This mini-series begins Monday on SciFi Channel. Got any opinions on the direction they are taking it?
If it's on Sci Fi then the only direction they'll be taking it is directly south.
Sci Fi is a crappy channel that could be good...but isn't.
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Ooooooh yeah... I'm a huge fan of Battlestar Galactica. all hail the Cylons!!!!
"Sci Fi is a crappy channel that could be good...but isn't."
While I appreciate their occasional Twilight Zone marathons, I have to agree with that statement. Is it me or has anyone else noticed that the f#%$%ers at SciFi channel run about 10-12 minutes or commercials per 30 minutes of air time? And that's not an exaggeration either.
Eventhough it is on SciFi, I will definently watch it. It'll be nice to see some Battlestar after all these years.
Now if only they would remake V................
SciFi is no worse than any other cable channel abou the commercial. I just dislike the way they program their shows. Like they did with Farscape when one time you had to wait 9 months to see a new episode. Then the idiots cancelled it , their number one rated show. Henson and company are making a 4 hour mini-series to tie up the loose ends from the sudden cancellation, only it probably won't show on SciFi. It will probably be sold to syndication.
I really wanted some opinions on the way they are changing Galactica. A lot of fans of the old show were really raising hell about it . I was 23 when the old one was on ABC and it was neat in 1978 because no one had done anything like it on tv, but to tell the truth you can tell the show is really from the 70's. I think it is kind of dated.
I was 8 in 1978 and thought the show was an acceptable surrogate for what I really wanted to be watching, but couldn't on TV at that time: Star Wars. I look at Battlestar Galactica today and I see one awful 70s show...
So do I think the new BG series is sacrelige? Hardly. The original was such garbage, there's really no way to detract from it. BUT - the premise of the original show was good enough that I think it's worth revisiting with a higher production value. I also really liked the Vipers, and think they look even better in the new show.
Vipers = Cool.
I wish the fleet jumped into the Star Wars universe. Vipers Vs. Tie fighters. Star Destrover Vs. Cylon Base star. Baltar getting a light sabre up his ass....
"Cattlcar Galaxitive", as MAD magazine called it, was a cheese fest.Likable Velveeta.
Hummm....a T.V. cheese fest, with Voyage to the bottom of the sea, time tunnel, and battlestar could make good riffing practice.
There's an article in the TV Guide about the mini-series:
According to that article:
WHEN THE CYLON HAS SEX HER SPINE GLOWS RED!
So... You tell me if it's going to be any good.
"Eventhough it is on SciFi, I will definently watch it. It'll be nice to see some Battlestar after all these years."
Not like this....
"the premise of the original show was good enough that I think it's worth revisiting with a higher production value."
Half naked female seduction cylons with glowing red spines, Oh yeah High production values.....
"If it's on Sci Fi then the only direction they'll be taking it is directly south."
It's already gone way past south!
I'm not gonna watch it not a big fan of the new one. I' m still a big fan of the first one I remember watch it in 1978 when I was four years old. Making Boomer and Starbuck women that's reallt mess up.
Boomer *and* Starbuck? I thought it was just Starbuck... why not just make all the characters female then?
I'm going to watch it, but it p**ses me off that Richard Hatch produced a trailer that all the fans loved, but the copyright holders didn't want anything to do with it. When they finally decided to make the miniseries, they didn't want any of the original cast, or to make it a continuation of the original. Sure, don't make what the fans want, make what YOU think the fans should want. :-/
>Half naked female seduction cylons with glowing red spines, Oh yeah High production values.....
What the f@#$k?1 This has to be a joke! Please tell me you're joking.....
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not joking. Look in the TV Guide (It has a NASCAR on the cover).
"they didn't want any of the original cast, or to make it a continuation of the original."
Wasn't the original brought to a conclusion? Didn't they find Earth and lick the Cyclons once and for all? That's one of the things I actually liked about the original - the story was headed somewhere and actually got there instead of just jerking the audience around year after year ala the X-Files.
I have actually seen the red glowing spine on the little special they made about the show. I am going to give this a chance, it has potential if done right.
I think the reason I'm not ranting about this is because I was an adult when the original was ABC on Sunday night. I used to carry my little portable tv to the drive in where I was the cashier ( I was going to school on the GI bill, but extra cash always comes in handy ). It was a cool show for the time, but like I said it is dated now when you watch the reruns.
One of the things I like about SciFi is that they do show old cancelled shows, even if they were only on for half a season. Sometimes it's disappointing because something you thought was so cool when you were in your twenties seems really lame now.
Jamtoy wrote:
> There's an article in the TV Guide about the mini-series:
> According to that article:
>
> WHEN THE CYLON HAS SEX HER SPINE GLOWS RED!
>
Hmm, so she needs to be on top, and you have to have a mirror on the ceiling.
