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TV Guide instructs its readers in the latest issue of TV Guide to forget all about the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES" and accept Ronald D. Moore's "Poor Ass Subsitute" instead. Well, I still haven't forgotten about the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES", and Ronald D. Moore's "Star Trek-esque" disaster HIDING BEHIND the "Battlestar Galactica" brand name has gone straight from my thoughts South to my bowels.
Skimming through this latest TV Guide article devoted to Ronald D. Moore's "Star Trek Crap", I am reminded of how much LOWER the standards are nowadays within the media to accept any PIECE OF SHIT that the television industry craps out of its rear end. Indeed, in this era where TV Guide gushes over the latest reality show involving buxom cheerleaders eating live worms on camera, it comes as no surprise that such mind numbing television would psychologically condition TV Guide to accept Ron Moore's "Shit." Indeed, this latest article in TV Guide reinforces the fact that there is simply NOTHING of any residual value in Ronald D. Moore's series. The article starts off with a cast photo from Moore's series, with cast members wearing their "Off The Rack Clothing" from "Wal-Mart." This in itself should have been a warning sign to TV Guide that both Ronald D. Moore and Sci-Fi Channel subscribed to the lowest financial and creative denominators when throwing this SHIT together. Hell no, TV Guide (bribes anyone?) gushes over this fairly ordinary looking series as if it is really any different from "West Wing", "St. Elsewhere", or "Boston Legal." The way Ronald D. Moore's cast members are dressed, they could effortlessly make guest appearances on any of the shows I just listed WITHOUT doing a wardrobe change. Ronald D. Moore DIDN'T reinvent televised Science Fiction for his series, he TOOK the physical appearance of Science Fiction OUT OF Science Fiction.
We then have a character roll-call description in this article. I thought I was reading character profiles from the latest Rick Berman "Star Trek" sequel series, instead. "Six?" Didn't they mean "Seven of Nine?" "Starbuck?" Didn't they mean "Ensign Ro?" "Apollo?" Didn't they mean "Tom Paris?" "Baltar?" Didn't they mean a humanoid "Quark?" President Roslin?" Didn't they mean "Deanna Troi?" "Adama?" Didn't they mean "Captain Picard?" "Boomer?" Didn't they mean "Hoshi Sato?"
The photos in this article speak a thousand words. A photo on page 30 shows "Six" and "Baltar" with the caption: "'Six' and 'Baltar' gaze into the future." Well, Ronald D. Moore has his "Romance Cliche" right there. "Six" and "Baltar" really don't have unique identities that they can call their own. They are an amalgamation of "Luke & Laura" from "General Hospital", "Mulder & Scully" from "X-Files", "Deanna Trois & William Ryker" from "Star Trek: TNG." Whatever CLICHE worked a thousand times before, Ronald D. Moore snatches it up like POPCORN, and incorporates it into his series. The superficial conflict between the two just adds to the CLICHE.
Matt Roush does everything for Ronald D. Moore's series except ejaculate all over it. Roush claims "an original concept" in the "anybody could be a Cylon" subplot. Roush obviously NEVER SAW "The Thing", or "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" or hundreds of other productions that Moore STOLE from for his series. Matt Roush then claims "brilliance" in the "Cylons" becoming flesh & blood. Matt Roush is obviously IGNORANT of the BUDGET LIMITATIONS which PREVENTED this production from rebuilding the "REAL CYLONS" from the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES." Flesh & Blood "Cylons" was Ronald D. Moore's way of saying:
"HEY,....I'VE GOT NO MONEY!!!"
TV Guide, its publishing NAIVETE knowing no bounds, then unknowingly SPILLS THE BEANS about Sci-Fi Channel's latest Internet claim: That 20 EPISODES had been ordered for a second season. As plain as day, on page 30; TV Guide reveals that the second season WILL ONLY consist of 10 EPISODES. Gee, what happened to the other 10? Down the www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire TOILET that's for sure!!
TV Guide claims that "this is the series sci-fi fans have been dreaming about." What fans?....Where?...Does TV Guide mean the HUNDREDS of Universal/Sci-Fi Channel EMPLOYEES on the INTERNET POSING AS FANS? Is TV Guide referring to the POLITICAL AGENDAS these HUNDRED OF EMPLOYEES are PROTECTING? Is that what TV Guide means by that statement? After all, who in the GENERAL PUBLIC DOMAIN would be "dreaming" about a "Star Trek-esque" sequel series HIDING BEHIND the "Battlestar Galactica" brand name if they had no FINANCIAL RESOURCES or POLITICAL AGENDAS tied up in this series?? Everyone in the pubic domain has already seen this SHIT thousands of times before in other television series going back 50 years. From the perspective of the general public, this is just another "Ho Hum" television series that has come along like any other series, INDISTINGUISHABLE from any other series, and will MOST LIKELY DIE BEFORE ALL 10 NEW EPISODES ARE BROADCAST. Ronald D. Moore's series offers NOTHING NEW for the general public to "dream about."
REPACKAGED CLAP-TRAP is all that Ronald D. Moore's series REALLY IS. A tv series HIDING BEHIND a publicity machine that has overstayed its welcome, hundreds of Universal employees on-line POSING AS FANS, and the GULLIBLE NAIVETE of TV Guide. 
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