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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.'"
Here's his personal website: http://members.aol.com/mbeve10258/EddieOlmos.html? mtbrand=AOL_US and here's another page about all this: http://members.aol.com/ejowebmistress/BSG.html?mtb rand=AOL_US
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Olmos said that FANBOYS of the old series should not watch the new series because they backstory was thrown out and a new one created. He never said people in GENERAL should not watch it.
Oops, I think I multi posted this by accident. Sorry.
There's already a movie been made on the Book of Mormon. This movie is not sponsored by the church in any way either. It will be out in theaters in September.
So when it comes to legal issues, this Book of Mormon movie would easily be a problem, just like you said. However, when the church leadership has been asked on these types of movies, they allow people to make these kinds of commercial adventures, without any opinions on the matter.
Not likely, 90% of the fans were already planning on not watching, and sci-fi (and everybody involved) knows it. The Battlestar Galactica buletin at the sci-fi channel is full of complaints, "I am not going to watch because...", and leaks about the re-imagining of the series. The re-imagining is based off of the Battlestar Galactica movie, and all changes were made based on the so-called flaws of it.
In fact most of them are planning on boycotting anybody who advertises during the mini-series. It's a poor script, and Ronald Moore has a lot of sexual issues (he turned Battlestar Galactica into a soft-porn flick).
I hang out at the Sci-fi Board for Battlestar Galactica. There is very little support for this re-imaging on the boards. In fact, a couple of people started to fabricate A LOT of personalities to generate support for this re-imaging. In fact it pissed off Mr. Moore (Mr. Mooron) that he wrote a note on the web telling the people to knock it off.
I doubt there are a lot of people that will watch it. The only resemblance it has to the original is it's name.
Most of the characters in the re-imagine have major problems and can't be considered heros anymore. Starbuck and Boomer are Females now (just for the sake of the femist cause!)!!! The cylons were made by humans and now look like humans. There is no longer 12 planets with 12 colonies. There is 1 planet with 12 colonies that are technophobic. Baltar doesn't betray the human race on purpose (so he can rule his people). He is seduced by a female cylon.
That just the high-lights. Check out BattlestarGalactica.com and search for the miniseries articles, and check out my earlier comment for more information.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
In the original comic, the turtles were almost as
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people and utterly destroy private property to get
at him and it ROCKED. God I hope when you say
it's darker, they captured the feel of the comic
perfectly.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
In short, he is NOT saying that he thinks the current BG project is of poor quality but rather that die-hard Galactica fans might not like the changes.
I think most of his attitude is probably being caused by the fact that there are probably some shrill BG geeks keeping close track of production and e-mailing him with their complaints.
Did the story arc ever explain why everyone spoke perfect English, used Grecco-Roman names, and were looking for 1970s Earth?
It kind of did. Though they never address the language thing.
There were 13 colonies of these space-faring folk. 12 of them were named after birth signs, and the 13th one didn't have a name, but they set sail and ended up founding earth. Thus the egyptian architecture and greco-roman names were all artifacts of the fact that they all come from the same planet and then branched out into space. Why the 13th colony decided to give up on technology after arriving on earth, I dunno.
Anyway, the Cylons apparently make peace with the 12 high tech colonies, but in reality they were just maneuvering for a suprise attack. They destroyed all 12 home worlds and all the battlestars except Galactica (and Pegasus, but we don't find that out until later). The remaining humans quickly figure out that chasing a pipedream towards the fabled 13th colony (which they've only heard in their mythology) is their best bet.
So they take whatever ships they have that are still usable (rag-tag fugitive fleet) and high tail it out of there (fleeing the Cylon tyranny). Every so often they stumble across a cylon outpost and have to blow stuff up.
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Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
I'm sure I'm not the only kid who was scarred for life back in 1980 by this travesty inflicted upon humanity.
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