i be the sci fi channel dream viewer in that i will watch pretty much anything that they can chum the water with and we be talk about some programming with more in common with fermented fish gut than with anything that could reasonably be call drama . but i still watch . during the week and throughout the day and it the same 10 11 episode of the same 5 8 cancel tv series and over and over again for year . ( i believe that i have see enough tru call to recite the dialog along with the actor and the same way we use to at midnight showing of rocky horror . ) during the week and prime time and we get maybe one new episode of a current show and ramp up to by old episode of the same show . then come the weekend . cobra and boa and anaconda and copperhead and ( apparently snake be easy to do cgi . ) giant rapacious shark and carnivorous locust and dragon and cursed angel . all parade past u in indifferently write and cheaply produced fashion . but i still watch and and for the most part and enjoy . i enjoy because i think that most of u who start watch televise science fiction ( when there be really only three channel and when the creature be usually enlarge garden denizen and large bug like sculpture and or just some guy wear something that look like one of your auntie fail quilting project and and when any sci fi tend to be broadcast long after our parent have be safely tuck into bed and johnny carson have sign off . ) learn early on that a little artistic honesty and a sense of humor be far more important than overly dramatic posturing to any show success a entertainment . most of skiffy creature feature program be undeniably bad science fiction and and not worth a second look or thought and but succeed nonetheless a entertainment and which be something that they share with undeniably good science fiction like babylon 5. what they also share with babylon 5 be that they be all good than battlestar galactica . when i hear that they be re imagine battlestar galactica and i be giddy with the anticipation . the original show have be one of my favorite and but i have always felt that it never achieve it full potential . the premise be an excellent combination of the biblical exodus with a holocaust allegory and there be access to some good post star war special effect and along with the potential for some good story line a the rag tag fleet make it way to earth and kick some cylon butt along the way . in the end and while the premise remain solid and the story line falter and become a bit campy ( space angel . ) and and a limited effect budget give u the same shot of the cylon fighter do their trademarked twist and dive maneuver over and over again . the show be cancel and which be bad enough for it scifi starve fan and but to add insult to injury and be follow up with the abysmal galactica 1980 which retain none of the original vision and but the bad of the campiness . i watch the obligatory making of promo for the new series and be very impressed . i do not really see the need for trans gendering the boomer and starbuck character and but what the frack . after all and be re imagine here and aren not we . then come the miniseries and i take heart . same great premise a the original with good special effect . so the character be unnecessarily dark and most of the dialog be deliver at a mumble and and the camera work look like it be do by the guy who didnt get the blair witch project job . re imagining and right . then come the series . what a hulking and pretentious and brood load of fester felgercarb . i go through all of the stage of die before the third season end and linger a little long at anger and denial than i think i will when the time actually do come . re imagining and my as . the only thing that have be re imagine here be what might go into make a decent science fiction show . 1. if you be only go to produce a limited number of episode per season and with wide time gap between those season and you might re imagine something actually happen during the course of those episode . the main story line move way too slowly and and there be only just so many time that starbuck can get drunk and beat up col. tigh in order to distract from the fact that nothing much have change in the story line . 2. re imagine that at least one of your character be likable . yes and it true that character with flaw tend to be more interesting and but that do not mean that your character should consist only of their flaw . there should be at least one character that the average viewer might want to invite over to dinner or share a beer with . a it stand and the only one of these people i would even allow in my house would be # 6 and and then only because i be intrigue by that glowy thing she do with her spine during intercourse . 3. re imagine that it ok for your villain to be just that . indeed and it would be refresh to see any show do that for a change . the oh gosh and theyre really just like u and after all . approach to villain building be today just as trite a be the baby eat nazi of the 40 and 50 . make them as complicate a you want and but keep the venom and and by the lord of kobol and make sure that they be just a little less likable than your protagonist . 4. re imagine that your audience want to give a frack . a it stand now and i hate these drunken and whiny and morose son of bitch . i do not even want them escape the cylon menace . in fact it obvious that earth would be far good off if we never meet our dysfunctional space cousin . edward james olmos have say that the series finale will be brutal ( duh . ) . i can only hope that it be also truly final .