One thing that impresses me about TV shows - remakes or otherwise - is when the casting is all but flawless. Not only do the actors in nuBSG have the range and skills to do the job, but they look and sound exactly the way they should. Of course, that's my opinion of The West Wing, too. I'm not pining for a rerun of Pa Cartwright in a Bathrobe.
I have some great ideas for remaking the original Battlestar: Galactica. Much better than the dreck known as nuBG.
My idea was to have the Cylons from NuBSG that went back to Kobol or Earth 1, I don’t remember, have them go back to the colonies. They eventually evolve into skin jobs and basically start al over and maybe that leads to TOS. Or have future earthlings finally achieve FTL. They then discover the twelve colonies, settle there and that starts the whole thing over.if the prequel Caprica would have been good, they would have set things up better and would have made Daniel the eighth Cylon and that would explain things better.
Going on a slight tangent... Larson's Buck Rogers was set starting in 2491. Firefly was set in 2517. It doesn't strike me as unreasonable that the second season plot of BR25 could dovetail into The Searcher story, potentially featuring the Draconians complicating Earth That Was and the Anglo-Sino Alliance's reunification.
I hated the idea of the Cylons as robots and wanted to go back to the original concept by Larson that they were cyborgs. I especially like the idea that they were ALIEN cyborgs with no reason to look remotely like humans or robots based on humans. I would like to redo the original with the Cylons clearly as alien cyborgs with a large dose of H.R. Giger design features thrown in. The one thing I do like is the red, electronic eye. I would have this feature on ALL Cylons (except the Imperious Leader), all Cylon ships and even all Cylon planets. I imaged a Cylon world with an enormous "red eye" moving across it reminding one somewhat of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. This would reinforce the concept that all Cylons everywhere are linked.
