Battlestar Galactica

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I saw the miniseries and the first two episodes this past week.

It frackin' ROCKS!

[Dufaeth]

1. I thought this would be another SciFi channel cheesefest,

but it was great! I was very impressed. Hope it keeps it up, it has potential to be one of the best.

[HawkerHurricane]

2. Amazing: Military Sci Fi run like a warship...

As a squid, I was impressed. These guys run things like real military units.

(Listen to the 'backround chatter' on the Galactica; the announcements in the backround sound like something from a U.S. warship... and what the people say sound like sailors complaining, too.)

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8. Yes, it's a refreshing change from skintight spandex uniforms

and sterile environments.

The writers/producers must have spent some time on an aircraft carrier, or hired consultants who did.

[tridim]

3. I started watching it, and thought I'd like it, but

something about the show rubbed me wrong. Maybe that it was too serious, over-acted and too dramatic. I still remember the exact day I saw the original Battlestar Galactica, I was a huge fan. Maybe I was expecting a similar tone in the new version. Who knows? Regardless, I'll certainly give it another chance.

[Deja Q]

4. Starbuck can go frack herself.

Badly written, badly acted... at least her character is.

As with the original remake miniseries (man, "original' next to "remake" - just how dorky does our society get?!), the Firefly-inspired space scenes are still there. As is the over-reliance on contemporary language ithat only makes it sound silly.

While some scenes worked (namely the bit where the bad guy of the week blows up the water tanks), there's plenty of cheeze-whiz abound as the jingoistic crew all cheer like 5 year olds on field trip at the candy store when they find a luscious watery planet to replenish with (man, how convenient was that, especially when they were all saying the chances of such a planet were rare?)

And if Boomer is supposed to be a cylon infiltrator, I think her circuits have gone haywire.

Despite its faults, there is enough to make me keep watching. But it's by no means great or without flaws.

I'm still waiting for the updated Dr Who and Blake's 7 to come out. Though Dr Who, from what I've seen, also looks contemporary and Blake's 7 is too novel and daring to be done these days when you really start to think about it. On the other hand, both those programs are British and not American. They still exercise free speech; at least in comparison with us.


Never mind the use of the term "ready room" (Ronald D Moore is making this remake, so go fig)... and the anorexic computer generated cylons, while look surprisingly real in amidst the foilage surroundings, do not come across or sound menacing, I'm sorry. (at least they're not given dialogue... that's a plus over the original - when Cylons in the original got to speak, the dialogue was atrocious...)

[vinessa4freedom]

5. sorry, I think it's a sell-out

I'm a huge fan of the original, cheesy-as-it-can-be original. It's kind of like New Coke. It just doesn't work when the first model is so deliciously bad.

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6. don`t really care as long as

number 6 is on the screen..the first battlestar was not that great and the new one isn`t bad. as for blake 7 and the doctor..who knows if they will be any good.

[tigereye]

7. we liked it!

can't actually remember the original one. Wasn't there a Brit series about a series of worlds stuck on a ship... and the characters would move from world to world? That wasn't it, was it? Hell, I still miss Blake's 7.

[Bok_Tukalo]

9. Best ficitional series found in the Vast Wasteland currently

I loved it.

And comparing it to the original is like comparing Keaton's "Batman" to Adam West's. You can like them both, but for different reasons.

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10. starbuck is hottttttttttttt!

i was a fan of the original series when i was, oh, like EIGHT. but face it, it was a bad, bad, bad show with a really promising concept. the new series definitely has it's flaws but is a VAST improvement upon the original.

and i'm all for changing starbuck from a han solo rip-off to a kick-ass femme pilot. she's dreeeeeamy.

one thing that is NOT an improvement over the original is this: the origin of the cylons. if i remember correctly, in the original series, the cylons were actually an organic race of bug-beings that were in an eons-long war with the humans. they built these robot-cylons in order to fight their war with the humans. the bug-beings eventually died off from some disease or holocaust.....but the robots they built kept fighting the war. in the new series, it's just a terminator-esque "the humans built the robots and they gained intelligence, yadda yadda yadda." i think the original origin was much clevererererer.

but i'm on board for most everything else, and it's definitely better than 99.9999% of the crapfests they air on SciFi.

[vinessa4freedom]

11. they were reptilian

Also called cylons. They built the robotic ones because the humanoid form was more efficient. I'm a geek for the original. :)

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12. Howard Stern has been raving about it.

I just added it to the Tivo. Thanks

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13. I don't want

to be the thread killer on this. :kick:

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14. Give me Buck Rogers anyday!

Erin Grey in that catsuit...nice! :loveya: