The Lesson: Yeah, the Trek series isn't exactly supposed to be dark and dangerous, but the films - and some of the series (DS9, anyone?) managed to deal with serious subjects and bleaker themes without losing the entertainment value.
And BSG took this idea to the next level - providing great entertainment while pulling off gritty, epic storytelling.
Have Trek take on the biggest ideas it can, given that it's still got to be blockbuster entertainment, and try not to have it shy from pointing fingers where it can. Trek was never shy about criticising government policy or racism, and the film can benefit from the same forcefulness.
The Example: BSG's brutal New Caprica storyline that launched the third season - casting the heroes of the piece in the same role as Iraq insurgents.
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RemakesJustSuck
Oct 16th 2009, 0:34
BSG was mostly a disaster, it had 3-4 good actors the rest of the cast were terrible. It had one good season the rest was unwatcable If anything JJ should try to be nothing like Battlestar Unwatcable, either the new or the 80s version both of them sucked and are terribly over-rated by fanboys
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Paul2320
Apr 26th 2010, 8:23
But you watched all of them. Right? That's how you knew that they all sucked..
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Gorty
Oct 27th 2010, 20:56
Yeah, please stop with RDM a*s-kissing. "No SF cliches"?! Have you even bothered to watch the show? RDM is pushing this BS that because he didn't include aliens and time travel that he avoided SF cliches. But what about tons of other cliches that went on and on trough the show like chosen one (at one point there were at least 6 "chosen one" characters), the special child, returns from the dead, androids secretly among us, Adam and Eve... And he may not include time travel but he included endless and pointless flashbacks.
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