Battlestar Galactica On SciFi Channel

gregebowman · #1 October 9th, 2003, 10:06 PM

Even though they made Starbuck a female, I'm going to watch the show. I doubt if it will be as good as the original, but at least it will have a modern plotline instead of the plotlines they were using in the 70's. And yes, I was around the for the original prime-time viewings of the orignal series. I was 14 or 15 when BG came out. But I still plan on buying the DVD set when it comes out in a couple of weeks. It's not quite like having Star Wars on a weekly basis, but for the late 1970's, it was just about all we had except for Buck Rogers (I didn't become a Dr Who fan until much later, as I couldn't catch all of the episodes in order in my area). I hope Olmos can partially fill Lorne Greene's shoes, but that would be a hard slot to fill. Hopefully he'll do a decent job of it.

Starhawk · #2 October 10th, 2003, 04:11 AM

I just hope they use good old earth expresions instead of stuff like Centon (how long is that anyway it seems to always be changing). Hade's Hole as an expression? We don't go around saying oh Hell's Hole why would they say their people's equivalent.

YAREN I'm not evne going into how funny that sounds for completely immature reasons.

As for that enterprise ep "Rajjin" I think it wasn't necessarily that their armor was all that effective but I remember that everyone seems to be using stun all the time....I'd have set it to kill. And the big thing about that ep was I don't know if the five good guys that got hit died or what? I mean did the aliens use stun too?

And for a matter of fact if they were wearing laser proof body armor they would have worn kevlar armor if the enterprise crew used slugthrowers

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Erax · #3 October 13th, 2003, 02:14 PM

I think Olmos will be just as good as Lorne Greene was, but different. This won't be the character you remember from the 70s, but probably a tougher, harsher Version.

gregebowman · #4 October 13th, 2003, 02:28 PM

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Originally posted by Erax:
I think Olmos will be just as good as Lorne Greene was, but different. This won't be the character you remember from the 70s, but probably a tougher, harsher Version.

I can live with that. Like I think I mentioned earlier, no one can replace Lorne Greene as Adama. That image of Pa Cartwright leading the BG will always be seared into the minds of anyone whoever saw the show. So he'll have his work cut out for him to revise the character. I can't wait for it to come out. Does anyone know the date yet? I don't get to watch the Sci-Fi channel like I want to.

mac5732 · #5 October 14th, 2003, 03:51 AM

Its either November or December, I thought more towards December, they have been showing excerpts of the new show on the Sci Fi channel, seen some cylon warships but not what the cylons themselves look like... should be interesting to see if its as good as the original was

just some ideas Mac

geoschmo · #6 October 14th, 2003, 03:49 PM

Well personally I don't think they would have to try that hard to make it better then the original. I loved BG as a kid, but I said it before in this thread, in retrospect and in comparison to the general level of quality in sci-fi these days it sucks. And I am not just talking about the effects, which were pretty bad even by 70's standards. I honestly think the show only did as well as it did at the time, which wasn't all that well Ratings wise, because it exsisted in an almost complete vacuum of sci-fi competition on TV.

Starhawk · #7 October 14th, 2003, 06:48 PM

Yeah I agree with Geoschmo I've seen the show in the 1990s and compared to other sci-fi shows that were running about at the time BG sucked raw meat.

And the date is monday december 8th I beleive.

And i know something you don't know

....I saw the new Cylons.