"If The Human Race Is Going To Survive

[Beetwasher]

Then we need to get out of here and start having babies"

Potential for the best Sci Fi series ever.

It's off to a damn good start. (BG that is)

[Enraged_Ape]

1. I've never been more pleasantly surprised by an SF debut

There's something very powerful and compelling about the simple story of "the last Battlestar and its ragtag fleet, fleeing from genocidal machines on their way to a mythical planet called Earth". Glen Larson really hit the jackpot when he came up with that, as there are a thousand stories you could tell in that framework, and they all have the potential to be viscerally interesting.

I wasn't really sure what to expect from the new Battlestar Galactica, but it sure looks like the new creators understand Larson's concept better than the writers for the original series did--and by all appearances, they seem to want to continue to be more faithful to it.

It says a lot when Richard Hatch--who invested tons of his own time and money to get his own BG revival going, and who was initially incensed by the changes in the new series--now says he's behind it because it's going places he always wanted the original show to go but it never would.

[NewJeffCT]

2. how did the original series end?

I'm drawing a blank now, but didn't they make it to modern day Earth or something? How did that go? I'm foggy on it now 20+ years later.

[jayfish]

3. There Were A Couple Of Movies...

(maybe it was one two-parter)after the show ended, where they made it to Earth. I think they used the Halloween device to disguise their identities. I think Wolfman Jack was in one of them and it was pretty cool when the US fighter jets were chasing after the Vipers. Other than that it was forgettable.

Jay

[Enraged_Ape]

4. There was a short-lived series called Galactica 1980

It was cancelled after about 9 episodes, if I remember correctly.

Jayfish is right. It was pretty unmemorable. But here are a few details:

It took place about 30 years after the original show, after the Galactica had finally found Earth. Starbuck and Apollo were no longer around, but Boxey was grown up and was played by Kent "Adam 12" McCord, while Lorne Greene's Adama was still alive and sported a beard. The Colonials had super strength on Earth due to our relatively decreased gravity--and this fact, along with the fact that our Earth's cultures were so far behind theirs, led the Colonials to decide to just hang out in space and defend us from incoming Cylon attacks, which were all clips replayed from the original series.

You only wish I were making all of this up.

There was, however, one great episode in which we finally saw the final fate of Starbuck. After a fight with a Cylon raider, he crash-landed on a planet with no hope of rescue. Finding the crashed raider and destroyed Cylons, he is able to repair one of them, and the two grudgingly become friends. It was sort of a rehash of the "Enemy Mine" plot, but as I recall the episode was very poignant, sad, and well-done.

[NewJeffCT]

5. thanks

I don't remember the fate of starbuck. I remember an Old West style episode where he had to have a shootout with a cylon, but not him becoming friends with on.