Battle Star Galactica

trekgeezer · December 07, 2003, 08:11:03 PM

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.

raj · December 08, 2003, 03:32:05 PM

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.

JohnL · December 09, 2003, 12:19:12 AM

>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?

raj · December 09, 2003, 10:37:40 AM

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?

Scott · December 09, 2003, 11:36:34 AM

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.

Scott · December 09, 2003, 11:42:40 AM

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.

trekgeezer · December 09, 2003, 11:55:29 AM

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.

Flangepart · December 09, 2003, 01:41:35 PM

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.....

JohnL · December 10, 2003, 06:02:35 PM

>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.