I watched the original, and tried hard to like it, but there was something about it that just didn't work for me. I'm actually optimistic.
>Wasn't the original brought to a conclusion? Didn't they find Earth and lick the
>Cyclons once and for all? That's one of the things I actually liked about the
>original - the story was headed somewhere and actually got there instead of just
>jerking the audience around year after year ala the X-Files.
Not exactly. Battlestar Galactica ended with no resolution to the story. A couple years later they made Galactica 1980 with only the characters of Adama, Tigh and Boomer returning. They find Earth, but decide that it's too primitive to help them, so they send down a couple warriors and a bunch of kids to learn about Earth while the Galactica leads the cylons away. This was done so that they could save on special effects and it sucked. They actually had flying motorcycles!
Most fans of the show would rather forget that it exists. The only episode worth watching is the one that shows how Starbuck got stranded on a planet with a cylon and they become friends, although even that one had to wimp out and give the cylon a more human sounding voice.
>One of the things I like about SciFi is that they do show old cancelled shows,
>even if they were only on for half a season.
No, they USED to do that, and still do occasionally for popular shows like BG, but there have been a lot of short-lived shows recently that SciFi hasn't touched. Just off the top of my head;
Nightman - 2-3 seasons in syndication.
Freakylinks - One season on Fox.
Lone Gunmen - One season on Fox.
All Souls - Six episodes on UPN.
Dead Last - 13 episodes on WB, only about 7 aired.
Special Unit 2 - Two seasons on UPN.
The Others - 13 episodes on Fox.
Dark Angel - Two seasons on Fox.
Firefly - 13 episodes (I think), only about 10 aired on Fox.
Sinbad - 2-3 seasons in syndication.
Conan - 1-2 seasons in syndication.
Sleepwalkers - Six episodes I think, on NBC.
Where are these shows?
JohnL wrote:
Some of them may have hefty price tags for syndication, but I'd rather see a one or half season show than Stargate SG-1 over and over and over.
> >One of the things I like about SciFi is that they do show old
> cancelled shows,
> >even if they were only on for half a season.
>
> No, they USED to do that, and still do occasionally for popular
> shows like BG, but there have been a lot of short-lived shows
> recently that SciFi hasn't touched. Just off the top of my
> head;
>
> Nightman - 2-3 seasons in syndication.
> Freakylinks - One season on Fox.
> Lone Gunmen - One season on Fox.
> All Souls - Six episodes on UPN.
> Dead Last - 13 episodes on WB, only about 7 aired.
> Special Unit 2 - Two seasons on UPN.
> The Others - 13 episodes on Fox.
> Dark Angel - Two seasons on Fox.
> Firefly - 13 episodes (I think), only about 10 aired on Fox.
> Sinbad - 2-3 seasons in syndication.
> Conan - 1-2 seasons in syndication.
> Sleepwalkers - Six episodes I think, on NBC.
>
> Where are these shows?
I think the Cylon played the mirror as well. Taken on two roles.
I like Sci-Fi, but Sci Fi channel dosn't interest me. Sometimes they show a good movie. I work on Saturdays and I'm not even sure they show MYSTERY THEATER anymore. Their series don't look interesting. The new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA looked good on the commercials as did the new DUNE a while back.
I was a big fan of the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, the lost tribe idea, cylons, vipers. I think it was the idea behind the show as much as the cylons and vipers.
I watched part one last night and was fairly impressed. The military parts of the show were very realistic, they even had there own version of AWACS out with their fighter squadrons.
The part with the sex with the cylon lasted about 30 seconds and actually is relevent to the plot.
It reruns at 6:00 central tonight with part 2 at 8:00.
Caught the first 15min last night. Recorded the rest so i can zip commercials.
Might be intresting. The new Cylons are mean looking, and while the idea of a Human looking Cylon for intel ops makes sense, the "Lets make 'em human so we can save bucks on FX" aspect still bugs me.
The space battles look promising...we'll see.....
>Some of them may have hefty price tags for syndication, but I'd rather see a one
Maybe some of them, but I can't imagine that the WB is asking too much for Dead Last (a struggling three member rock band finds an amulet that lets them see dead people, who they must help), or Sleepwalkers from NBC (they go into other people's dreams to help them), considering that they only played a couple episodes in a real timeslot and used the rest as filler, usually unannounced. I taped all the episodes of several of those shows, but some of them the networks didn't even play all the episodes.
>The new Cylons are mean looking
Yeah, too bad there are only four of them in the entire miniseries and they don't actually do anything.
>and while the idea of a Human looking Cylon for intel ops makes sense,
>the "Lets make 'em human so we can save bucks on FX" aspect still bugs me.
Not only that, but it rips off many other shows and movies where you don't know who's human and who isn't. Oh and the idea of Baltar having a chip in his head? Straight out of Farscape. I expected him to start calling her Harvey.