[gregebowman]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Atrocities, honestly there is nothing available anywhere that is truely original. We've been making movies now for a hundred years, and telling each other stories for thousands or millions of years before that. Anything anyone thinks up now has been thought up before. So saying something is cookie cutter is just argumentative. Every example you suggest was derivative of somethinn that came before it. And the original BSG was derivative of stuff before that. For that matter, if the current BSG were done over closer to the original, you could say even more truthfully that it was cookie cutter.

Since it's impossible to be truely original any more, the only thing you can hope for is for the story to be compelling, interesting, and well written. I think that this was. I hope to see more of it.

Geoschmo

Amen to that. I definitely want to see more. As far as stories go, there was a post recently that stated there are only 5 or 10 original stories, and everthing else is just a mixture of those stories. So the "cookie cutter" method has been going on for thousands of years. And Hollywood has definitely been doing that for ages. There are very few original ideas that have come out of the left coast. Mostly now, they produce sequels or remakes. Even Star Wars was a mixture of ideas, myths, and a Japanese film. But as far as BSG, I also would have like to have more of an explanation as to why teh Cylons hate humanity to the point of genocide.