Battlestar Galactica On SciFi Channel

[Atrocities]

Comparing BSG to SW is like comparing Air Combat in California to Air Combat in Florida. Space fighter combat in both BSG and SW are simular because that is how we preceive fighter combat for space. The fact that they are simular is by design and concept. No one has the right to "claim" the style as their own.

Vipers look nothing like X-Wings IMHO. Cylon Fighters look nothing like TIE Fighters. A Battlestar and a Basestar have no resemeblence to anything seen in Star Wars. Lucas lost his case, and we lost BSG. Thank George.

Remember BSG was sued by the guy who made Howard the Duck.

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, now that was a nifty show. Corney by todays standards, but in the day it was a great Thursday night flick. I still love thinking about Erin (Wilma) for she was one very attactive women and I guess she still is. Do any of you remember the episode where Whilma and another women were locked inside of a hot room filled with steam? Ohhhh ya baby, for a 13 year old that was like pure gold.

Any one here recently listen to BSG Main title theme? I need to get that on P2P as I can not find it on any CD any where.

[ October 07, 2003, 10:15: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
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.

Uh, actually I think maybe you need to brush up on your old episodes. They had one female viper pilot on a regular basis. I can't remember her name but I think it was Appollo's sister. And she was always whining that they never let her fly combat and made her fly the shuttles. It was all very 70's TV war of the sexes crap. Finally they had one episode where all the male pilots got sick and the women folk had to defend the fleet. After that episode though they went back to just male pilots for the most part, although the one girl did get to be a regular member of the viper squadrons after that.

My first impression of making Starbuck a woman was "you got to be kidding me!". I am all for adding more strong female characters but I thought it would have been better to simply add them as new characters that weren't in the original. But after reading some of the back story it actually sounds like it might be kind of interesting. And it doesn't hurt that the actress they got to play her is HOT!

I have decided I am going to watch the new series and just take it on it's own merits. Instead of looking for discrepancies I am going to watch it as a totally new story and decide if I like it or not based on that. The original series was cool for the time and one of my favorite shows growing up, but in retrospect sucked pretty badly. I tried catching them on sci-fi a few months back and they were frankly unwatchable except for making fun of.

[Mudshark]

I just wonder if they are going to recycle the same space scenes 1,000 times like in the original series?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Mudshark:
I just wonder if they are going to recycle the same space scenes 1,000 times like in the original series?

Oh yeah, that same scene of the cylons approaching and rolling over into a dive every time there was an attack. That one became so ubiquitous it was in an RCA TV commercial for a while. Then there is the one they play every time a viper got behind one of the cylons: cut to an interior of a cylon fighter and the pilot looks back over his shoulder just before the ship explodes.

One of the nice things about the computer generated effects is once you set the basic paramaters and elements of the shot you can run it from different angles and what not and make several shots that look nothing alike. So hopefully no.

[Prince Xizor]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, now that was a nifty show. Corney by todays standards, but in the day it was a great Thursday night flick. I still love thinking about Erin (Wilma) for she was one very attactive women and I guess she still is. Do any of you remember the episode where Whilma and another women were locked inside of a hot room filled with steam? Ohhhh ya baby, for a 13 year old that was like pure gold.

*nods*
"Planet of the Slave Girls" had to be the best episode for that reason alone.

[Prince Xizor]

Good news for fans of the original BSG, and those of us too cheap to buy the DVD (I don't even have a DVD player yet ): SciFi will be airing selected episodes from the original series all day next Monday 10/13, 9am-5pm EST, starting with the 3-hour series premiere. So get your VCRs ready!

"By your command!"

http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/ind...TICA&x=192&y=2

[Starhawk]

Yeah I saw the ep of Buck Rogers....in 2002 (as I wasn't even around when it first aired). I was thinking "Well the plot is kind of lame but....wow look a tall that steam ).

As for the New Battlestar Galactica here's my oppinion in a nice ordered number list of why I'll probobly give it a shot:

1. Starbuck being a woman is kind of cool BECAYSE of the fact that Starbuck is Apallo's best friend, they are trying to show that a woman and a man can be the closest of friends while not having a cheesy love interest or sexual tension between them.

2. Boomber going from a short black guy to a short asian girl I also have no problem with (partly because of the fact that it's Grace Park ) and because although it looks like she might have a love interest it also doesn't look like it's gonna be one of the main characters which is always a good thing. And I always liked a cute lady that can kickass with the best of em.

3.The ships all look really good, including the revamped Vipers.

4. I got a glimpse of the Neo-Cylon battledroids and trust me you guys will not likely be disapointed.

5. YES the CYLONS are the badguys they turned evil of their own "choice" I guess, but yeah they are the evil imperialistic robots we've all come to know and love in the original series.

6. The female pilot from the original series "Sheeba" when she wasn't flying her fighter was buisy crying about one thing or another so I'm glad to see her gone.

7. Sci-Fi usually does a good job at remakes as we saw with Frank Hurburts DUNE and a few others.