New Galactica Series

[ZeroAdunn]

You know, I thoroughly enjoyed riddick. It took all these sci fi cliches (old and new) and rolled them into one batch of gimmickee goodness. I mean, the names alone drew me in, The Necromongers, The Furians, Etc... I mean, come on, how can you not love this stuff.

[Makinus]

Riddick is cool, but you can see that it was inspired in the Dune mini-series... (not the sons of dune, or the original Dune movie, but the Dune miniseries... i found it on DVD some time ago and bought it and it is a faithful rendition of the first Dune book from Frank Herbert)

[Atrocities]

Oh don't get me wrong, Riddick was a great sequal to Pitch Black which was one of the most under rated movies of year. I remember posting here about Pitch Black and recommending it to people. Riddick was a great departure from the norm and that alone made it worth seeing. However the story was convoluted and seemed more toward a video game than an actual attempt at movie making. Basically it made you take a huge leap of faith from the universe set up by pitch black to the one they showed in Riddick. In essence, the two movies are as differant from each other as Star Wars is from Ground Hog Day. The only simularity are the characters and the desire to create a franchise for Vin. (I like Vin, I think he is one of the better action / drama / talented actors to come down the pipe in many years.)

Riddick was a very stylish movie, but IMHO definatly not better than Star Wars, but worlds better than PM or AOTC.

And no, no plans for any Stargate ship sets. Although they should have made a FPS adventure game based on the series years ago. The one they have planned now is a day late and two dollars short.

[David E. Gervais]

I saw a preview of the new BSG series and it looks like Richard Hatch will be joining the cast, cool! Maybe I'll start watching it now. (Who's next? Dirk Bennedict? after all I haven't seen him since he did the A-Team, he must still be around.)

Cheers!

[geoschmo]

David E. Gervais said:
I saw a preview of the new BSG series and it looks like Richard Hatch will be joining the cast, cool! Maybe I'll start watching it now. (Who's next? Dirk Bennedict? after all I haven't seen him since he did the A-Team, he must still be around.)

Cheers!

You know David, if you didn't spend all your time in those silly post padding threads you'd have already known about Hatch's reocurring guest role when we discussed it here a couple weeks ago.

[David E. Gervais]

geoschmo said:
You know David, if you didn't spend all your time in those silly post padding threads you'd have already known about Hatch's reocurring guest role when we discussed it here a couple weeks ago.

What?.. post padding thread? I'm innocent I say, it's not a silly thread, it's the foundation for the new cantina... wait a sec, the cantina is going to be a silly post-padding thread when it opens, so I guess your right, and it looks like we're off to a great start if even you think it's silly.

But it's a happy thread, really, it is.

Cheers!

[gregebowman]

David E. Gervais said:
I saw a preview of the new BSG series and it looks like Richard Hatch will be joining the cast, cool! Maybe I'll start watching it now. (Who's next? Dirk Bennedict? after all I haven't seen him since he did the A-Team, he must still be around.)

Cheers!

I don't know if you saw the BSG Lowdown special, but Dirk was in it, and he didn't look in too good of a shape. I don't know if he has any health issues, but he sure did look sickly in that special. He's no longer The Face, that's for sure. Hopefully in the year or so since that was filmed, he has fared better and looks better.

As far as Richard Hatch, I know someone mentioned that he would appear in the series, but I didn't know when. When I saw the episode the other day, I was wondering why they were giving that terrorist leader such a close-up. I didn't recognize him at first. True, it's been 27 years since BSG's been out, but I just couldn't see the old Apollo in that face. Hopefully we'll see him from time to time during the length of the show.

AT, I still don't know what kind of satellite hook-up you have, but I sure wish I had it. So far in the states, they've only shown 3 episodes, and here you go seeing all 13. Don't give out any spoilers, though, as I want to be surprised as you were. Hopefully we won't have to wait a year after the season is over for the dvd to come out.

[Randallw]

I don't know if you saw the BSG Lowdown special, but Dirk was in it, and he didn't look in too good of a shape. I don't know if he has any health issues, but he sure did look sickly in that special. He's no longer The Face, that's for sure. Hopefully in the year or so since that was filmed, he has fared better and looks better.

Dirk Benedict probably looks terrible (I don't know for certain as I haven't seen a picture of him for years, except a b-grade tv movie once) because he uses a special diet. I can't say for certain that it is the same one, but he follows one of those diets like eating nothing and only drinking water for 3 weeks. He once had colon cancer and he swears the special diet got rid of it.

[Atrocities]

Actually he still looks like Dirk. A bit older, but still like Dirk. I do hope they find a guest spot for him. Perhas as the Lead cyclon design, Cyclon human model 001. Oh that would be a real gas.