As long as we're into thread drift...
The original series suffered from ABC pushing the creator into getting the series ready for the very next season's airing, after the original 3 hour movie. Larson wanted at least a year to write up some decent stories but ABC wouldn't have it, hence the ripoffs of
Force 10 From Navarone and
Shane in various episodes (remember Richard Hatch going against "Red Eye" in a suspiciously Western-looking town?).
I remember the Galactica 1980 debacle and the lost Starbuck episode. The episode was to explain how "Dr. Zee," a prescient albino-looking child, came to be among the fleet. He was the child Starbuck sent into space in a "life pod" made of his Viper cockpit and a Cylon engine.
The current series is interesting but I hate the camera work--this
cinema verite fad has got to die out; it ruined
The Bourne Supremacy-- especially the fight scene--for me. It sort of works in the CGI sequences, as it sort of did in
Babylon 5's, but in live sequences I think it sucks.
I also question how the current Starbuck could survive against hard vacuum, having only plugged the hole in the Cylon ship with her flight jacket.
Unfortunately I didn't pay attention to the knife. Hopefully the show will hit its stride (for me), otherwise I probably won't last the rest of the season.
Babylon 5's reputation as the best SF show of the past 3 decades thus far remains untouched, IMO.
I also remember
UFO--its first run in the States was 1972, when I was a mere stripling. It's available on DVD, but having seen a revival of it in '88 or so on local PBS, I found it didn't stand up. Glad to say 1999 came and went without chicks in purple wigs and guys still running around in Nehru jackets, as
UFO predicted we would, but I'm bummed about the lack of gull-wing doors on cars.
