The Lesson: Trek is a fluffy, fun cinematic souffle compared to the dark and brutal world of Battlestar.
But there's room for more drama in the world that Gene Roddenberry created - and we'd even go so far as to say that Abrams and co could kill off one of the crew in the next film to up the stakes - Chekov, maybe? We'd hate to lose Anton Yelchin's performance, but it would be effective.
And it's sci-fi, so remember Spock: no one has to stay dead forever! (It resonates more if they do, though…)
The Example: Dualla fits in here too, but so does Cally. She started as a minor role, the graduated to an essential supporting player, getting a family life and - spoiler alert again! - a shocking death when she's offed by an evil Cylon and a conveniently open launch bay door.
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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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