The Lesson: Here's where Trek can learn from one of Galactica's big weaknesses, albeit one baked in to the TV format. BSG had some great seasons, but creator/producer Ron Moore often admitted they were writing by the seat of their pants, making most of the plot up as they went.
It showed in later years as plots twisted in on themselves and the makers found themselves written into several corners.
Orci, Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof would do well to plan out the plot for at least two more films so that there's a solid foundation on which to write the stories so everything flows.
Maybe next time that'll mean no pointless snow monster.
The Example: The episodes leading up to BSG's crammed finale found themselves with too much plot and not enough time to explain it all.
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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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