I just watched the ScFi channels premier for Battlestar, and I have to say man what a bunch of self absorbed ego manacks. "I am playing starbuck, and I am a girl, deal with it."
I will watch the mini series and from what little I have seen, I am sure it will be good. Ron Moore is not a dummy and can write, so that is a plus. The casting is ok, but not the greatest. But Starbuck and Boomer as women??? Well ok, things change and this is a new series so why the hell not.
All in all, I am just very glad to see the series being revived. Even though it is not what I would have done, it still is BSG.
Ron Moore has some funny ideas for things, he didn't really have a clue about who the Cylons were and such, but he did make a good point about the fact that the orginal series never really giving much info about them. The Cylons were created by a race of raptillian creatures who were destroyed by their own machines. That was made very clear in the original series, but Ron Moore thought the cylons were raptillians inside of the suites, kinda like clones in stormtrooper uniformes in Star Wars.
I am glad that BSG is finally getting some credit, but it angers me to think that Ron Moore was so desprate to make his own mark in ScFi that he chose to claim BSG as his own creation, not realizing the huge fan base the show had accumulated over the years. You would think that someone coming from a Star Trek environment would have done his home work on the fan base before announcing
his Battlestar Galactica project. Well he is human I guess, or is he????
Either way you cut it, pro or con, it is just nice to see BSG being revived. I hope when the SciFi Channel remake Star Wars, they don't change Chewbacca into a girl and have the Humanoid Human looking Robot C3P-0 fall for her. Or worse, make Han Solo a women, and her fall Lea. eeeewww .... hummmm
wait, that might be interesting.......
[ November 29, 2003, 04:45: Message edited by: Atrocities ]