The new Battlestar Galactica on SciFi

[Mark Lamutt]

One of those blondes being Starbuck... :rolleyes:

After hearing about the changes that they are making to "modernize" the franchise, I just about have no desire to watch it.

[invaliduser88]

With Ron Moore penning the new script, there is some hope.

[BobMurdoch]

Originally posted by Mark Lamutt
One of those blondes being Starbuck... :rolleyes:

After hearing about the changes that they are making to "modernize" the franchise, I just about have no desire to watch it.

What are the changes being done? I have heard zip about it other than the sneak peeks I've seen on Stargate.

[Mark Lamutt]

Starbuck is that really hot blonde that was shown in the previews (aka really hot *female*), the cylons look human...

Lots to read about it at http://battlestarfanclub.com/battlestar/

[BobMurdoch]

Starbuck as a Blonde Woman. OK, I can live with that.
The Cylons looking Human? OK, they played with that idea in Galactica 1980.
Vipers still look like Vipers. Hopefully Cylon Raiders still look like flying skeets.
Edward James Olmos as the leader. OK, we know that works since Miami Vice.

Has anyone else heard of any other "improvements?

[dfergie]

mmm should this not be a new thread? aka. battlestar galactica?

[Mark Lamutt]

Good idea, and it's done. :)

[juan ellitinez]

:barf: :barf: that pretty much says it all

[BobMurdoch]

Originally posted by Mark Lamutt
Starbuck is that really hot blonde that was shown in the previews (aka really hot *female*), the cylons look human...

Lots to read about it at http://battlestarfanclub.com/battlestar/

OK, we know Richard Hatch hates it because he isn't involved, as well as some of the hardcore super-geeks.

I'm going to withhold condemning it until I actually see the the thing and hope for the best. I am happy to see that they are considering using the miniseries as a springboard to a new series. With Farscape gone and Stargate SG-1 limping towards the end of it's own life (barring a spinoff series) SciFi will need any fresh product it can get (the original movies ain't getting it done, although their miniseries have been succesful). Hopefully the producers can throw the old actors a bone if a series takes off with some guest roles which the geeks love (ie. Buster Crabbe showing up in the old Buck Rogers series in the 70's as "Major Gordon" <he played Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon in the old series for you young uns' who don't get the reference>)

I can't lie though, I got a charge out of seeing the vipers again. Olmos walking by the coffins looked like the old CD-ROM game Wing Commander which had a LOT of influences from Galactica.

[djlong]

It just never made sense to me.

Those who didn't like BG won't tune in because they didn't like it.

Those who WERE/ARE fans will be cheesed off by the changes.

If they thought they had a good idea, why not do the time-honored tradition of calling it something else and filing the serial numbers off?

[BobMurdoch]

The BG fans will be cheesed off about the changes..... but will still tune in so they can get content to complain about. Sponsors win anyway.

In the meantime the other 95% of the fans who watched the show and liked it (and occasionally watch reruns on SciFi) will tune in en masse to watch a show that had the largest audience fr a show cancelled (it was ranked #20 in the final rankings at the end of the first season, while in a tough 8pm Sunday time slot (it was against CHiPs at the time). Figure in the fact that this was before the big Cable TV explosion in the burbs and they had a LOT of people that watched the show.

PLUS, the parallels to the current climate in the US is striking. The Pearl Harbor-esque attack that wiped out the fleet had 9/11 parallels. 5 years ago, letting a military mind run the show would have been shunned. Today, with a terrorist "sleeper cell" supposedly operating in every major US city, the American people are more open to the idea of peace through strength and the use of force to achieve it. (I'm not saying I agree with that statement, only the American people seem to have embraced knocking down those who would wish to harm us with a big stick and then tossing it to the sky with Kubrickian glee -- 2001: A Space Odyssey for those that down't get the reference)