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Old October 8th, 2003, 01:27 AM
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I just wonder if they are going to recycle the same space scenes 1,000 times like in the original series?
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Old October 8th, 2003, 01:42 AM
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I just wonder if they are going to recycle the same space scenes 1,000 times like in the original series?
Oh yeah, that same scene of the cylons approaching and rolling over into a dive every time there was an attack. That one became so ubiquitous it was in an RCA TV commercial for a while. Then there is the one they play every time a viper got behind one of the cylons: cut to an interior of a cylon fighter and the pilot looks back over his shoulder just before the ship explodes.

One of the nice things about the computer generated effects is once you set the basic paramaters and elements of the shot you can run it from different angles and what not and make several shots that look nothing alike. So hopefully no.
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, now that was a nifty show. Corney by todays standards, but in the day it was a great Thursday night flick. I still love thinking about Erin (Wilma) for she was one very attactive women and I guess she still is. Do any of you remember the episode where Whilma and another women were locked inside of a hot room filled with steam? Ohhhh ya baby, for a 13 year old that was like pure gold.
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Good news for fans of the original BSG, and those of us too cheap to buy the DVD (I don't even have a DVD player yet ): SciFi will be airing selected episodes from the original series all day next Monday 10/13, 9am-5pm EST, starting with the 3-hour series premiere. So get your VCRs ready!

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Yeah I saw the ep of Buck Rogers....in 2002 (as I wasn't even around when it first aired). I was thinking "Well the plot is kind of lame but....wow look a tall that steam ).

As for the New Battlestar Galactica here's my oppinion in a nice ordered number list of why I'll probobly give it a shot:

1. Starbuck being a woman is kind of cool BECAYSE of the fact that Starbuck is Apallo's best friend, they are trying to show that a woman and a man can be the closest of friends while not having a cheesy love interest or sexual tension between them.

2. Boomber going from a short black guy to a short asian girl I also have no problem with (partly because of the fact that it's Grace Park ) and because although it looks like she might have a love interest it also doesn't look like it's gonna be one of the main characters which is always a good thing. And I always liked a cute lady that can kickass with the best of em.

3.The ships all look really good, including the revamped Vipers.

4. I got a glimpse of the Neo-Cylon battledroids and trust me you guys will not likely be disapointed.

5. YES the CYLONS are the badguys they turned evil of their own "choice" I guess, but yeah they are the evil imperialistic robots we've all come to know and love in the original series.

6. The female pilot from the original series "Sheeba" when she wasn't flying her fighter was buisy crying about one thing or another so I'm glad to see her gone.

7. Sci-Fi usually does a good job at remakes as we saw with Frank Hurburts DUNE and a few others.
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I'm agreeing with you about the Starbuck thing, Starhawk. I read an interview with them that said they were only changing the gender; the buddy relationship between Starbuck and Apollo would be about the same or similar. Whether Starbuck's still a womanizer, I don't know.

I'm not familiar with most of the cast, but Olmos as Adama wasn't even recognizable. The moustache does a lot. heh heh

And a few more things: Wilma Deering kicked mucho ***, Sheba looked like she was going cry at any given time, Athena was Apollo's sister assigned to the Command Bridge, and that episode with all the female pilots (apparently they were converted cargo pilots and whatnot) I think he married Serina, played by Jane Seymour, no less. She probably made a better pilot than Sheba so they killed her off 50 minutes later. Or something.

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Well I've never liked the "I'm gonna cry over something everyone else is being stoic about just because I'm a girl" deal in the old sci-fi shows.

I mean in RL I have been raised around girls that can kickass and take a beating with the best of the guys (martial arts mainly, watching streetfights as well ) and I've always liked em especially now that I'm not a little kid anymore and realize just how hot some of them really are.

Anyway moving on I like that in modern day TV we see women that can be smart, kickass tough and good looking all at the same time.
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