Is this substantially better than the remake?  Man, I was watching the remake version last night and I was bored out of my mind, didn't even finish watching.  I probably would've stuck around the whole thing if I didn't have Modern Warfare 2 calling to me.

All they were doing was talk, talk, talk.  Didn't anything interesting happen after the first hour?

 Well, to each his own but the remake while having some issues was still pretty good. To ask if the original is better is always the dumbest question (not saying Hanso is dumb, so everyone just chill out)… the remakes will never be better than the original (I think “The Thing” is perhaps one of the few remakes that exceeds the original). 

I have heard this talking complaint from a few people now. What is so wrong with dialogue pushing a plot or series? I thought it tunred out well. The only thing that truly bothered me was the use of the number 7. In the original series they hardly or never used the number 7 just cause they didn't want to and that lead people to speculate on it for years according to my Dad who watched this when it first came on. 

I just hope Nolan will continue with his plans of this great show as a movie franchise and then everybody will shut the hell up and give the series the respect deserves. 

I may pick this up as Blu-Ray but I need to find a home for the DVD version I have then.

Great show, started watching it two weeks ago in preparation of the remake.  I'm currently obsessed with the original.  The Remake so far is ok imo. 

I didn't ask if it was better, I asked if it was substantially better meaning waaaaaay better than the first hour of what I saw last night thus giving me an idea if I do have to end up checking out the original due to this remake not living up to it.

There is nothing wrong with using dialogue to push a plot, I just thought what was going on in that first hour was boring as hell.  I didn't care for any it.  I caught the first episode of the original series thanks to Ripum letting me know Comcast had the whole series On Demand and that first episode was way more interesting than the first hour I saw of the remake.

It's my favorite TV show, but you have to be able to accept story lines that aren't neatly wrapped up. Some of them are just perplexing, like a Zen koan. But it's not particularly challenging or anything.

Hanso, I haven't watched the new one yet but this show is incredible and a lot of fun!

The thing I liked about the original was that Patrick McGoohan's character as as much of a master manipulator as the number 2s he took apart, and that he took his own mischievous delight in doping so. That and the quirky other characters that Made up the Village. It was Really James Bond meets George Orwell,with the Number 2s as Wannabe Big Brothers, playing their own Orwellian plots to break number 6. The problem I have with the new version is that Jim Caviesiel's character is much more the standard mamn in a mouse trap that has no idea how he got there. The other problem I have is that the writers seem too afraid to reveal anything so nothing ever seems to happen, and if it does we don't know what it means or might mean or why we should care. The other villagers mostly stay in the scared and confused range and we don't really get a cast of quirks or fun or funny scenes to break up the scary and mysterious tone. Then scenes with Ian McKellan are by far the best imn the series and the paet where he dressed down the two Psychologists was the most fun momentin the first two hours. And the stuff between Ian and his son r orather 2's son is interesting. His son is in fact one of the most interesting characters n the show and I entertained the idea that they might depart from the series amd make him number 1. but it doesn't seem from the previews that they'll be going in that direction. But yes, in answer to your question, the original serires is very different and much better in my opinion.