Quote - British TV cannot make a series on the same scale or budget as American series (fewer episodes per season, less money per episode, etc.), so is it really fair to measure them by the same stick?

Yes, especially since I specifically excluded production values.

For perspective, compare the Doctor Who (or Blake's Seven) that was contemporary with "Galactica 1980" (shudder).

Moving on to now, the production values of Doctor Who are almost really good. The visual effects in the latest episode were terrific. Yet can you honestly say that the show has the weight of the current Battlestar Galactica remake or the imagination of the much lamented Farscape?

I still hurt that Farscape ended so abruptly and incompletely. I wait with glee and nervous anticipation for Tuesday (BSG). I have other plans next Saturday...

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