OT: BSG Discussion

Ragnarok · #1 March 10th, 2006, 04:55 PM

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ZeroAdunn said:
You guys didn't hear? BSG has been cancelled, they decided too many of the characters are just out of touch with the youth of today. The new series? BSP (Battlestar Pegasus.) They are basicly going to retool the show, keeping some of the younger cast and have it be like "Friends" but on a starship......

I kid you not.

I think I may have to find a really really big hammer if you say that again...

Daynarr · #2 March 10th, 2006, 05:09 PM

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Ragnarok said:
I think I may have to find a really really big hammer if you say that again...

I'd use a spoon instead.

mrscrogg · #3 March 11th, 2006, 01:59 PM

Shades of Bobby Ewing ! We are experiencing a dream secuence !

geoschmo · #4 March 11th, 2006, 02:04 PM

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mrscrogg said:
Shades of Bobby Ewing ! We are experiencing a dream secuence !

You think that's what this is? It's kind of cheesy if that's the case. Sucks we won't find out till July.

mrscrogg · #5 March 11th, 2006, 02:09 PM

To jump a year in time ? Too much could happen during then - to many new adventures available to give a year up .Baltar falls asleep and a year passes ? - to gimmicky not to be a dream

geoschmo · #6 March 11th, 2006, 02:22 PM

And what's up with Adama's porn-stache?

mrscrogg · #7 March 11th, 2006, 02:48 PM

He's always had one - he can grow it in 3 days !

Thermodyne · #8 March 11th, 2006, 02:34 PM

IMHO, it�s a dream ending. If you were looking closely when the nuke went off, it took out a big portion of the fleet. Which based on the head count could make their survival a moot point. And I can�t see them letting their guard down that way. They would have posted pickets all along the frontier to warn of approaching Cylons.

OR�.it could be a money thing. If money is tight, they could spend next year filming a gorilla campaign in the woods of west Canada and cut back on the rendered space scenes. They wouldn�t be the first tv show to do something like that.

Hunpecked · #9 March 11th, 2006, 06:45 PM

Thermodyne: "If you were looking closely when the nuke went off, it took out a big portion of the fleet. Which based on the head count could make their survival a moot point."

Well, they gave the population of "New Caprica City" as about 39K. Allowing for skeleton crews on the orbiting ships, the nuke could have taken out nearly 20% of the fleet.

Thermodyne: "And I can�t see them letting their guard down that way. They would have posted pickets all along the frontier to warn of approaching Cylons."

Uh, we ARE talking about the Colonial military here. You know, the people who gave Baltar a functional NUCLEAR WARHEAD when all he needed was the plutonium, and then didn't even put a 24-hour guard on the NUCLEAR WARHEAD, even with at least one known Cylon on the loose, and didn't check on him from time to time to make sure he still had the NUCLEAR WARHEAD.

Strangely, though, the ships in orbit did seem to have their FTL drives spun up and at least one jump pre-plotted; they got out pretty fast when the Cylons showed up. With the dumbest humans marooned on New Caprica, the fleet is probably more likely to reach Earth now.

My guess, though, is that the series will focus on the New Caprica concentration camp, run by the now-benevolent Cylons, as a kind of "Hogan's Heroes" type show. Starbuck will play Hogan, and the Quisling Baltar will be the unfortunate and ineffectual Klink, running the camp for the Cylons. I suspect some poor Centurion will play Schultz, occasionally declaring in a robotic monotone, "I see nothing!"