[neatoman]

I stopped watching the 2004 show like halfway through season 2 because of how tedious it really was. I find it a little insulting that the original show, which was conceptually about refugees running into all sorts of strange new things on the way to their new home, didn't even get 20 episodes. While the show that is nothing more than constant paranoia over androids and yapping about religion, that show somehow got 4 seasons and a spin-off adding up to almost 100 episodes.

Like I get that the original show was too expensive, which is why it got canned. And the newer show was probably more successful in part to the fact that the characters never ran into aliens, the Cylons almost exclusively looked exactly like humans, most scenes being filmed on the same sets and the look of different planets being achieved through ****ing light filters.

I get it, they probably saved a lot of money that way. But could they at least have come up with something a little more varied than paranoia over who is a spy or the villain having wet dreams about a woman converting him to monotheism? They're not bad themes but I felt the concept was missing some variety.