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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.
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.
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!
I mean, Starbuck was the womanizer - the fighter pilot stereotype.
So why can't a woman do this? I think America is ready for a kick-ass lesbian who drags her scores back to the cave for some hot stuff.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
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
" I don't know about a female Starbuck" What about *the* female *of* Starbucks.... in a soon issue of Playboy... I am waiting for the women of Waffle house.... -long long dig outa Troll level....
Julius Caesar - Act I, Scene i: "What mean'st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow!"
Sigh. It's OK to invent units. It's not OK to have those units already mean something vastly different in real life.