Battlestar Galactica

[geoschmo]

Actually I kind of like what I have seen of what they are doing with the show. I know a lot of people are complaining, but I think it's misguided. I was a huge fan of the original series, but I was ten at the time. My judge of quality writing was not that great. I got a chance to catch some of the original series on TV a few months ago, and frankly it was barely tolerable to watch. The only thing keeping me was the sense of nostalgia. The characters were very two dimensional, the situations were unbelieveable, and the dialogue was very 70's.

The series really needs a fresh take if its going to be done at all. You couldn't really pick it up where the original left off, that ground ws pretty much poisoned with the Galactica 1980 spinoff. And if you were just going to do the original all over again with different actors, what's the point?

I for one am looking forward to it.

[oleg]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Starbuck's a girl? Oh my. This does irreperable damage to a whole boatload of my adolescent fantasies.

You know, I could see Apollo being a girl. He was always kind of a wuss. But Starbuck? Come on now folks.

Although, it might be kind of hot if the new Starbuck still has a thing for Casseopeia. growl

Geoschmo

Starbuck ? Is't a coffee chain ?
edit: just kidding

[ June 20, 2003, 15:26: Message edited by: oleg ]

[Loser]

Mormons in Space: the Return

Not that there's anything wrong with that. There have been a couple of other films that have arguably Mormon influences, though they seem to be mockeries. And the LDS seem to have their own movies, but those aren't meant for general audience, like Battlestar Galactica.

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Western Socio-Religious Groups regularly get representation in film, so I've no objection (though some can be difficult to interpret). I guess it just seems odd, not what an unbeliever would expect from the LDS.

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

Starbuck a girl huh? I know a woman who likes to pretend she's Starbuck at Sci Fi conventions. She's very butch and would love some of that Casiopiea action.
In no way does this mean I admit to going to Sci Fi conventions!

I just hope they leave out that robotic dog monkey and that little kid with the bowl haircut.

What next, a remake of Buck Rogers or Land of The Lost?

[geoschmo]

I don't know about the kid, but the creator's said in an interview there is definetly NOT going to be a daggit.

[Loser]

They already did a Land of the Lost, didn't they. Saturday Mornings, five-to-ten years ago, Father, kids, rubber suited bad guys with glowing crystal set-things, and an SUV.

[PvK]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
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Last i saw of starbuck, he was male! and so was boomer. did they kill the originals of for good?
reimagine? if they mess this up, to quote a warcarft 3 character 'IT'S HAMMER TIME!'.

I suggest that we should learn that the Colonial race actually metamorphs from one sex to another as they mature, which would give a ground-breaking new use for "morphing" video technology. That way, as the series progresses to the point of the Cylon attack, the female pilots would have slowly morphed into the original actors.

PvK