BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Should I watch?

POSTED BY: reginaroadie
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 1, 2005 04:33
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MACBAKER

Sunday, January 16, 2005 7:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Starbuck is now a confused butch lesbian who has feelings for the effeminte (sic) Apollo?

Curious how you see a strong female character as a confused butch lesbian. Seems like you have some issues to work out!

I like Starbuck. She's tough, but from the episode's "33" and "Water", it's obvious she is also compasionate. It's also obvious there are some sparks between "lesbian" Starbuck and "effeminate" Apollo. Hmmmm.

As far as Apollo being effeminate (issues again?)? In the episode "33", it's clear that Apollo is anything but effeminte. Taking out a ship that could have nearly 1400 of your fellow humans on it, to save more, shows that he has the guts to make the tough command decisions. The fact that he's haunted by those actions later, just proves he's human, and not some cold hearted macho moron.

I'd given some thought to movin' off the edge -- not an ideal location -- thinkin' a place in the middle.

THEREAVER

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 9:11 PM

I have over 10 hours of it that I haven't had time to watch. I'll watch it next Saturday and Sunday. Looking forward to it now. (BTW I live in the UK)

I'll rape you to death.
I'll eat your flesh.
I'll sew your skin into my clothes.
If you're very very lucky, I'll do it in that order - TheReaver

RITAK7

Friday, January 21, 2005 5:49 PM

i missed the mini-series.did baltar know he was collaborating with the cylons? i am quite curious to find out

RITAK7

Friday, January 21, 2005 5:49 PM

i missed the mini-series.did baltar know he was collaborating with the cylons? i am quite curious to find out

PBI

Friday, January 21, 2005 6:31 PM

SPOILER WARNING.

Yes, Baltar knew. Six told him just before the Cyclon attack started.

If you can survive death, you can probably survive almost anything.

RITAK7

Friday, January 21, 2005 11:41 PM

so did he find out just before or did he know all along? is just insanely self-interested and blind or is he full on villianous? thanks for the info

DANFAN

Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:42 AM

Baltar did not know she was a cylon before the attack. He was just insanely self-absorbed and blind.

In fact, the way they've been writing his part, he isn't even a competent scientist. He had the contract to develop the security features of the military software. He took on the blonde chick as an "assistant" because she was good. She did ALL the coding on the security features of the control software in defense systems. He took all the credit. Then, as the attack on the colonies started, she told him she was a cylon and had used the access he gave her to that software to insert the backdoors that allowed the cylons to shut all the defenses down.

He's been trying to hide his culpability (and his incompetence) ever since.

RITAK7

Saturday, January 22, 2005 1:51 AM

oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh

HJERMSTED

Monday, January 31, 2005 6:16 PM

I rented the Farscape miniseries last week and was underwhelmed (however, I had no previous experience with the series so I will try again after I watch all the episodes in order). I was expecting to have the same reaction to Battlestar Galactica but didn't at all.

I took in the Battlestar Galactica mini-series over the weekend and was very impressed with what the producers have done with a cheesy late 70s premise designed to cash in on Star Wars. In the new BG, the characterizations, the plotting, the sets and the effects all surpassed my expectations. I enjoyed seeing again ZOIC's superbly fluid special effects (that they perfected on Firefly!) as well as the use of handheld cameras roaming around in incredibly detailed fully enclosed sets (another idea from Firefly).

If the one hour episodes are handled with as much care (as I'm guessing they are) the BG remake series will be a keeper. Nothing Sci Fi Channel has shown past or present is as intiguing to me as this new Galactica. Kudos!

mattro

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 4:33 AM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I'm not sure why they felt the need to make the changes that they did. Starbuck is now a confused butch lesbian who has feelings for the effeminte Apollo? Don't get me wrong, I think the new character of Starbuck is played great. The actress does one hell of a job. Very interesting and all that, but .....why?

It's been so long since I watched the original, I guess I never really paid much attention to the story line. It's kinda confusing to have the old Vipers on display when we last saw them fighting the old Cylon ships, but now that's suppose to all happened in the past, before the Cyclons tried to wipe mankind out.....but that's what they're trying to do now..in the 'present'. It hurts the brain to have to think this much.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

I didn't know what to make of this when I saw it on the TV, it seemed to be a pretty good series but it also had a few flaws and I was missing some of the story from the early part of the show. I then decided to check it up online, to see in any of those Trek webs or BSG sites had info on it. I must admit when I saw this my first thought was “they must be getting desperate for material” but the series is fine yet it ain't the best and there are many trekfans plus fans of the original who are unhappy.

Looking at the websites I see there is a HUGE fight between 'purists' (people who loved the original BSG and HATE the remake) and remake fans. If you folks tought some of the postings here were bad, they ain't nothing compared to what goes on the other sites, you'll soon see some very bitter posts. Remake fans said the show had best cliffhanger in the history of televison! No way - becuase I was very disappointed, + maybe folks out there are just desperate for the "next best sci-fi" show. Not everyone is fond of the script and some have criticised it as a space version of 90120.

It must be near impossible to please the original fans of Battlestar-galactica, they are unlikely to do a U-turn on the show anytime soon. Perhaps the worst are the cirtics of writer Ron Moore, who is a veteran of a host of sci-fi series, they say BSG seems to be an overwhelming number of characters that ring false, in particular a number of forced melodrama. To quote some posts they say Jamie Bamber ("Band of Brothers") is moody and quiet and is mostly dull. Katee Sackhoff ("Halloween: Resurrection"), as the female incarnation of Starbuck, looks like a futuristic Butch lesbian and acts like she's suffering from prolong PMS. So they do a reversal of the gender of Starbuck and then we have a Boomer. Why change characters instead of making new ones? Some of the orignial BSG fans say Moore thought a female has to act like a crude brute in order to be seen as strong and independent. Plsu you get a feel its almost like the rabid fans of the Orginal starwars being angry with the re-make is something that BSG is facing. They accuse the re-make as just a poor attempt at cashing in on a previous franchise and say it is making an incredibly poor and cliché ridden show while you're at it. These fans are unhappy with the "documentary style" battle coverage was sucky and a number wanted it to be marginally like the Babylon 5 battle sequences, which were shot semi-documentary style. I've also seen others accuse BSG of stealing bulks of material from BladeRunner, the Prisioner, Firefly, Imposter and a heap of other sci-fi authors like Bradbury, Asmov, Heinlein, Clarke, Philip.K.Dick, but if they had stolen so much you'd think this wouldn't be a bad thing. The die-hard fans of the original appear very unhappy with the drama in today's Battlestar galactica saying the new BSG = Days of our lives in space. Remarks have been made that character reacting to their boyfriend/Girlfriend actions or having cancer or mistakes they made in the past is melodrama, and many of the trekkies accuse BSG of this. I think I may have been influenced after reading the views of others, but I still think BSG is good. I

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