Offering up sg1 as an example of how to make a modern sci fi show is laughable, I watched that religiously for going on 6 years, til I got tired of predicting the ending by the first ad break.
First it was apophis, they killed him, he came back, they killed him again, he came back, they killed him, hurray the biggets most undefeatable baddy in the universe is dead, oh no we overlooked anubis!
By this point I gave up hope, I know they defeated him in the end and when all the dust had settled and once again the most omnipotent villain yet has been defeated, the wraith wake up! Ad nauseum! It was a good show up until around that point where it was predictable with marginal room for error.
Oh and werent the replicators in there a few dozen times...throw in the pathetic political elements and conspiracy elements of the shows I wanted to spit on richard dean anderson, oh and lets not forget the recurring part of daniel, hes dead, no hes not, hes dead, yes he is!...no wait!
No sci fi show is perfect, but originality is rare in all of them, I wont praise battlestar, but it is a good show albeit the religious element of the cyclons and the whole multiple copies part which really does annoy. I have my own ideas for endings, but so far the writers have thrown so many curves into the plots its hard to really guess with any certainty where they will end up.
Is it better than the original? Yes, its vastly superiour, not just graphically, but the plotlines are in a tight arc, not one week skits you can walk in and understand the show in the first 5 minutes. I dont see the show lasting past 5 seasons, unless they distort the timeline as they have in season 2-3 with the 6 month jump!
