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Topic: In The Final Analysis, GINO Will be Remembered As A Cowardly, Play It Safe Show (Read 104 times)
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languatron
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Life could be this beautiful without NBC-TV in it.
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The viewing public put NBC-Universal to the test, and they ultimately BACKED AWAY from reviving "Battlestar Galactica." NBC-Universal is a corporation AFRAID of "Battlestar Galactica", but not afraid to slap the "Battlestar Galactica" brand name on a PLAY IT SAFE "Star Trek" clone. No amount of BRAINWASHING, CORRUPT stealth marketing, or ENDLESS, on-line ARGUING with the general public will appease the fact that NBC-Universal ultimately FAILED to revive "Battlestar Galactica", and instead green-lit a PLAY IT SAFE "Star Trek" clone THROWN TOGETHER by a former HACK "Star Trek" writer who should JUSTIFIABLY be joining Brannon Braga in the UNEMPLOYMENT LINE.
"GINO" safely treads established "Star Trek" paremeters established by Rick Berman decades ago. "GINO" is a production AFRAID OF ITS OWN SHADOW, because it is a production AFRAID TO BE WHAT IT CLAIMS TO BE. Ronald D. Moore was hired to deliver what he usually delivers with his CHARACTERISTIC LETHARGY. "Starfleet Officers" go through the motions on present day Earth in "GINO." Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. "Starfleet Officers" named Apollo, Adama, and Starbuck SULK ACROSS THE GALAXY (like puddles of molasses) in a Gene Roddenberry nightmare gone horribly wrong. The universe in "GINO" is REMARKABLY EARTH BOUND, with the entire universe being one GIANT, EARTH-LIKE PLANET where English speaking people and leisure clothing from "Sears" go hand in hand.
There was nothing arduous about NBC-Universal greenlighting this production. They knew that NO NEW GROUND WOULD BE BROKEN WITH "GINO." In what may be a continuing trend with NBC-Universal, they throw their brand names all over the damn place, while jettisoning the actual contents. The recent "Night Stalker" revival attempt took full advantage of the "Night Stalker" brand name, while jettisoning what made "Night Stalker" what it was. Granted, Darren McGavin is too old to be doing much of anything anymore, and Simon Oakland has long since passed on, but the acceptable course of action for dealing with the "Night Stalker" brand name, would have been to not do anything at all.
The "GINO" production screams that NOTHING SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE with the "Battlestar Galactica" brand name under this current incarnation. If COWARDICE and FEAR of the actual contents of the 1978 "Battlestar Galactica" brand name keeps preventing NBC-Universal from doing anything constructive with this property, then their only alternative is to SELL THE PROPERTY to buyers who AREN'T AFRAID of what "Battlestar Galactica" really is. CONSERVATIVISM in decision making KILLED the 1978 "Battlestar Galactica" series, gave birth to "Galactica: 1980", and now gave birth to "GINO." If anything is blatantly clear, it is that the "Battlestar Galactica" brand name keeps going round and round in an endless circle chasing its own tail, as it has been doing under Universal Studios MISMANAGEMENT since 1978. The ONLY TIME this property even came close to realizing its fullest potential, was in the 1978 pilot episode. From there, Universal Studios gradually took this property on a ONE WAY TRIP TO HELL, where there MISMANAGEMENT promises NO RETURN. The "GINO" production is begging for a CANCELLATION BULLET, and the sooner it happens the better.   
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