Battlestar Galactica II (No Joke)

[Repo Man]

It wasn't a robot dog, it was a robot daggit.

In one Richard Hatch interview, he stated that in his remake, the robo-daggit was vaporized by a viper exhaust.

[kalthalior]

I LOVED the show as a kid. The early arc of the show was the best, up to where they discover Kobol. Eastern alliance arc was pretty good as well. The execs who rushed the late season episodes should have been shot. They got desperate as the Ratings dropped and the story line suffered (i.e., bring in a guest star (Fred Astaire!) as Starbuck's father---then copy the movies and have "Towering Inferno" & "Force 10 from Navarone" in space). The Lords of Light arc was pretty cool though, and yes, Maren Jensen (Athena) was incredibly HOT, too bad they almost totally ignored her toward the end of the series. The actual ship and the vipers were great, hope they remain similiar.

[Atrocities]

The Dagget was actually a monkey in costume. Seriously. I wonder why the series failed? I mean it had a lot to offer, but it was canned.

Does anybody remember the mistake? The reason the series was cancelled was not all brought on by Ratings dips, but the producers were sued by George Lucas, The show was very costly to produce, and the sponsors were scared by the content and thus were not willing to pay a lot for advertising.

The same thing happened, without the lawsuit, to another fine sci fi series about a decade earlier. Star Trek.

Yet, they both survive in one form or another. Lets just hope that BSG can get up and running again.

[geoschmo]

Oh man. Remeber those goofy flying motorcycles from BSG 1980? "Space CHiPs"

Geo

[ June 21, 2002, 12:02: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[mac5732]

From what I either read or heard, can't remember from that far back, was that the producers did not really want the show and did everything they could to shoot it down including cutting financing. I don't remember where I heard/read it at the time, but the main reason the 80's stunk, was that the producers wanted it done away with.
Can't remembeer all the facts but that's what it was in a nutshell....

just some ideas mac

[zen.]

Atrocities -- you actually got to see Hatch's trailer??? Cool...what's it like? I saw all the screenshots, but I haven't attended any sci-fi cons, so I never got to see it. Too bad Baltar (John Calicos?) died. I heard he was in the trailer, too.

I always appreciated Galactica because it had story arcs; there was overlapping and things changed. Shows could stand alone, but if you'd seen previous episodes, there was continuation. Like one big story. Unfortunately, Andromeda's starting to move away from that formula. B5 was great until the move to TNT and since I don't have cable I lost it.

zen

[Atrocities]

Yes I saw it. It was really cool. Very well done for the short time it Lasted. I was, um, very tanked at the time I saw it, and spent the next few days wondering if I had actually seen a "lost" episode of BSG, or imagined the whole thing... It wasn't until a year later when I discovered that I hadn't imagined it, that I really did see it, and that it was a promo to generate interest in a revival. The neat thing about it, was the EVERYONE, was in it. (Say for Loren Green. ) I don't remember seeing John in the it. Then again, like I said, I was tanked.

[ June 23, 2002, 23:31: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[zen.]

LOL...cool! Too bad there's no way of being able to see that trailer short of finding out where Richard Hatch will be next. And to go slightly off-topic, did anyone else think of Apollo first whenever they mentioned Richard Hatch as the winner of Survivor? I'm such a geek.

Now there's a drinking game for ya -- every time they replay stock footage of the Galactica, squadron of Vipers or Raiders, or a fighter launch.

zen

[Puke]

Originally posted by zenbudo:

Now there's a drinking game for ya -- every time they replay stock footage of the Galactica, squadron of Vipers or Raiders, or a fighter launch.

zen

good god man, dont do that with the final episode! "launch all the vipers!" and you are sitting there for at least five minutes watching the same freaking footage of vipers clearing the launch tubes.

[Baron Munchausen]

Has anyone ever noticed that the "Battlestar" Galactica is really just an aircraft carrier under a thin veneer of SciFi gadgetry? I mean, the vipers defy space physics by banking and turning in curves as if they had atmosphere to lean on, and they have to 'land' on the decks as if there was gravity out there. Now even if you accept that there is internal artificial gravity how do they enter this 'artificial' gravity so abruptly as we see them do in the landing sequences? They just glide into this huge open hatch and land as if they were planes on a carrier deck. If there really was a gravity field inside the ship they'd hit it like a wall and suddenly bang down on the deck. It's downright bizarre if you care anything about scientific realism or even consistency.

As interesting as certain aspects of BSG were, it was pretty cheesy. But then BSG 1980 was too awful for words...

[ June 25, 2002, 03:03: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]