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Originally Posted by scastle
IIRC Ronald Moore (who created the new series) never intended to remake the original. He went back to the original ideas, and wrote a new story based on those ideas.
If viewed as a remake , then I think the new Galactica changes too much. If viewed as a new story based on the original ideas, then I think it is excellent. I think it conveys the sheer horror of there situation quite effectively. After all, watching your home and a lot of your loved ones be destroyed then being chased across the galaxy by the race that did it probably would be terrifying..
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That may well be true. It's a pity that they did not do as Star Trek did and simply rename it as "Battlestar Galactica: The Next Generation" or something similar to distinguish it from the original. They could also have kept the fundamental ideas but changed the characters.
In that way it would be judged on its own merits. What they have attempted to do is to produce an adapted remake of the original series with no sense of continuity other than character names.
Also, considering that it is supposed to convey the sense of horror of their tragedy there is still too much focus on intimate relationships.The original series was essentially an action series, which dealt with "human" issues like freedom, self-sacrifice, heroism etc but did so with a degree of humour and discreet relationships.