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Olmos Tells Fans: "Don't Watch Galactica"
Obiwan Kenobi writes "Edward James Olmos, in a meeting with a group of TV Critics, did something unbelievable: he pleaded with them to tell their readers not to watch the new Battlestar Galactica remake on the Sci-Fi Channel: 'I must say one thing and will say this very clearly, if you are a person who really has a strict belief in the original, I would not advise that you watch this program. It'll hurt them.'"
From everything I've read or heard about this miniseries (including conversations with some SciFi channel employees assigned to the project), it is exceptionally more crapacular than Episode I and Higherlander 2 combined.
Avoid avoid avoid...
Poor bastard.
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I don't know, that Ben Affleck/J Lo remake of Casablanca is sure to kick the crap out of the original.
Oh wait...
In a related story, William Shatner wants people to watch ST:TNG, DS9, VOYAGER, and ENTERPRISE, because they're "da bomb."
'if you are a person who really has a strict belief in the original, I would not advise that you watch this program. It'll hurt them.'
"On the other hand," he continued, "If you really have a strict belief in the original, watching this probably won't make your life any worse."
Your Reverse-psychology-fu is useless against my hazy recollection of C-3PO wannabes with KITT eyes and creepy cyborg bear-things!
Ceci n'est pas un post.
I just might watch.
I believe it was Harlan Ellison who called the original series "Battlestar Galaxative".
"Despite thousands of manhours spent honing the concept, we were unable to make it as suckey as the original. We apologize for this, as we know that the medicore acting, idiotic scripts, irritaing kid and robot, and repetitive battle scenes were integral to making Battlestar Galactica what it was, but they just set the bar too low for us to crawl under. Again, we apologize, and we'll be using all the skills Hollywood is known for to make sure the series becomes more wretched and unwatchable as time goes on, climaxing in the premier of Galactica 2005. Thank you."
Maybe if they kept the theme music and threw every other "classic" element away...
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Plus he'll get Hoss to beat you up.
Best way to get people to do something is to tell them not to!
Does the reverse also work? Let's try:
Buy Windows! It's all integrated and driven by PowerPoint and Clippy to think for you.
Table-ized A.I.
Both of them
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
The Star Trek folks even figured out how to deal with the now-famous actor (read $$) problem. Cancel the series and start a new one. Frequently.
I'm offended, but can't quite figure out where the error in that statement is
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
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Yeah, not mention really, really bad physics.
Col. Tigh: We're dangerously low on fuel
Cmdr. Adama: Bring the fleet to a halt.
Uh... yeah... must be because of all that interstellar drag. The next line should have been:
Col. Tigh: I said WE'RE LOW ON FUEL.
But in all honesty, I was so young when Galactica was made, I really just watched it because I liked to pretend I was Boxie... a six yaron old snot nosed brat living on the coolest ship in a rag-tag fugitive fleet, fleeing the Cylon tyranny.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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...As long as they have the original music, it can't be bad :) OOOOOOWWWWW!!!!! that hurt! I can still remember, even as i watched the original series as a snotty nosed 10 somewhat years old, cringing when i saw the scenes of their 'parties' That made me really mad, like this is the future, all metallicky-silvery hi-tech stuf, and they are dancing on some kinda waterded down muzak disco stuff, 'dancing' with stupid colored err... tubes in their hands, boy oh boy, was i pissed when i saw that, it was sooooo bad. Of course, now, seeing where the music bizz is heading, these days, maybe they WERE right.... /shudder/
If you have a "strict belief" in sci-fi, you're setting yourself up for a whole world of hurt.
I wonder how well she can pull off the cigar smoking, womanizer role.
At least the XXX remake "BattleWhore Ejactica" was profitable, albeit derivative...
