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New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
Trunks writes "A few days ago the Sci Fi Channel officially announced a 13 episode season for Ronald Moore's Battlestar Galactica remake. Looks like they'll be bringing back most of the cast members, including Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell. The new series will begin a few days after the miniseries that aired a few months back. Production commences next month in Vancouver, B.C." This had been speculated previously, and the rumors are indeed true.
Lucite hardening ... must end life in classic Lorne Greene pose from "Battlestar Galactica." Best ... death ... ever!
I watched that show thinking it would be laughable, but I wound up enjoying it.
Ballistic missiles over beam weapons. Mmmm.
But they have to bring back the original theme song.
Kill, Tux, kill!
Are we really so out of ideas?
You must not have seen the billboard ads for the Starsky & Hutch movie, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.
Is the entertainment industry out of ideas? In a word... YES.
"The new series will begin a few days after the miniseries that aired a few months back."
That would either qualify this as OLD news, or
one of the most tortured sentences I've seen in a while....
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Shut the fuck up. You're going to ruin it for everyone else.
Is the space station wheelchair accessible?
The new series will begin a few days after the miniseries that aired a few months back
Now THAT is Sci-Fi... Giving the green light NOW and have it begin a few months back...
Star Wars lumbers on with dialogue-ridden prequels (and yet unseen postquels)
I see you are taking a dim view and assuming that even theoretically speaking, Episodes VII-IX will be unworthy of the title "sequels."
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
Even if I didn't dig the hell out of the mini, I'd watch the series for more Grace Park. =D
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine...
Showing nudity or a pair of boobs is OK, as long as there is a bullet wound between them.
...but are they doing this remake because they cannot think of new ideas for a television show?
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I believe that if the context of the titty shot is justified, then it would be okay.
IE....Secret Agent Timberlake, after relieving many non-americans of the right to live, discovers that Iraq does indeed have at least one Weapon Of Mass Destruction, and in a flurry of last minute fake kung fu moves aganist the royal iraqi guardsmen, he accidentally removes the protective leatherette breastal material of stunned sidekick, Ms. Jackson. This, of course, distracts the "most evil person in the world", just enough to sing an important song about moraility and some such, and then Timberlake, Jackson, and ninja boob, in an array of stuff, manages to make the third world through first world free!
Most excellent.
by the way, your cable rates just went up.
to destroy the human race they create a sexy blonde android that seduces our best programmer
Agreed. It would have been much more realistic if the Cylons had created a middle-aged suit-wearing Business Consultant who outsources Boltar's job to a distant planet.
...shouldn't it be "New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlit?"
While it does hit some formulaic parts, Andromeda, is a pretty good sci-fi series, especially when compared to a lot of the swill out there.
The setup: Hunt, commander of a high guard star ship, one of the most powerful in the Commonwealth screws up and gets to close to a black hole. A few hundred years (500?) later, thanks to an event that took place hundreds of years ago, his ship finally breaks free of the pull of the black hole and he emerges into a universe where the Commonwealth no longer exists anymore. Hunt who is completely lost decides, with a rag tag group who was trying to salvage his ship, to rebuild the Commonwealth. So along they go traveling all over the universe breaking the occasional law of physics but never to the point of completely insulting you repeatedly in each episode.
The best part overall, Commander Hunt, much like the first great space commander (Kirk), sees it as his duty to hit lots of alien booty.
--- I do not moderate.
I figured the 13th episode would be the "lost" one.
New series greenlighted. New nouns verbed. Here's Tom with the weather!
I watched the new Battlestar Galactica, and I actually liked it. So starving for more BG I ordered the original series from Netflix. I liked the first multi-part episode of the original series, but after that they were all crap. All the plots are as follows -- Apollo marooned on a planet, Starbuck marooned on a planet, Apollo and Starbuck marooned on a planet. Arggh! I hope the new series actually lives up to the pilot episode.
To all those who did not like the new episode, watch it again. I didn't like it at first, but it grew on me. The acting is first rate and all the characters are very likeable.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Lois, this isn't my Batman glass. - Peter
Thats what backups are for :)
:) :) :) :P
Also they have redundancy
Why else did they call their fighter craft
RAIDer's ??????
Have they changed Starbuck's name to avoid and law suits?
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
So in Canada, the pentagon only has four sides? You guys always get screwed on the exchange rate.
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
> Sci-fi should have let Richard Hatch do his follow-up idea
No, I dont think THAT would be a good idea...
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Where else would you film a show with a character named Starbuck but in Vancouver. There has to be about a thousand Starbucks in Downtown alone. (I've never been to Seattle but I can't imagine they have more Starbucks then Vancouver.)
"bated" = held back
"baited"= ready to be bitten by a fish
Your post title suggests a very unpleasant halitosis, sorry.
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Well, you have to admit, they're really acute.
I, for one, welcome our cyborg, human-like, sex-crazed overlords!
By filming in Canada, the production companies don't have to pay union rates to the hordes of support personal required to make the films. This out sourcing significantly brings down costs, while still providing a location with white, English-speaking extras and close proximity to the US, to accommodate "name" US actors.
Not only can we speak English in Canada, we can even spell personnel. You're of English descent... learn the language!
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
First of all, I can't see how anyone could have honestly modded this as off topic.
Second, God I hope so! The biggest difference to me between the SciFi channel series and the original is that I really want to see Starbuck naked in this one.
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