“A remake of a pretty bad mini-series from the ’80’s today is just a sign that there is little real imagination, risk taking or vision in the movie/TV industry (where’s Delta Burke in the remake? ).”

I don’t agree with this entirely. YES, the entertainment industry is WAY to reliant on rehash, but reconceptions of ideas can be worthwhile.

The Battlestar Galactica series is one case. While I think it had some serious flaws if you looK at it as a whole (moral relativism begins to get the best of it), its examination of issues we struggle with today is valuable.

It’s writers have stumbled at times, but what impressed me is that it frequently presented VERY complicated moral choices and yet did not offer easy solutions to them. Things are often…messy, and part of the characters’ struggles is come to grips with that reality, and persevere.

I agree that Sci-Fi should not be written AS allegory, which can come off as clumsy, but if one thinks it is not more often that not just that in some form you are mistaken.

The best Sci-Fi allows us to look at ourselves from the outside, re-examining things with a lens we might otherwise never look through.

The new “V” might be dreck, but if it actually attempts to honestly examine difficult issues and human reactions and limitations in dealing with them, it could be quite good.

I predicit, though, based on recent television history, that it will start off strong, then nose-dive if it actually manages to survive for a season. That the reality of broadcast TV today.

WG