Well I have to disagree with the "self absorbed ego maniacs" as the line "I'm starbuck....deal with it" is directed at all the freaky people who B and M about starbuck being a woman like it really matters in the long run. It's a SHOW people they can change Starbuck into a six legged four eyed bug for all I care as long as the show it's self is good.
And lets face it the original female cast of BSG was nothing but a bunch of sexy whiny babies that couldn't fight their way out of a paper bad...or they could fight their way out of a paper bag but would then be crying about hurting the bag.
As to what Ron Moore said about the Cylons he's right I've watched that series a few times over now and not once did it say where the Cylons came from all you would see was an "Imperius Leader" who looked kind of like a baloon headed reptile. So when I first saw it I thought they were reptile "drones" in armor until I first saw them disasemble one of the centurions in a much later episode.
I also agree that it was one of the campiest peices of junk ever produced aside from Buck Rodgers. I mean don't even get me started on how lame it was when they found "Terra" not this one but the other one
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I am personally kind of happy that they are gonna have some kickass babes in the show for once even if they are replacing a whiney guy (boomer) and a womanizing scuzz ball who managed never to be caught ;-). And the fact is woman are now fighter pilots and soon if the law is passed they will also be combat infantry so they need to be represented in a series that takes place in a society that is centuries more advanced then us.
I was raised around girls and women that were the kickass take no crap kind of people that I just love and watching the original cry babies of BSG made me shift between laughing my butt off and getting really pissed off at times and wanting to slap these woman back into sanity. Besides ain't nothing sexier then a babe with firepower as I always say ;-).
As for the writing involved in the new BSG I do beleive it will be very good because of the parts of the story I've seen and heard. I just can't wait to get to check out the new ships and stuff. And to get to see the battle between the Colonial Fleet and the Cylons.
P.S. The Richard Hatch Version of BSG was supposed to come out in 2000 or 2002 so it must have been scrapped for some reason.
[ December 02, 2003, 19:09: Message edited by: Starhawk ]