New Battlestar Rocks!
POSTED BY: Calhoun
UPDATED: Monday, December 6, 2004 11:30
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Sky One is getting it first only because they put up half (or more) of the $$$ required to produce the series. I haven't heard it having anything to do with "test marketing" before now.....where'd you hear that?
It does rock, though.
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I cracked up in the episode where Starbuck shouts "Frack me".
I wonder when we'll get a "felgercarb", remember that one?
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The scenes with the new Baltar amuse me as well. He comes across really well as a paranoid psycotic. The sexy cylon chick in his head would be somewhat a problem i'd say, the man would be walking around with a permanent hard-on. 
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Charactor developement has improved dramatically. This should be a must watch in Jan or via early sharing (cough cough).
Are You Asking me to Dance?
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I read on another board that the version to be played in Jan might have a re-edit depending on the results from Sky One...
Maybe abit of both
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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
I read on another board that the version to be played in Jan might have a re-edit depending on the results from Sky One...
Maybe abit of both
Yeah, they may have to dumb it down for the American Audience. We-uns ain't got much smarts. We needs more wrastlin' and nudity.
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I've seen that 1 Hour presentation they aired on Sci-fi. It kinda took me by surprise when they switched the genders on a few roles.
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Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with till you
understand who's in rutting command here.
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With ya 100% about this show.
I saw the mini-series and thought it was the best TV I'd watched since Firefly. Why? Real drama!
... and the look of the show is a new artistic standard thanks to the people at Zoic! FX.
Battlestar Galactica was a Star Wars ripoff from the late 70s that became a TV show... and was cancelled after a season. The show was cheezy, badly written, and was mostly about Starbucks hair... which survived to play a role in The A-Team!
This remake, or reimaging, looks great and has a completely different tone. Rather like the original shows focus on the characters so too does this new production but with a definate edge that pushes the show into actual drama. The characters are all connected to each other emotionally without the silly stereo types. Starbuck and Apollo have a real reason to be close friends, for example.
The action shots are truly fantastic! Unlike other Sci-Fi shows that just look like toys shooting rays at each other in a video game, BG breaks into shaky cameras and clumbsy zoom shots giving the action tention, speed, and real ... hey I'll say it again - drama. I can tell these SPFX are done by Zoic! I noticed Serenity landing in one shot! lol!!!
The cylons were just robots to shoot, but in this new show the cylons have done something no one seems to have noticed. They destroyed all of humanity with almost no effort... because it was easier to use human weakness (Baltar) to destroy us. Drama!
Most Sci-Fi shows in the past have had ships floating about like little toys shooting rays at one another. Everything was smooth and easy - and boring. Well you know, I love spacy ships as much as the next guy but here comes something that, imho, makes all the space battles of the past seem like old fashioned SPFX. We are seeing the dawn of a new era where being slick isn't good enough... you have to be dramatic! Exciting!
You know, we have been flooded with slick CGI space battles and such for years. Hey great but it all has started to look suspiciously like someone was trying to sell me a toy. You know, a good French Connection car chase would be lame incarnate if it was filmed like a TV ad.
This new BG used shaky cameras, clumbsy zooms, and just blew me away with the tention and drama of these visuals. A real accomplisment in my view.
SO glad this is to be a series. Now if only Starbuck would come to my place and knock me around for a bit. 
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Originally posted by Calhoun:
The scenes with the new Baltar amuse me as well. He comes across really well as a paranoid psycotic. The sexy cylon chick in his head would be somewhat a problem i'd say, the man would be walking around with a permanent hard-on.
Are you saying this is a sort of Cylon Viagra?
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I've been watchin every week and have to say this is a good show and its getting better by the week. Its dark and almost unrelenting at times, good characters - I was worried about the whole Starbuck being a woman but she's great. The last episode with "the sexy cylon chick" was really really good. Yep, an improvement on the previous incarnation without a doubt.
"This movie may be a beautiful butterfly, but I loved that damn caterpillar." Joss Whedon.
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