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Monday, July 14, 2003

Battlestar Galactica returns
Like most people who grew up in the shadow of Star Wars, I immediately fell in love with the expensive TV sci-fi hit "Battlestar Galactica," which, in a bizarre move, self-imploded in its second season by bringing the crew of the ship to earth in order to save money. Then it went away. Lately, there's been a lot of talk about a remake, and yes, it's happening. But sadly, the new version--a four hour mini-series that will debut in December--will not be a faithful re-creation of the original. Argh. In the new version, the humans are from earth, and not searching for earth, removing the core philosophical and quasi-religious backdrop of the original story. Starbuck is now a woman (!), which sounds ludicrious. But I will give them credit for supposedly making the show "darker, sexier and a lot less escapist than the original." Then again, that's what they said Deep Space Nine would be too, and that got off to a less-than-exciting start.

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