Back in 1978 , Time magazine published a scathing review of a brand - new TV show called Battlestar Galactica . In the wake of BSG ’s victorious return to TV with Saturday Nox ’s especial installment Razor , it ’s interesting to take a flavor back at where the dealership began . be $ 15 million , the original BSG was the most expensive TV series ever made . Today , the reboot version of the show runs on SciFi Channel on a limited budget . Also unlike today ’s BSG , the 1970s serial publication was reject as derivative and formulaic .
Show Godhead Glen Larson hire Star Wars special gist result John Dykstra to create BSG ’s look , which apparently was just a bit too Star Wars for comfort . Fox , which produced Star Wars , litigate BSG studio apartment Universal for copyright infringement . The Time cartridge clip article seems to think the suit is justified , pointing out all the ways that the original show blatantly ripped off characters like Han Solo ( Starbuck ) , Luke ( Apollo ) and Darth Vader ( Baltar ) . ( By the way , Universal counter - action , claiming that Fox had ripped Star Wars off from its own 1972 movie Silent Running . )
You ’d never see comparing with Star Wars today , after yr of prequels to the original Star Wars movie change the enfranchisement from heroic pursuance to byzantine , misguided political apologue . Plus , the Ron Moore / David Eick create reboot of BSG is intelligibly original — there are no Darth Vader ripoffs here . BSG ’s origins may have been well - fund , but they are nevertheless humble by equivalence with what the franchise later became .
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