Battlestar Galactica

[airconvent]

Anyone seen the new series yet?<br />Both the original and series has their strong points. The newer one had the benefit of better computer graphics and a more realistic story line with the benefit of 20 years of cinematic advancement. Took awhile to get used to a female Starbuck (who incidently looked like that girl from Third Rock from the Sun)! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong>To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before...</strong></p><p><strong>Live Long and Prosper</strong></p> </div>

 

[Aetius]

Frankly, what benefitted the new mini-series most, in my opinion, was that it wasn't made to please TV network executives from the year 1977.<br /><br />There is a whole generation of space geeks, like myself, who've seen what space travel is really like...from television (NASA TV), movies ("Apollo 13"), and of course the Internet. Granted, the average viewer isn't going to care about things like Newtonian mechanics or the presence of attitude control thrusters. But I can't believe that I'm the only one who hungers for a little more realism in sci-fi TV's depiction of humans in space.<br /><br />Having truly good actors at your disposal to make the concept work as a whole, as I felt the recent mini-series did, really helps. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />I will definitely watch and record every episode, just in case this becomes another short-lived series that not enough viewers appreciate. <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /><br /><br />

 

[avaunt]

I thought the two part movie ROCKED . The ruthless, no, not the right term, the Cylon infiltrator droids that had no understanding of the concept of pity <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> , were so logically written, they were so believable, and S C A R Y !. Scary with bells on.<br /><br />I really liked the human traitor too, I had to laugh at the obvious attempts to portray him as some sort of European, N lightyears distant from ANYTHING terran. Bwahahahaha<br /><br />And the human fleet being CROPPED of the slow ships, coldly reminded me of the British Royal Navy having to make similar decisions time after time on the North Sea Convoys.<br /><br />Excellent begining, why do I feel it will fail to live up to it, in a sort of Lowest Common Denominator, hollywood fashion?. <br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" />

 

[Aetius]

Nobody enjoys looking at beautiful women more than I do. But if the Galactica makes a stop at '&%$#@! Supermodel Planet' during Sweeps Week, they've lost me for good. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />I expect at least a little substance from this show.<br />

 

[rocketwatcher2001]

That movie last year was one of the best things I've seen on TV in years. It's why I have a TV, besides the weather channel. I can't wait until the serries comes out. I think it's better than Star Trek. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[nacnud]

One thing I am confused about is considering that they are trying to be realistic, ie no sound in space, okish physics in dogfights, no superluminal velocities, where are they planning to stop?<br /><br />Week 1 a rock in space, stopped to get more ore/energy, cylons arrive and they have to move off... <br /><br />Week 2 a rock in space, stopped to get more ore/energy, cylons arrive and they have to move off... <br /><br />Week 3 a rock in space, stopped to get more ore/energy, cylons arrive and they have to move off... <br /><br />Week 4 a rock in space, thought the cylons were about to arrive but it turned out someone has sneezed on the radar scope instead, at last time for some serious mining, Yay...<br />

 

[Aetius]

One of the concessions to the demands of storytelling is that hyperspace-type jump gates exist in "Battlestar Galactica". They will probably travel to a lot of solar systems with Earth-like planets.<br /><br />Clarifying a comment I made earlier, I have absolutely no problem with sexuality being a part of the storylines. The human race does need to reconstitute its numbers, after all. I just dislike it when a TV show blatantly overemphasizes a character's sexuality, in a transparent attempt to boost ratings. Sex is a part of the normal adult's life...it's just not the sole thing that defines people.<br /> <br />Other 'Sweeps Week' stunts, in which TV characters are made to do things which are totally against their own previously established nature (elderly nun becomes a sex addict, et cetera) also irk me.<br /><br />That's when we Americans say that a TV show has "jumped the shark" (a reference to a scene from "Happy Days").

 

[rocketwatcher2001]

Aetius-<br />What if the land on Planet Baywatch? Lot's of car chases, Bikinies, rockets....... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[avaunt]

I just dislike it when a TV show blatantly overemphasizes a character's sexuality, in a transparent attempt to boost ratings. Sex is a part of the normal adult's life...it's just not the sole thing that defines people. <br /><br />WOW. DEEP THINKING. Aetius, you are the reason I "waste" my time online. This week, at least. What I really like, is when someone says something that really crystalises a feeling I have.<br /><br />That's part of what I liked about "Starship troopers". there was a fact of life, and they glossed over its artificial importance in the western world, by just treating as a FACT OF LIFE.<br /><br />Thank you for your insightful comment, mate<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[Aetius]

Thanks, Avaunt. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

[Aetius]

Rocket, that sounds like my ideal 'Cinemax After Dark' movie... <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[strandedonearth]

I quite enjoyed Galactica 2003, and I hope the series lives up to it. The new cylons look quite vicious, and the tie-in with the 'old model' 'walking chrome toaster' models was cool.<br /><br />Hey, I remember that Happy Days.... they had to top the barrel jump form a previous show, right?

