TV shows with really cool space battles: which are best?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, October 25, 2010 02:36
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Which brings me to the question of which design is better: this
or this
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Quote:Stargate: Atlantis?
Originally posted by GWEK:
I would also add both Stargate series, which I would actually put at the top of the heap.
I really liked it...
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Tough call, between OS *Vipers and the new ones.
Easier, ( or not ) the OS Cylon Raiders vs the new models.
*I really DO love the lines on the Viper, but I always wondered...why the intakes for the engines that fly in a vacuum ?
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I kinda prefer the new BSG Vipers...mainly from the fact they decals and paint schemes that are meant to invoke Earth military fighter jets 
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Originally posted by BlueEyedBrigadier:
People, people, people...how can we be dismissing the epic awesomeness of a single lone GunStar against a whole wing of Ko-Dan Armada reverse Y-wing fighters from The Last Starfighter?!
Um... because THE LAST STARFIGHTER isn't a TV show, maybe?!?
Check out the name of the thread... :P
If we were doing movies, it'd be a very different list--and most of the shows we're talking about wouldn't even make the top 10!
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Stargate: Atlantis?
Originally posted by GWEK:
I would also add both Stargate series, which I would actually put at the top of the heap.
I really liked it...
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I liked Atlantis, but, personally, enjoyed SG-1 more. With respect to this thread, I think that SG-1 had the better epic space battles (same reason DS9 trumps all the other Trek franchises--for this thread, anyway).
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AURaptor wrote:
Friday, October 22, 2010 15:46
*I really DO love the lines on the Viper, but I always wondered...why the intakes for the engines that fly in a vacuum ?
Hydrogen scoops man!!
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
*I really DO love the lines on the Viper, but I always wondered...why the intakes for the engines that fly in a vacuum ?
Don't know too much about the sciencey mechanical side of it but all the Viper models can enter a planets atmosphere and I always assumed it was something to do with that, sort of placing it closer to our modern jet fighters. I believe I read somewhere that the original Vipers (MKI's??) were only capable of atmospheric flight but I'm not sure where I got this idea from.
I would take the OS Viper MkII's over the new MKII's or the MKVII's but it's a very close call as they all look great.
For me, picking between the Raiders is a harder choice but I would probably go with the new Raiders mainly because of the red glowing eye and its unusual shape.
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I just like the new Cylon Raiders, as they look sleeker and do away w/ the separate pilot by making the centurion the ship itself. I mean, why does a machine need to pilot a machine ?
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
We got the original BSG, the new BSG, Babylon 5, Space: Above & Beyond, Deep Space 9, etc...
I'm gonna have to go with Babylon 5 here.
BSG (old & new) is very, very cool, but (like Star Wars) they've gone for "20th Century Air Combat - in spaaaace!!!" (lets face it - its a show about an aircraft carrier) while Trek has gone for "Run Silent, Run Deep - in spaaaace!!!"
Babylon 5 made a much better effort at trying to envisage 3D, zero gravity battle tactics, and the design of the Starfury has subtle but important differences from X-wings and Vipers - designed to pull Crazy Ivans without turning the pilot into chunky salsa.
Plus, B5 was about the first TV show to have big, kick-ass space battles (that didn't consist of the actors running back and forth across the bridge while control panels exploded in sparks*) outside of pilots and season finales.
Its a pity that it doesn't pass the test of time so well: partly due to the "theatrical" style of the drama and partly because the decision to release the DVDs in widescreen meant the CGI and composite sequences all had to be zoomed and cropped.
* at least New BSG had an excuse for not having low voltage fly-by-wire controls - although they could have done with less shatter-prone plate glass in their C&C decor.
PS, hate to be morbid, but why is it that the main cause of fatality in space operas (apart from having a control panel explode in your face for no apparent reason) seems to be having a steel girder fall on you? Even B5 did this, although they did have a fair number of radiation burns, too. I guess that explosive decompression doesn't give you enough chance for dramatic Last Words...
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