One of my earliest logo designs for this site.
In the early days of this site I tried to do a feature called “Saturday Night Galactica“, going over all the episodes of the original series back when Hulu was a different type of website. It didn’t get a lot of views even by my early standards (and less by today’s, even if I still barely get above 100 because I’m just a little site), Hulu changed the way it did things, so the post series was renamed Saturday Night Theater, now Saturday Night Showcase. I was too young to stay up to watch the show when it aired but I did really enjoy the syndicated reruns when I was able to catch them. I could never get into the Sci-Fi/SyFy series of the 2000s. While it was done more competently than…
…that thing I don’t want to ever talk about again, I could tell from what I’ve heard about it that it lacked the hope and optimism, while turning classic names into “callsigns” (2000s “Starbuck” is Kara Trace, 1970’s “Starbuck” is Starbuck), and just changed everybody I liked into something completely unrecognizable. Why is Colonel Tigh now a drunken white guy and why am I forced to note Boomer is a hottie? Baltar sleeping with Six instead of competing with Six? And where are all the non-human aliens? Even Dave Herber, who is a fan of the reimagined ragtag fleet, realizes the original series did a lot better because it kept that optimism while Glen A. Larson infused some of his Mormon beliefs into the stories, which he goes over in this article at Bleeding Fool.
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