 

[wmdragon]

are they showing the mini-series again before the series premiere? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#993366"><em>The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.</em> <br /> --- James Clerk Maxwell</font></p> </div>

 

[rocketwatcher2001]

I hope so, that movie was good. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[crowing]

I haven't seen anything either,but according to most people in here sounds like it rocks!!<br />I liked the first series,so I've got one foot in the doorway as far as I'm concerned!!

 

[avaunt]

The first series was just hollywood. That other one, man, I can't tell you how exciting it was, to watch something written by a real sci fi writer, made into a movie.<br /><br />You ought to watch it. I kept saying "Wow, I can't believe they resisted the lowest common denominator approach there!. "<br /><br />Heros and villians, and both were 3 D, not cut from cardboard.

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Sky One has purchased the whole deal for UK telly. Starts in about six weeks with heavy trailiers. Niiiiiice.<br /><br />Will then come off digital to Channel 4 I reckon..or BBC2 - who tend both go heavy in purchasing off Sky, such as Star Treks.

 

[avaunt]

[drool]<br /><br />We have not got anything like a sci fi channel here. There used to be a lot of Sci fi on our local Sky channel, things like Sliders, Eon Flux, and Zev and her Dead Assasain (though I was only watching it for Zev <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> ) but bit by bit, they lapsed into Charmed, and the excremental and vague Highlander knockoffs. <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /><br /><br />I don't think we will get the series of B G . They have just stopped supplying sci fi to people.

 

[earth_bound_misfit]

All i can say is bede bede <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br />hey, does anyone remeber Logans Run? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------- </p><p>Wanna see this site looking like the old SDC uplink?</p><p>Go here to see how: <strong>SDC Eye saver </strong>  </p> </div>

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Yep - I'd be dead if it was real....I'm 32 <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />They had cool cars.

 

[Aetius]

That "Buck Rogers" TV show reference just made my day. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />It wouldn't surprise me if we Americans eventually do a remake of "Buck Rogers In The 25th Century", but next time 'Buck' will be a handicapped Latina-Asian-White Israeli [closet] lesbian who's converted to Islam. 'Twiki' can be played by Gary Coleman of "Diff'rent Strokes" fame, just to round out the TV show's ethnic diversity.<br /><br />I see Jennifer Lopez as the show's star. Maybe once music piracy and her own spending habits deplete her personal fortune sufficiently, she'll be desperate enough to take this role.<br /><br />No matter how awful the show might be, it couldn't be worse than "Gigli". <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[Aetius]

I'd be dead, too. I'll be 34 in October.

 

[avaunt]

bede bede?<br /><br />{avaunt looks confused.}<br /><br />[well,alright, looks more confused then normal]<br /><br />You guys are lucky, I am 38, two more years to a VERY sad and depressing annversery. And what will I do thren? <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" />

 

[Aetius]

"...bede bede..."<br /><br />The old "Buck Rogers In The 25th Century" TV series, on NBC (American TV network) during the early 1980s, featured a short wisecracking android sidekick named "Twiki". The android had ordinary intelligence, and would frequently make the sound effect transliterated as "...bede bede...".<br /><br />The android also wore a computer of superhuman intelligence around his neck, which was the size of a dinner plate and lit up on the front. I believe the plate-shaped supercomputer was named, "Doctor Theophilus" (?).<br /><br />The show had a sense of humor, and there have been much worse science fiction series. It wasn't exactly a timeless treasure, but how many shows are?

 

[avaunt]

AHA !<br />of course, required watching here then, we had but the two TV channells, you understand. It was Buck on TV Two, and the Sheep Dog trials on TV One.<br /><br />It's just that , if a New Zealander was to do the transliteration, it would be more like Bige Bige.<br />Hahaha. the accent thing, again.<br /><br />I remember he talked some badguys into placing a 30 mm belt fed "Pig" into his (supposedly captured and disarmed) hands, by telling them it was a crude "earthman" back up signalling device, ship to ship.<br /><br />"We manipulate these small levers like so, and send our message in code."<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />Sure, but it's always one of two messages. " You got lead poisoning suddenly " <br />Or<br />"Did you wear clean underwear this morning, in case of accidents involving an Autopsy?".<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />And whilma was a Babe, but a bit pushy.