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Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed
Dave Knott writes "Entertainment Weekly reports that Universal Pictures has confirmed rumours of a Battlestar Galactica feature film. Directed by Bryan Singer, and co-produced by original series creator Glen Larson, the new movie will not be related to the recently concluded SyFy Network series. Rather, it will be a 'complete re-imagining of the sci-fi lore that was invented by Larson back in the '70s.'"
He got it. He didn't merely fixate on that one aspect of the original.
Fortunately, he did seem to really "get it" and tried to focus on the
character aspects of the original series that were really the heart of
the success of the original series.
TOS was all about Kirk+Spock+McCoy. Space and the future human nirvana
was just the backdrop. Trek starts to reek not when it forgets about
the cuddly teddy bears but when it forgets it's about people/characters.
Trek succeeds only when it doesn't deviate too far from being a Forbidden
Planet knockoff.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Which was itself a knockoff of The Tempest.
And I'm not required to watch the drek the movie'll be.
But even if every bit of onscreen violence is taken out, the main idea that mankind has almost been obliterated and is now being hunted by remorseless machines is adult and not all that suitable for kids.
I wasn't proposing having the BSG movie be "Elmo in Space." I'd be perfectly willing to bring my older kids to a movie with space fights, Centurions vs. Colonial warriors shooting each other with side-arms, etc. Even with scenes showing the nuking of their home planet and possibly having to leave some behind.
What I won't bring my kids to is babies having their necks snapped, or the sex scene where the Cylon skin-job mounted on top of Baltar, with her spine lighting up as she has an orgasm.
I really don't care whether or not a BSG movie exists with the qualities described in the paragraph immediately above this one. Have a blast. I'm just saying I hope there's a movie in the BSG franchise that has the cool stuff I liked from the 70's series, without the stuff that makes me unwilling to bring my kids to mentioned in the paragraph above. I'm really pretty baffled as to why this is such an inflamatory view.
I don't think we're talking about the same thing, since the first Battlestar Galactica was a 1978 TV series...I was in elementary school when it came out.
Perhaps you're confusing its timeframe with Star Trek: The Next Generation, which did start its run in 1987?
I know for some of you young'uns, any date before 1990 is all the same, but some of us were actually around back then and remember watching these shows on their first run.
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I find it rare that I ever chime in with someone using all caps in their post... but I couldn't agree more. This is exactly how I felt after seeing the finale.
Really? All 40 thousand survivors + whatever Cylons there were are just going to give up their understanding about the entire universe and not teach it to their children or leave some sort of octagonal stone/metal records behind? I can understand Lee Adama (a non-scientist soldier who was just fed up with the war and all and blamed the existence of nuclear bombs on the evil SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY) deciding to go all hermit-action. I can even understand a majority of the uneducated masses doing that. But everyone? Really? I mean, after basically insinuating that Doc Cottle was the sole physician in the fleet they pulled a frakking neurosurgeon (John Hodgman you rule) out of their ass in the final season. We have to assume there are quite a few educated others in the fleet that, even if they wouldn't be super excited about building a modern city right away, would at least be able to separate the evils of the application of technology (war and such) from the advantages that come from understanding the world around them. The Adamas can drive all their technology and records and books into the sun, but they can't take away all these people's lifetime education. Even Gaius Baltar is going to start farming... did anyone catch that? That's right, the agricultural revolution actually started 140,000 years before you think it did.
I mean, where do you draw the line at where "technology" is, anyway? What, are they going to take away the hunting spears from the native humans and say "NO! TECHNOLOGY BAD!" After really liking the whole series for four seasons, like the parent post says, they pull classic hippie / not-thinking-the-concept-through / technology-and-science-is-inferior-to-"nature"-even-though-it's-a-part-of-it crap.
DS9 only got good when they hired 1/2 the creative people off of B5
Which creative people would that be? There were 110 B5 episodes. Of those 92 were written by JMS. All 44 episodes of seasons 3 and 4 were scripted by him.
because fox said (You guessed it) B5 is cancelled.
That would be a peculiar thing for Fox to say, as B5 was produced by Warner Brothers and aired in syndication.
Amazingly they recanted
not quite... what happened is that TNT agreed to pick up the show.
which is why the last season of B5 was crap they had lost 1/2 their talent and squeezed the last 2 years of story arc into season 4 to finish the series.
The only person I recall leaving was Claudia Christian who played Cmdr Ivanova.
Damn you FOX!!
Fox had nothing to do with anything.
Good post. Next time try some facts.