DISQUS

nomar · 9 months ago

just like how will smith is going to ruin the karate kid with his remake. fail

Aleric · 9 months ago

I have to disagree with you on the orginal BG Landon. If you go back and watch the original film and the first few episodes of the first season you will see that the original intent was to be a serious film and series. But like most series of its time the censors and the spin doctors of their day kept changing and altering the original scripts to the point that by the end of the second season you could tell Glen Larson and the original team had given up. Talk to Dirk Bennidict and Richard Hatch to hear their tales of how they were barraged with people trying to make the show more "happy" and less gloomy.

LandonPalmer · 9 months ago

While its original intent may have been more serious, it seems that we don't disagree that this intent was hardly realized in the execution of the majority of the original series. I would argue further that because the original BSG intended to be serious and came out, for the most part, not so, that this makes its campiness more legitimate and genuine (as opposed to films that try hard to achieve camp status, like Snakes on a Plane). Furthermore, I would argue that the campiness generally perceived in the original series in hindsight is more important than the specific degree of campy content actually existing in the series itself, as the original BSG, intending a serious tone or not, has, without a doubt, not exactly aged gracefully. Perception, in many ways, carries more cultural weight than reality. For instance, Miami Vice, despite that its excess in style and melodramatic content was probably always obvious, is perceived differently now than it was in the 80s, and the retro 80s feel adds to its campiness.