Battlestar Galactica On SciFi Channel

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Prince Xizor:
I really enjoyed Battlestar Galactica as a kid, despite all the similarities to Star Wars (it was like getting to watch Star Wars every week--this was before VCRs were commonplace keep in mind ). I'm sure I'll watch the Sci-Fi remake come December and find something to enjoy (Dune and Children of Dune weren't bad). There have been a lot of bad things said about it already though, such as the casting decisions. Starbuck and Boomer are women now?!

Please explain why you think Battlestar Galactica is similar to Star Wars? Other than the use of space ships? I've always wanted to look up the George Lucas lawsuit and see what possible reasons he could have had to think it was a SW rip-off...

And yes, from what I've heard the 'new' BG is only slightly more similar to the original than the old BG was to SW, as others have noted. It looks like they just wanted to hijack the brand-loyalty of the old show for their new SciFi series. I won't bother to watch it.

[SpaceBadger]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:

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Originally posted by Prince Xizor:
I really enjoyed Battlestar Galactica as a kid, despite all the similarities to Star Wars (it was like getting to watch Star Wars every week--this was before VCRs were commonplace keep in mind ).
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Please explain why you think Battlestar Galactica is similar to Star Wars?

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Try to look at it without 23+ years of hindsight. When Star Wars first came out, one of the best things about it for us kids (I was 14) was the special effects - the ships in space, the bLaster bolts, the light-sabres - all a quantum leap beyond what we were used to seeing in Star Trek re-runs on late night TV, or on Space: 1999. These were pretty much the only referents we had, and without VCRs we did not have the opportunity to study them in detail, we could only try and catch them when they happened to show up on TV.

From that point of view, yes, Battlestar Galactica certainly did a pretty good impression of Star Wars. The ships had a similar look to them; the appearance of ships in space, and ship combat, was very similar; and I think the hand-weapon effects were similar, too.

I didn't get to see Galactica much, only when I was over at the home of someone who lived in town and had cable TV, as it was on a network that we could not recieve by broadcast (ABC, maybe?), but I remember thinking back then that it would be so cool to be able to watch it regularly, like getting Star Wars on TV. (I watched Star Wars three times the summer it came out, then did not get to see it again in any form until Empire Strikes Back came out several years later; did not see the original Star Wars again until it was shown on TV about the time that Jedi came out, I think. My kids have them all on VHS and watch them whenever they get a notion, and think nothing of it.)

So anyway, yeah, I understand exactly what Xizor was saying, and agree with him.

SpaceBadger

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by JLPicard:
I think that Sci-Fi's Battlestar Galactica is going to be interesting also. But better yet would be a series based on Wing Commander (potentially deeper plot/storyline) or even
better yet, resurrecting Babylon 5!

The Wing Commander movie with Freddy Prince (sp) was a good movie and was produced by the same Glen Larson one of the original Battlestar Galactica producers.

[ October 06, 2003, 18:53: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The cylons are now 'humanoid' (think replicants from BladeRunner) and are now 'defending the 'colony' instead of searching for the lost colony and the mythical planet called earth.

in other words, the cylons are no longer imperialistic robots?

i can't come up with words for the apparent suckiness.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

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The cylons are now 'humanoid' (think replicants from BladeRunner) and are now 'defending the 'colony' instead of searching for the lost colony and the mythical planet called earth.

in other words, the cylons are no longer imperialistic robots?

i can't come up with words for the apparent suckiness.

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Yup this day an age ever classic is being rewritten by politically correct arseholes with poor imaginations and weak bladder control.

The robots were offended by the negative depiction that the original Battlestar Galactica series. The touchie feelie, politically correct, organic eating vegitarian tree huggers that are the writing staff for the Sci-Fi channel more than likely opted for this revisionist view of this classic TV series because they are so shallowly self centered as to believe they are gods gift to man.

If the Sci-Fi channel is sooooooooooooooo stupid as to do a revisionisic rewrite of the fundamental principal and story of battlestar galactica then they should be ridiculed to the end of time itself.

Bad Sci-Fi Channel! Bad!

[Loser]

I believe, in the original miniseries, or at least in the screenplay I read, the Cylons were reptilian in the beginning.

If I had cable, I'd watch the new BG just to see if I could find any remaining fragments of the LDS (yes I got that in the right order).

[Starhawk]

Pardon the oppinion of a newbie but I beleive you have all been misinformed.

I watched "Inside Battlestar Galactica" on Sci-Fi and it looks just like a revamped Version of the original nothing more nothing less.

The colonials BUILT the Cylons in this Version, I don't know if that's how it was in the original as I wasn't around back then but I think this sounds cool.

The Cylons come in two types in the miniseries they come in a wicked looking battledroid that is very obviously a mechanoid and they also come in a "sex slave/regular slave" kind of humanoid form that the Colonials built. The Cylons then rebelled against the Colonials and went all Pearl Harbor on the Colonial fleet.

Now the Galactica is the Last remaining warship in the Colonial navy and is guarding a rag tag fleet of civilians towards "unknown space" which might be earth for all we know.

As for "boomer" and "starbuck" being women now, personally i have nothing really against it since they are not adding them as "love interests" of any of the male characters, I personally love a kickass kinda lady and think it would be cool to see em. (and I always thought starbuck sounded kinda female anyway).
But the reason they are turning the males into women instead of adding new female pilots is because they "according to them" wanted these characters to be just as important as the males and since most of the galactica series focused on Starbuck, Apollo and Boomer the best way for them was to turn the two other guys into girls and then add new male characters. They are getting modern by the fact that women are now fighter pilots and soldiers and not just the bambi the love godess characters of the 1970's.

Heh well that's the oppinion of a guy who was raised around kickass girls since i was a wee boy anyway :-).

[ October 06, 2003, 19:49: Message edited by: Starhawk ]