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Originally posted by Starhawk:
Pardon the oppinion of a newbie but I beleive you have all been misinformed.

I watched "Inside Battlestar Galactica" on Sci-Fi and it looks just like a revamped Version of the original nothing more nothing less.

The colonials BUILT the Cylons in this Version, I don't know if that's how it was in the original as I wasn't around back then but I think this sounds cool.

The Cylons come in two types in the miniseries they come in a wicked looking battledroid that is very obviously a mechanoid and they also come in a "sex slave/regular slave" kind of humanoid form that the Colonials built. The Cylons then rebelled against the Colonials and went all Pearl Harbor on the Colonial fleet.

Now the Galactica is the Last remaining warship in the Colonial navy and is guarding a rag tag fleet of civilians towards "unknown space" which might be earth for all we know.

As for "boomer" and "starbuck" being women now, personally i have nothing really against it since they are not adding them as "love interests" of any of the male characters, I personally love a kickass kinda lady and think it would be cool to see em. (and I always thought starbuck sounded kinda female anyway).
But the reason they are turning the males into women instead of adding new female pilots is because they "according to them" wanted these characters to be just as important as the males and since most of the galactica series focused on Starbuck, Apollo and Boomer the best way for them was to turn the two other guys into girls and then add new male characters. They are getting modern by the fact that women are now fighter pilots and soldiers and not just the bambi the love godess characters of the 1970's.

Heh well that's the oppinion of a guy who was raised around kickass girls since i was a wee boy anyway :-).

Welcome and thanks for the info.

You really should watch the old Version from the late 70's. It debute on September 17th 1978 I believe and was 3 hours long.

Women fighter pilots is nothing new to BSG, as they had them in great numbers in the original series.

The idea of making Starbuck a women is completely lame by any definition. I liked the boomer character, a no bull get it done kind of guy, but if they want to make that character a women, no harm no foul, but Starbuck was Apollos best friend. Changing the character to a women has only one purpose, love interest. Nuff said. (Think 7 of 9 - TaPal - Troi)

The original series was very exciting to watch. The series BSG 1980 was a f--ked up scaled down cost effective POS series. However in that series we did get to meet the first Human Cylon.

The original Cylon race was raptillian and they created the machines to kill the humans. The raptillian cyclons all died off for some reason, not really discussed in the series, leaving the machines to fend for themselves. Ultimatly the Cyclons set up the Colonials and obliterate their fleet say for a handful of Battlestars, the Galactica and the Peguses were two that were featured in the series. The Peguses later was presumed destroyed after she engaged three Cyclon Basestars destroying them all.

The other ships were mentioned in fan lore and books.

If you can get the original BSG series on DVD, and I think you can now, you should invest in it. It was a very good series even by todays standards. The title track is still considered by many to be one of the best ever created.