Actually I kind of like what I have seen of what they are doing with the show. I know a lot of people are complaining, but I think it's misguided. I was a huge fan of the original series, but I was ten at the time. My judge of quality writing was not that great. I got a chance to catch some of the original series on TV a few months ago, and frankly it was barely tolerable to watch. The only thing keeping me was the sense of nostalgia. The characters were very two dimensional, the situations were unbelieveable, and the dialogue was very 70's.
The series really needs a fresh take if its going to be done at all. You couldn't really pick it up where the original left off, that ground ws pretty much poisoned with the Galactica 1980 spinoff. And if you were just going to do the original all over again with different actors, what's the point?
I for one am looking forward to it.