"...a show of despair, sexual violence and family dysfunction. To better reflect the times of ambiguous morality in which we live, one would assume. A show in which the aliens (Cylons) are justified in their desire to destroy human civilization, one would assume. Indeed, let us not say who the good guys are and who the bad are. That is being “judgmental,” taking sides, and that kind of (simplistic) thinking went out with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and Kathryn Hepburn and John Wayne and, well, the original “Battlestar Galactica.”
Dirk Benedict wants us to return to a show that NOBODY would watch. It would produce nothing but laughter - as did the original series.
I like both the humans and the cylons in the new series, and have to actually think about which group is “right” at a particular time.
Imagine that. The “bad guys” have an actual grievance and wrestle with the morality of their acts.
Benedict knows that his character and performance only work if you suspend credible thinking and accept one side as the ONLY side. People want to think, and his “Galactica” required none of that.
And, throwing around Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and John Wayne doesn’t work either. Little more than name-dropping to try to force an incoherent point.
Families can be dysfunctional. I know this.
Former slaves can harbor resentment. Not a giant leap there.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan weren’t “simplistic”, they were committed. Benedict doesn’t seem to understand this.