Oh, Dirk Bendict…

Yglesias says what needs to be said about Dirk Benedict’s screed against the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. It takes some chutzpah to rant against a better actor taking a more richly written role in a critically acclaimed show that has, thus far, run four times as long as the original. And although I’d love to read Benedict’s reaction to Katee Sackhoff taking the role of Faceman in an A-Team reprise, shows about roving bands of mercenary fugitive vigilantes went out with the decline of Reagan-Thatcher morality…

While on the subject, I think it’s clear that Richard Hatch’s decision to accomodate himself to the new BSG has worked out both for himself and for the show; he’s actually been good, and the internal political conflict storylines have played out more productively than many of the other subplots (*COUGH* Starbuck-Apollo romance *COUGH*).