thread: 2009-01-13 : Storming the Wizard's Tower ... in SPAAACE
On 2009-01-15, valamir wrote:
Well its really two things. One is that the new show plays to very different fears. OBSG had a very cold war vibe. The new show is very enemy among us, who can you trust, are you one of THEM. That's understandable, different times...but then why not just make a whole new show to portray these new fears. The other one seems smaller by comparison, but to me is much larger. OBSG was a buddy show. Buddy shows were big back in the day, so there's nothing particularly original about it. But the central feature of OBSG was the buddy relationship between starbuck and apollo and how that intersects with other male relationships like superiors (adama, tigh) and secondary buddies (boomer). Much like say...Top Gun...it was a show about young men being young men (within the bounds of network censorship and studios catering to advertisers, of course). NBSG pretty much threw that whole dynamic out. You can't have the same sort of relationship between starbuck, apollo, and boomer when two of the guys have suddenly become girls. Again...different times...but then why not just make it a different show. Also the whole family angle of Adama, Apollo, and Athena which was central to OBSG is almost absent in NBSG (my understanding is that Athena isn't even a character)
