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Battlestar Galactica

Started by onionhead, March 20, 2003, 01:47:43 PM

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SkullNinja

Good points, Flangepart.

Larsen sort of meant it as a double allegory for the Jewish Exodus as well as the Mormons having to run from New York to Missouri to Utah. Count Iblis was supposed to be Satan and the Cylons were demons incarnate.

Todd R.

I always thought that BATTLESTAR GALACTICA had a great premise, regardless of the quality of the actual shows. To see what the premise can be done in the hands of a talented storyteller, check out Walt Simonson's work on the original BATLESTAR comic book from Marvel. Great stuff, just like Marvel's STAR WARS comic. Unfortunately, both BATTLESTAR and STAR WARS are now treated like complex, epic sagas of deep intellectual significance (by their fans, at least) and have lost their deliciously pulpy sci-fi roots.

Andrew

I know that they were looking for Earth, the lost colony.  My main worry was that they would actually find Earth (which they did in one of the movies).  Like we were going to be any help against Cylons.  Of course, a big planet full of raw materials (ore, fuel, and people) could be a bonus to kicking Cylon butt.

Andrew Borntreger
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Flangepart

Yeah. Getting to earth, and finding out we were primitive was a big bummer. But, Galatica 1980 was a bummer all the way through!
God in Heaven, i hated that time travel story...they contridicted the "Don't change history" bit with no shame! Sheesh!
Stupid,stupid space opera!

"Aggressivlly eccentric, and proud of it!"

yaddo42

According to SciFi Weekly, the role of Adama in the new version will be played by Edward James Olmos(!).

If he plays it like Lt. Castillo from "Miami Vice" it will get old quick. But if he plays it like his character (based upon the real life teacher) in STAND AND DELIVER it could be a hoot, but for all the wrong reasons.

Scott

Battlestar Galactica was a great series and was ruined once they made it to earth, but they had to end it some how I suppose. Great concept of them trying to find a long lost tribe of humans, because they were running from those mechanical cylons. The story rates up there equal with Star Wars.

The reason people don't like Star Wars is because its over-played. Now that people are starting to be turned off by it and you don't see it on TV every week, maybe in 10-20 years we can kinda re-discover the original 3 episodes in a positive way.

jmc

Maybe Olmos will play it like AMERICAN ME!  

Wasn't the Galactica movie basically just a bunch of the TV episodes strung together?  I remember in that old Golden Turkey book it "won" for Biggest Ripoff in Hollywood History.

Fearless Freep

The Galactica movie was just something like the long pilot for the series.  Except in the movie Baltar was executed by the Cylons.


It's funny to read or hear about some of the stuff they went through with Lucas and the Star Wars people about what they could or could not do.

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Hamburger Pimp

Or maybe he will play it like "Wolfen."  AHHHHHH!!

As long as I don't have to see his ass again...

"I'm so bad, I kick my own ass twice a day"

JohnL

>Wasn't the Galactica movie basically just a bunch of the TV episodes strung
>together? I remember in that old Golden Turkey book it "won" for Biggest Ripoff
>in Hollywood History.

There was both a theatrical movie and the TV movie. The IMDB says the theatrical movie was released in Canada before the TV movie had aired. As far as I know though, the theatrical version was made from the 3 hour TV movie/pilot, with a couple extra scenes inserted.

As for the coming mini-series, the fact that they're re-casting all the roles rather than making this a direct continuation of the original series shows that the idiots behind this have no clue what the fans want or what made the original show popular with its fans.

The part that really ticks me off is that this miniseries probably wouldn't even have gotten off the ground if Richard Hatch hadn't spent his own money to make a 3 minute trailer that every fan who's seen it, loves. He showed that there was still interest in BG, and then the executives basically told him to get lost so that they make what THEY think BG should be. I'd be surprised if anyone connected to this project had ever even seen BG before they started working on this.

I'm going to predict right now that this is going to be even more unpopular than Galactica 1980.