I have managed to acquire the first series, the Lorne Greene, Dirk Benedict, Richard Hatch version. I did so out of a misplaced fit of nostalgia.
I started to watch the first episode and was promptly knocked on the floor by the badness of the dialogue. OH, it is bad. Over the run of this series, they had some decent actors - Jane Seymour in a recurring role, and loads of others whose names I remember (I looked at the credits of many eps at random). The crappy writing makes it excruciating. I immediately felt the urge to MST. Followed quickly by the urge to run screaming for my Farscape/DS9/BSG 2003 dvds. Heck, this writing makes TNG season 1 look like Oscar material.
So maybe, before I suffer permanent brain damage anyway, I’ll post summaries of the old BSG eps. Because I’d like to do a little good in the world, and this’ll spare you just in case you question whether, out of die-hard fannishness, you should revisit the BSG of yore. Because you shouldn’t, really.
I honestly did not remember the ep where Starbuck finds his father. Nor the one where they find a ship full of cryonically suspended humans they think are from Earth… hmm, wonder where they got that idea from?
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