Battlestar Galactica On SciFi Channel

[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 ]

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by 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 :-).

Welcome and thanks for the info.

You really should watch the old Version from the late 70's. It debute on September 17th 1978 I believe and was 3 hours long.

Women fighter pilots is nothing new to BSG, as they had them in great numbers in the original series.

The idea of making Starbuck a women is completely lame by any definition. I liked the boomer character, a no bull get it done kind of guy, but if they want to make that character a women, no harm no foul, but Starbuck was Apollos best friend. Changing the character to a women has only one purpose, love interest. Nuff said. (Think 7 of 9 - TaPal - Troi)

The original series was very exciting to watch. The series BSG 1980 was a f--ked up scaled down cost effective POS series. However in that series we did get to meet the first Human Cylon.

The original Cylon race was raptillian and they created the machines to kill the humans. The raptillian cyclons all died off for some reason, not really discussed in the series, leaving the machines to fend for themselves. Ultimatly the Cyclons set up the Colonials and obliterate their fleet say for a handful of Battlestars, the Galactica and the Peguses were two that were featured in the series. The Peguses later was presumed destroyed after she engaged three Cyclon Basestars destroying them all.

The other ships were mentioned in fan lore and books.

If you can get the original BSG series on DVD, and I think you can now, you should invest in it. It was a very good series even by todays standards. The title track is still considered by many to be one of the best ever created.

[Starhawk]

I have managed to watch a great many of the Original BSG episodes recently including the pilot episodes and I must say.....I liked it up until they found Terra.

Other then that I do think that Sci-Fi is sticking pretty much to the storyline cept for Starbuck....and I didn't really like that character much I liked Apallo more.