Well to me the Galactica remake was brilliant. They took all the silly out of the original and put in some fine dramatic and believable sci fi writing. OTHO, the show was just too intense and by the second season it was kind of a chore to watch the goings on. It might actually be better as a binge watch because you don't have to wait a week to follow the story.
I've said this before, but I loved the mini-series and the first 2 seasons of BSG. And for the record, it was miles beyond the original.
However, I thought it really took a nosedive in the 3rd season when they stopped focusing on the Human-Cylon conflict as much and instead had a bunch of episodes centered on individuals in a soap opera like manner.
Then it got even worse in the 4th season with all the quasi-religious stuff. At that point, it stopped being a serious science fiction series and became more of a weird science fantasy story. I always wondered if they had a major change in the writing staff because of how different it had become, but I never bothered to look it up.