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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!
The fact that a production companys creativity has dried up so much that they have to remake a mediocre sci-fi program (and spend all the money on special effects no doubt) is very sad.
I would imagine that every year there will be thousands media graduates and new creative writers coming onto the market who would love to have a pop at a large scale production like this.
Either; the big companies are so scared at taking a risk that they just tart-up the same old crap, or all these new brains on the market are not up to the job (unlikley)
when something slightly new and fresh comes along in this niche marketplace (e.g. Farscape) the public lap it up (until it gets cancelled)
These people need to remember how to take risks
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.
The real question is, will the new version have all of the thinly disguised mormon doctrine like the original did?
h tml or http://www.lib.msu.edu/lorenze1/bg.htm
See http://www.proaxis.com/~sherlockfam/art5.html or http://home.earthlink.net/~billotto/Mormon_N_BSG.
or anywhere else you can google up from "battlestar galactica" and "mormon".
Let's review:
1. Cancel Farscape because of money.
2. Run non-SF crap like Crossing over and Dream
Team (and soon Scare Tactics).
2. Spend tons of money on Spielberg to do Taken.
3. Spend tons of money on a show that was NEVER
any good (Battlestar Galactica).
I'll be boycotting BSG like I did Taken.
Anyone remember when MTV played music videos? Same thing is happening with SciFi. At some point seing actual science fiction will be a rare oddity on SciFi.
"Population 1,656"
This news is at least a year old! This is the 25th Year Anniversary of the original series. This is just a mini-series. This is going to suck! Nobody likes what they have done. There are SEVERAL petitions to stop this from airing! The fans and Richard Hatch (Appolo from the series) have been trying to get a continuation of the original series. Richard Hatch has written 4 books continuing the saga. This site is a great place to get the information on the new mini series.
Where to start. There is no more 12 colonies on 12 planets. There is 12 colonies on 1 planet. The cylons weren't created a reptilian race. The cylons were created by the humans to fight each other. All the characters are pale shadows of themselves. Anything that made them look and act like a hero is gone. Starbuck & Boomer are both now woman. Mr. Moore turned this once great show into a social propaganda engine. Don't expect this to be anything like the original because he is basing this on the the original Battlestar Galactica movie which was the first few episodes of the show and does have a lot of the character development.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
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.