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• Re:Has to be B5 (Score: 3, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Thursday January 19 2017, @11:14PM

  by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday January 19 2017, @11:14PM (#456282)

  Battlestar Galactica (the 21st century incarnation) started off OK bit it turned out that, although the Cylons may have Had A Plan, they forgot to tell the writers... and, what, is Bob Dylan (or was it Hendrix) God?

  BSG started out utterly fantastic. But then it went to shit after about 2 seasons. That was a real shame; that show really had the potential to be an iconic sci-fi show remembered for decades, like Star Trek (TOS) or TNG or Firefly. But I think they ruined it with the later seasons.

  As for Dylan vs. Hendrix, it was both: Dylan wrote the song "All Along the Watchtower", and Hendrix performed the most famous and best version of it. Even Dylan himself said so. From Wikipedia:

  Dylan has described his reaction to hearing Hendrix's version: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day." In the booklet accompanying his Biograph album, Dylan said: "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way... Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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