Takin' a poll: Which Viper do you prefer?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 13:36
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Forget which show you like better... which DESIGN is more aesthetically appealing?
For me, the original wins by a slim margin.
How about y'all? 
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Ha ha, real funny; very mature!
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Much as the original Vipers were cool enough, I like the new BSG's Colonial Vipers. Always struck me as more realistic as fighter craft, and the pilots look like fighter pilots! I honestly couldn't get over how the original Apollo & Co. basically wore nothing resembling flight or G-suits when flying exo-atmospheric craft!
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Originally posted by BlueEyedBrigadier:
Much as the original Vipers were cool enough, I like the new BSG's Colonial Vipers. Always struck me as more realistic as fighter craft, and the pilots look like fighter pilots! I honestly couldn't get over how the original Apollo & Co. basically wore nothing resembling flight or G-suits when flying exo-atmospheric craft!
I concur...The second-series Vipers are more refined and plausible.
The first-series models looked like...models.
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I'm going with the newer version for the reasons above.
But, it is very close.
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I'm going to differ from most of you above because I prefer the original Viper. It is a close call because the new Viper MkII's look fantastic and handle even better but there's just something about the original that has always stayed with me. I love the three 'wings', the three big engines and the general overall dart shape.
Plus I could add that without the original Viper we wouldn't have the new look Vipers. But that's just stating the obvious.
As for the pilots then the new ones win easily. I never liked the 'flight suits' in the original show either, especially the helmet. As uniforms they were fine but just didn't cut it for space travel. The newer ones look like genuine flight suits and I seem to remember hearing that that's how they were designed, to be as close to functional as possible.
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