal problems to the point that they had to minimize her character down to barely recurring, when she had been intended as one of the leads. The new PTB may have felt it would be verging on "The Scottish Play" unlucky to go near any of that. But that's on the other side of the screen. On this side of the screen, the original story held those characters in its heart.)