What’s this? A BSG TV show with actual space lasers? Guys and gals not shagging in the hallways or moping around pondering the existential nature of life? Dang, as cheesy as this trailer is, it actually looks sci-fi, not some arthouse bullshit dressed up as sci-fi. Really, Ron Moore? People are flying around in spaceships on your show, and your characters are still wearing eyeglasses and use 20th century phones to communicate? WTF.
In case you’ve never seen it, here’s the 4-minute trailer that original BSG star Richard Hatch hatched together (har har) in 1999 to sell a new BSG series called Second Coming. No one bought it, alas, and we now have Ron Moore’s version instead. You know, the one where everyone is miserable and you want to slit your wrist after every episode?
By the by, I once heard Dirk Benedict, the original Starbuck on radio once doing an interview, and he made a great joke about how Ron Moore attempted to emasculate the original show by basically turning the most “male” character on the show (re: Starbuck) into a woman. This, points out Benedict, backfired when, as it turns out, the female Starbuck was more manly and butch than the original Starbuck ever was. Good one, Dirk, good one.
Anyhoo. Trailer via Io9. They prefer Ron Moore’s version, but that’s probably because like most critics, Io9 has to constantly sniff Ron Moore’s jockstrap in order to remind their peers how “cool” they are and should be let into the party.