Its just not going to be the same without Face from the A-Team. I always wanted to see the cross over where the Cylons captured Face + The Rest of the A-Team and then out of a the pieces of their jail cell they created a tank/car, resuce everyone, ended the war and no-one actually got killed :)
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Olmos probably will be - the comment is a bit of a Gaff, isn't it? ;)
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Hmm.... I wonder which was harder to follow, Battlestar Gallactica or Galactica 1980? For that matter, which was worse: Battlestar Gallactica or Logan's Run, the series. Add the Planet of the Apes TV series and we have a good poll.
That face scared the crap out of me when I saw it at the end of Star Trek many, many years ago.
I'm now scarred for life.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
The new series will examine why humans are inferior and why Cylons are obligated to wage total war to eliminate human evil.
Yes, and I think the general reaction of the Cylons should be one of insoucience. Rather than getting all worked up about "human evil," they should simply have a meeting in which they decide that the only reasonable response to this problem is the genocidal elimination of the human race.
The point of series then becomes the preposterous striving of the human characters in the face of this perfunctory act of bureaucratic expediency.
I have heard mention of "The Next Generation", isn't that a DVD copy of the Star Trek series? And I don't know why DS9 is mentioned so much, 9mm is only 10% wider than my 8mm film.
Homer's brain: Use reverse psychology.
Homer: Oh, that sounds too complicated.
Homer's brain: Okay, don't use reverse psychology.
Homer: Okay, I will!
"...he turned Battlestar Galactica into a soft-porn flick..."
"...I doubt there are a lot of people that will watch it..."
Both of these cannot be true.
I guess someone doesn't watch his daily interval of anime.
Which frequently goes a little something like:
Wake Up.
Strech luxuriantly in light clingly sleep clothes.
Playful lesbian tickle fights.
Giggles.
Talking.
Explosions.
Shower Scene.
Existential Monologue.
Follow up on a clue.
Miracle of technology.
Our heroine cowboys the fork up.
More bigger explosions.
Talking which diminishes todays victory...
...and sets up next weeks episode.
Add work for washed up strippers working off their simply adequate implants to that list, and it comes pretty damn close to what Battlestar Galactica appears to be.
(I always thought anyone on slashdot who didn't keep up with their daily anime and 80's music intervals would be summarily retired by Christian Bale.)
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
Sounds truly awful, except for the soft-porn bit. Hell, I thought the original was soft-porn. Of course to a horny little boy, Cassi and Athena and skin tight costumes... they didn't actually have to do anything to get the effect. ;)
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Friends don't let friends enable ecmascript.
Battlestar Galactica line: Cylons at 10 Angstroms!
Friends mom: Wow, that's close enough for sex.
Us (ignorant kids): huh?
Did I somehow slip into Bizarro world? :)
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I kept looking for Hoss.
It might have improved it if he had shown up.
The problem is Sci-Fi is wasting their money on "Sci-Fi Originals" such as:
* Tremors - Does anyone even watch this show? Holy crap it's bad.
* Crossing Over - You might as well take a power drill to the temple of your head.
* Dune/Children of Dune - I'm not a big fan of the original Dune movie, so I gave these a chance. They're awful. The original movie is better.
* Riverworld - Who watched this? If you did, can you explain to me what was going on, and what the purpose of the film was? Thanks.
These sci-fi original movies haven't even aired yet, but look ridiculous:
* Alien Hunter - The commercials make it look awful and the plot synopsis sounds like a rehash of a dozen other sci-fi flicks/shows.
* Encrypt - Wow. A prison with a state of the art security system set in the future. Sounds an awful lot like FORTRESS. You know, the ones that did so well for Christopher Lambert.
* Soulkeeper - I don't even have to mock this. Look at the short description from scifi.com: "A pair of thieves, hired to steal a stone that can raise the dead, go up against a Biblical bad guy who wants to use it to create an army of evil dead!" Scary!
* Deep Shock - Environmentalists unite! One day nature will bite us back in the ass. No really!
* Webs - Too awful for words. Eight Legged Freaks was funny because it was campy and wasn't taking itself seriously. This movie is, and isn't even slated to be a comedy.
Anyhow, maybe I'm just a little bitter over them cancelling Farscape, one of the greatest sci-fi tv shows of all time.
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