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Battlestar Galactica to Return
Chris Curtin writes "Looks like SciFi channel is redoing the classic series! I don't know about a female Starbuck but it might be interesting." I can't picture a Galactica without Lorne Green. So long as they don't bring back that stupid robot dog, it might be okay.
As long as they use their one special effect (launching the fighters out of the tube) at least 30 times an episode, I'll be happy.
No, really.
..........FULL STOP.
That's like re-doing Barberella with Ben Affleck in the title role.
I mean, Starbuck was the womanizer - the fighter pilot stereotype. I can see writing female pilots to play off the stereotype, or rewriting some of the tremendously shallow female characters of the show (Athena, Cassiopaea), but Starbuck?
Worse/Better Analogy: It's like remaking the A-Team with J-Lo as Face. (March 1 is "Let's Pick on Dirk Benedict Day")
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They're all related to Red Green.
I can't picture a Galactica without Loren Green.
Well now we have Lauren Green, I can stand to watch her all day!
Also, I hope the wardrobe departments continue the Science Fiction media tradition, tighter clothes and less of them on the chicks please. Stop underestimating slutty so much and PLEASE higher heels!
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Boogie Nights vs Battlestar Galactica
... Dirk!
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Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
I guess the fact that the Cylons couldn't hit a planet at 500 feet was the only things that kept the humans alive.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
I hope Sony doesn't pay for Aibo product placement.
Isn't he that incredibly cruel guy from the dog food commercials? You know:"This is Max. He's 12 years old. That's 84 years old in people years. (throws stick)Here, Max, run boy!"
Man, if he did that to my gramps, I'd kick his ass.
The Democratic Party: We've been pussies since 1968!
Who hears the Comic Book Store Guy in my head as I read all of these Lorne Greene corrections?
Worst. Remake. Ever.
Well, you didn't spend a few seconds checking that nobody else had made exactly the same comment.
Fuck the dog, more Jar-jar!
They're so bankrupt of ideas they're starting to remake shows that sucked. On the bright side, it probably can't be any worse than the original.
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I mean, in the last series it took them 20 years, and a weedy space albino, to figure out that if they run for Earth then the Cylons can just hang back and fry them and our mostly harmless selves when contact's made. What's a two decade wait to a galactic empire of robots? How's about this time we organise an online petition to tell those dumbass Galacticans to stay the hell away from Earth?
Also, there's the question of their immigration status. Now, they can't really claim to be asylum seekers 'cos they started the war with the Cylons in the first place by being a big bunch of Buttinskis and not letting the Cylons subjugate a vassal race as they saw fit (subjugation's kinda the point in being Galactic Overlords after all...) It'd be funny of they got to Earth and the Department of Homeland Security just stuck them in a camp.
Thinking about it that way, the smartest thing we could do when the Galactican's arrive is stick them in a camp. Then when the Cylons turn up we cosy up to them and point out that our most powerful nations are those with the strongest rule of law, and by the way have you thought about extraditing the Galacticans to Cylon as war criminals? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they commit genocide when they destroyed a planet in the movie? "Oh, it was just an 'accident', was it? Well I'm very sure that if you're innocent then you'll have nothing to fear at trial. On Cylon."
Then we're well in with our new alien masters, obviously being a different, more pragmatic breed of humanity and a bright shining future awaits humanity as the Cylons' premier client race.
It's what I'd do.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors - Plato
Here we are about to go to war and people have their undies in a knot over a television show. Maybe George Bush is representative of the American intellect.
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I never noticed this, but if you listen carefully to that sound that thing makes, it sounds a lot like "Jar Jar....Jar Jar"
Coincidence, I think not.
Wait a minute, that chain of coffee shops has nothing to do with Battlestar Galactica? Who knew? Damn, now I have to sell my stock. Send in John Ashcroft!
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
I doubt he's still 12.
I'm all for NT 4.0 seeing as they how bad they suck, but it would be a bit funny if they said they ran BEOS or something like that *grin*.
Maybe a poll would be good,
option D. Cylons are just Cowboy Neal in Metal-Drag
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
sir, you apprear to have dropped your handbag, would you like me to pick it up for you.
Sigh. It's OK to invent units. It's not OK to have those units already mean something vastly different in real life.
I still have a crush on Sheba
Fuck the dog, Jar-jar! Screw the pooch!
> Mormonism: religion -> science fiction
> Scientology: science fiction -> religion
Thanks, dude. Now they have to kill all of us.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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I would have volunteered to help her with her breathing.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Not only was that effect used over and over BG, but also in a really awful Z-grade BG-ripoff movie called "Space Mutiny" riffed ever-so-eloquently by Mystery Science Theater 3000.
What was even funnier is that they used the shot of launching fighters as though there were launching MISSILES at the "space pirates" (whose ships bear a striking resemblance to cylon battleships). You can clearly see that those are fighters being launched, yet the plot claims they are missles. The "battle" lasts about 5 seconds (no exaguration here!) after which they quickly jump to some already-seen footage of the bridge crew partying!
Sick individual that I am, I actually rented "Space Mutiny" to watch it in its unmitigated awfulness. Picture a space opera filmed almost entirely in an abandoned factory of some sort, and a couple of drop-ceiling offices with surplus late-80's office computer equipment, with costumes consisting almost entirely of lycra.
Whenever I think of Space Mutiny the words "railing kill" spring to mind! Pretty much every single person who dies in this movie does so by falling off the railings in the factory that is supposed to be the engine room of their ship!
This is one of the best MST3K episodes ever and you can download it off of KaZaA. The commander looks exactly like Santa Claus, a woman gets killed and then is clearly visible in the background of the next scene, the hero demonsrates his courage by setting his disabled opponent on fire, and the climactic chase scene at the end with in those rediculous golfcart buggies must be seen to be believed. Do yourself a favor and download it today! Best. MST3K. Ever.
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Neh, he reportedly couldn't make it... to busy fighting the bad guys with Hannibal, Murdock and B.A.
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Well, it's pretty much understood to be one nation under Cthulhu by now.
(Only two or three more groups to destroy and we control the world!)
So long as they don't bring back that stupid robot dog, it might be okay
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