thread: 2009-01-13 : Storming the Wizard's Tower ... in SPAAACE
On 2009-01-14, Christopher Kubasik wrote:
Marginalia is disabled, and Vincent if this is wrong place, wrong time, just tell me and I'll make arrangements with Ralph separately...
But I'm always fascinated with what people "get" from different stories (me included), and my brain is buzzing with curiosity.
Ralph, you write, "they completely threw out the central premise of the original and took it somewhere different..."
Could you tell me what the central premise of the original series was? I ask because I thought the premise of the original was, "The last major Colonial fighter carrier leads a makeshift fleet of human refugees on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth...." (Which I just pulled from IMDB) And that seems to be the premise of the new series as well—to ME.
This isn't me saying, "You're wrong!" It's me being genuinely curious.
After that there's a whole bunch of other questions I have, like Dante re-working the Fall and ancient Greek playwrights stepping on each other's toes about mythic events of the same characters. But I'm assuming that's just way out of the scope of this here thread.
So, just one quick question about the old and new BSG's: Ralph, what is the central premise of each show for you?
