Battlestar Galactica II (No Joke)

[Atrocities]

I was visiting Battlestar Galactica.com and came acrossed the story:

This section is reserved for a general overview on the next Battlestar Galactica series, once executive produced by Tom DeSanto with Studios USA (Vivendi Universal), now executive produced by David Eick. At the time of this writing, no official plot outlines are available for publication here.

Brief overview

On 22 February 2001, Tom DeSanto and Bryan Singer ("The X-Men") announced, in conjunction with Studios USA (Vivendi Universal), plans to bring back Battlestar Galactica. [Note: Previous, separate production announcements by Richard Hatch in 1998 and Glen A. Larson in 1999 did not yield actual television shows or motion pictures.]

By September 2001 (the 23rd anniversary of the original show's debut), the Fox Network (U.S.) was taking interest in broadcasting the new Battlestar Galactica television series, starting with a 2-hour pilot episode. (An ongoing series may have been considered if the pilot episode Ratings were strong enough.)

By November 2001, Bryan Singer left Battlestar Galactica to focus 100% on X2 ("The X-Men II") within Fox's film division. By December 2001, the Fox Network was no longer supportive and the Battlestar Galactica production offices closed their doors in Universal City, California.

On 2 April 2002, Sci-Fi Channel has announced a new Battlestar Galactica production team, leading to a planned 4-hour mini-series which "re-imagines" the show.

To read the whole thing Aticle

For those of you who do not know, Richard Hatch and company, (Original stars of BSG) have been, for years, trying to revive the series. They even made a promo movie a few years back that was widely phraised at conventions and such. (Damn good job I thought)

Any whoo, this is great news, and one that many people have been looking forward to since the late 70's. (We won't talk about the 80's series)

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[Cylapse]

A serious question. I always knew about Galactica but was never into it until I rented one of their tapes @ Hollywood... now it has me wondering: What did they fooken do in the 80's? LOL I never heard of this part, so can someone give me a nice solid rant about the 80's Galactica so I can get up to speed? LOL

BTW - I am impressed that old Captain Apollo is supporting it so strongly, I half wondered if he was dead by now, **** it was like 20 years ago.

[Atrocities]

The 80's series took place 20 years after the events that occured in the 70's show. Apollo was dead, so was Starbuck. They found earth and discovered that we were primatives, current day.

So they decided to leave. However, a shuttle with a group of kids is forced to crash land on Earth, and that is the premise for the show. It had 1 good episode in it, and that starred Dirk Benidict (Starbuck) It explained how he died.

The 80's serises sucked horribly. They tried, but just could not pull it together. Correction, they did have a couple of good episodes. One was were a guy went back in time to try and "improve" Earths history by helping the Nazi's win the war. He was stopped.

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[Dracus]

The only one I liked was when the cylons showed you in new york.

[Repo Man]

Ok, this one makes me delurk once again.

To me, BSG is in the same Category as SEIV, maddingly close to pure genius. But that’s a different topic.

BSG Lasted precisely one season, faced rushed production, and never got a chance to “gel.” Despite that, the show really had a special magic to it, and had some terrific episodes and ideas. Who can forget the “other” battlestar, the Pegasus. The ship of light, the eastern alliance. More forgettable was the cowboy episode with the silver western hats.

After BSG was cancelled in 79, it was revived in 1980 on a lower budget. BSG 1980 in a word, sucked. To add a few more words, add on “really bad.” The kiddies were not the premise to the show, it was in fact, the Last shown episode. BSG 1980 assumed they fleet reached earth, and was hovering around it. The Cylons couldn’t figure out which planet it was, so … well, its almost embarrassing that I know the plot line.

Most agree that BSG 1980 never happened.

Richard Hatch has been pushing for a revival for several years now, and wanted to pick up the first season 20 years later with the same actors. After several false starts, the series is going to start over with new actors as a “reimagined” instead of a continuation.

While starting over will allow some of the goofy elements to be terminated, I think picking up where the original series left off would have been the better choice.

[Atrocities]

cowboy episode with the silver western hats.

I loved that episode. The Cylon - "Ut oh" at seeing that Apollo had a gun too. Oh the special feeling you get when you remember those forgotten memories.

GOD I MISS that show.

Well at least Richard's books can take care of the Original series, and I hear that there will be many cameos. At least I would hope that the producers would do that as homage to Hatches work and respect to the original cast.

Athena was very hot. My first crush. Then Wilma from Buck Rogers. Oh ya......

But one can't help remembering what happened with B5 after it went to cable Tv. *shudder* TNT really fouled that up.

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