The NEW Battlestar Galactica

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Mini-series coming Dec 8th on SciFi.

Now with new, improved female Starbuck and Boomer! The cylons are now humanoid, like Terminators with boobs, and they shoot missiles with cloud trails, instead of light beams.:crazy:

Anyone still planning on watching it anyway? This could be better than Time Trax.:eyes:

[proud patriot]

1. Oh oh I am

:hi:it is one of my favorites

[MercutioATC]

2. Hey, if the Cylons have boobs, I'm there...

Seriously, I grew up watching the original, so I'm looking forward to seeing how the new version turns out.

If they'd only remake "Space 1999" now...

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4. At least one of them does.

I think her name is "Number Six", and she boinks Baltar. I watched an hour preview yesterday on it.

I'm still going to watch it, just to see how much they butcher the original.

[BlueJazz]

3. I was watching a treaser (trailer) the other...

...night on sci-fi (about BG) and the whole teaser was about the children on the ship....it was sickly-sweet..barf..

I hope that's not a sign of things to come.

[Paragon]

5. Great, the new Cylons look like...Seven of Nine.

I'll pass.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Butchering the original?

I don't see how that would be possible.

The original Battlestar Galactica was as shoddy a piece of right-wing dog-and-pony propaganda as has ever been trotted out before the viewing public, only to noisily relieve itself on camera. Not even the Day After "answer", Amerika, was as bad as Battlestar Galactica.

For those who may have suppressed the traumatic memory, Amerika was premised on a Communist takeover of America after the eeeevil United Nations passed a resolution condemning the USA for having too few black talk-show hosts. First, the name of the country was made more fontetik, then Chris Kristofferson went around the country leading the Common People in illicit recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance (you know, the one that goes, Aye plegliay im floggum ... in Starch Wreck), and finally some TV private eye is put in charge of one of the new countries the USA was broken into, but only after a dastardly terrorist attack on the Congress. Yes, Ben Stein is said to have suggsted the idea first, but it wasn't made with his now-legendary money, was it?

How will this be better? Will Starbuckette (or Starbucket) still smoke cigars to prove to the world how insouciant s/he is? Will the Cylons still have eyes that oscillate like automobile reflectors duct-taped to the blades on a ceiling fan? Will BG still have cutsey made-up words like "daggett" for "god" and "frack" for "intercourse"? And the Winsome Women of Battlestar Galactica -- will they still have over-feathered Farrah Fawcett hair?

Though personally, I do applaud Glen Larson for casting so many starlets with large derriéres at a time in history when the breast ruled men's imaginations with an iron hand. (Or nipple. Or whatever.) Bubblebutt Galactica would have been a great spin-off. Yo, props, Glenmaster-L! Peace out, y'all!

And most important -- will this Battlestar Galactica also fall through a "time warp" and emerge over the Earth in 1980? If they know what's good for them, they can aim for a few years earlier and appear on Match Game '77, to the delight of the irony-simple. And let's not forget Pumping Iron: The Galactica Years.

The new Battlestar Galactica has just gotta be better. It's just gotta. Because nothing could ever be as bad as the original.

Of course, we all said that about President Bush in 1992, didn't we?

--bkl
Watch it? Of COURSE I'll watch it!

[IndependentThinking]

7. I'll be watching it...

I remember the original. As bad as it was I still enjoyed it. I don't understand the ( Starbuckette ) deal though. Should have left well enough alone.:shrug:

[absyntheNsugar]

15. Mormon, not RW propaganda

Battlestar Galactica was written by a longtime LDS follower, and is based on many of the more obscure tenents of Mormonism (that we come from other planets, that God is one of many Gods, that the Pyramids in Egypt were remanants from those who witnessed God..etc)

There is even an episode where they go to Celestrial Kingdom (the Mormon Heaven.)

[absyntheNsugar]

16. BTW...no 80's propaganda collection would be complete without "Red Dawn"

WOLVERINES!!!!!!

[Deja Q]

8. How do you know it's improved?

The original started out good, but after (and including) the episode (which star trek tng's "disaster" seemed to borrow from), the show went waaaaaay downhill.

I dunno, I do hate it when people change series' premises. Humanoid Cylons? Sounds like the Borg...

And the new Red Dwarf movie's plot is direct plagerism of Battlestar Galactica and definitely strays from ts established cotinuity...

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

9. I don't know much about the RD movie,

but since practically every episode of the TV show also strayed from the established continuity, I don't really see that as a problem.

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11. Sarcasm.

How else was I to tell ppeoplle that two of the most popular sci fi characters on TV had sex changes?

remember Gremlins 2? Where they were in a TV conglomerate, and the announcer says..."Tonight on the Clamp Network. Humphrey Bogart's classic 'Casablanca'. Now in COLOR, with a new, imporved, happier ending."

I'm never original.:dunce:

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Saw a preview for it last night at the theater

(yeah - at the theater I go to, we get 20 minutes of TV ads called "2wenty" or something dumb like that), and it looks, production-wise speaking, quite beautifully made. And the lead women are quite attractive. :-) The ad was about 5 minutes for BG, but of course it didn't really offer anything about the story or anything that might us let know what the hell they're trying to do with it, except that there are cylons that are robotic, like we're used to, and also humanoid ones (and cute humanoid ones to boot).

I'd suggest the first episode is definitely worth watching, and then make judgment, sicne I really couldn't tell from the preview thing whether it's gonna be a cool series, or if it will suck.

"Cattlecar Galactica" <-- the old Mad magazine parody of it.

[brainshrub]

12. Cylons with BOOBS???

I got rid of my television back in 1995. You mean I missing seeing the remake if Galactica...and the Cylons have boobs!

I think I'll just read another book.

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13. What? Nobody cares about this historical event?

Matcom lapdances are more important than Cylons with boobs now?;-)

:kick:

[Lars39]

14. For a minute I thought this was another Magic Rat emoticon story.

:evilgrin:

[henslee]

17. SciFi channel is putting bookoo bucks into battlestar....

It's the type of thing that if the numbers are good for this first pilot (which if I am correct, is actually 2 pilots, episode 1 and 2,......two hours total) Anyway, f the numbers are good, they will make more eposides.... the same guy who is behind battlestar is behind Carnivale, the HBO show, as well as other start trek episodes and some of the movies... HIs name suddenly escapes me.

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19. Well, Carnivale's creator is Daniel Knauf

but the writer of BG is Ron Moore. I remember him, because he's taking flack for making Starbuck and Boomer women. Moore wrote for ST:TNG and DS9, but not that awful Voyager.

It's produced by Tom Desanto, the producer for the X-Men films. Him and Bryan Singer (director of X-Men, Usual Suspects) was going to direct a pilot episode, but Fox pulled Singer back to direct X2 instead. Singer didn't want Moore to write the script, because of his penchant for turning males into females.

I found no connection between this show and Carnivale though.

[Beaker]

18. Best...death scene...ever.

Lucite hardening...must end life in classic Lorne Greene pose from Battlestar Galactica...

http://www.xenafan.com/sounds/simpson_sounds/best_death.wav