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Battlestar Galactica
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I fell in love with Battlestar Galactica. The cylon terminators of the 80s had haunting English-speaking accents and eerie mono-eyed
red siren lights that kept me hypnotised to
the tv episodes. A good dose of space stuff
beats dull boring drudgery of school or work.
In those days, I was 15 yrs. I procrastinated
my homework every week as if a university
entrance qualification didn't matter. I never
got U.E. Hey, that's life. Failure is part of
success - nobody's perfect. The future is what
we make of it. As a scifi fan, I believe
watching this kind of stuff keeps you going.
No worries whatsoever.
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
Posted By:  Nomad Dec 13, 2003 - 01:21 pm |       | lol... Hey Zim, didn't they show atleast one Cylon Base Ship coming out of the Storm?
| Posted By: ZimNova Dec 13, 2003 - 02:40 pm | | Yeah sure but still these were "stealth" Cylons.
Remember during Babylon how special it was when we finely get to see a Shadow Sentient? (I've got the action figure too!) We had seen their ships for a year before we got that first brief glimpse of one while Mr. Garibaldi was monitoring Mr. Morden in his jail cell. They were creepy to the max and really alien to anything we had seen anywhere before.
During BG they could have at least given us a couple of interior shots aboard the command carrier showing the Cylon enemy.
As it was the Cylon threat was more innuendo than actual and I was disappointed in not seeing more of them as they were after all a major part of the story.
Maybe this being the pilot for a series the producers are holding back more Cylon's to build up anticipation towards that possible series?
Or maybe they were just plain too cheap to give us more Cylon's in what was a character driven mini-series?
I have to say the two we saw on the space station were poorly rendered CGI and their motion was jerky so maybe seeing that the producers felt those Cylon's would not be convincing to the audience?
In any event imho BG suffered as a result of not seeing more Cylons and would be an insult to the memory of the original series where there were plenty of Cylon's running amuck among the Humans. ZimNova
| Posted By: Nomad Dec 13, 2003 - 07:11 pm | | Point well taken. 
I thought BG was simply another example of mediocre Sci-Fi fare. **Yawn** I expected more, because of all of the fuss that fans of the original series were making. Of course, as Sci-Lie channel does so well, they hype something so much by the time we actually see it...blah.
The special effects were decent, but nothing out of the ordinary. Compared to the original TV series they were excellent. But I kinda liked the campiness of the orignal TV series.
At any rate, I don't really care if Sci-Lie makes it a series or not.
As for their claim about the ratings...I find that very questionable. I think sometimes they "blow their own horn" in an attempt to put a positive "spin" on their programming.
Let's face it, Sci-Lie has really gone into the dumper, and I don't see any improvement on the horizon.
Couldn't happen to a better network. Maybe, just maybe they'll learn a lesson. Maybe.
Let's face it, nothing can compete with B5...the all time best Sci-Fi series, with Farscape a close second.
I thought it was pretty awesome and here's hoping that there is more -- it seems like the show was optioned to maybe become a series... here's the press release:
12:00pm ET, 3-February-04
Galactica Options Picked Up
SCI FI Channel has officially confirmed to SCI FI Wire that the network picked up the options for the cast of its original miniseries Battlestar Galactica before they expired on Jan. 31. But the pickup did not signal any official decision about the fate of a possible Galactica series, despite rumors on the Internet to the contrary.
SCI FI said that no decision has come from the network on whether a series will be given the green light.
The Battlestar Galactica miniseries, which premiered in December, was one of the channel's highest-rated programs. Galactica, based on the original 1970s TV show, starred Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, Katee Sackhoff, Tricia Helfer and James Callis.
| Posted By: Sindatur Feb 11, 2004 - 01:44 pm | | Well, I guess they made a decision...From Scifi Wire:
Ronald D. Moore, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's upcoming new series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that the new series will develop existing characters, introduce a few new ones and take familiar ones into unexpected territory. "Some of the dynamics between Laura [Mary McDonnell] and Adama [Edward James Olmos] are going to be different than I think people are expecting," Moore said in an interview.
Moore added, "I think people are expecting a very sort of simplistic 'she's the dove, and he's the hawk, and they're going to knock heads together, and she'll always be trying to be reasonable and he'll always be hardline, and then they'll work it out.' ... And it's going to be more complicated than that. Those two characters specifically are going to go in a direction that I don't think people will expect."
At the end of the Galactica miniseries that premiered last December, it was revealed that Boomer (Grace Park) may be a sleeper agent aboard the battlestar. Moore promised that the new series will revisit that, "but it's going to take a while to tease that out. So that won't be resolved in any way or shape or form in the first episode. [But] we're going to pick it up."
Some of the new series' stories will come out of the dynamics in the "ragtag fleet" of Colonial ships fleeing the Cylon menace. "They've got this collection of ships," Moore said. "Some are going to be in better shape than others. And who is on these ships? And who's in charge exactly in some of these cases? And I think there will be a lot of stuff that will be fun to play."
As for the miniseries' most conflicted character, James Callis' Baltar, Moore said, "Baltar is an interesting character in that he's out for himself. And that might propel him to act in the interest of the Colonials, on occasion, and sometimes it makes him act in the interest of the Cylons. But he's truly out for himself. Like he said at the end of the pilot, he's not on anybody's side. Which I think makes him an interesting person, because then you're never quite sure which way he's going to jump." Production commences next month in Vancouver, B.C.
| Posted By: ZimNova Feb 11, 2004 - 07:15 pm | | Hummmm, I've always wanted to be a screenwriter.
Warning: Severe Sarcasm Follows
Moore added, "I think people are expecting a very sort of simplistic 'she's the dove, and he's the hawk, and they're going to knock heads together, and she'll always be trying to be reasonable and he'll always be hardline, and then they'll work it out.' ... And it's going to be more complicated than that. Those two characters specifically are going to go in a direction that I don't think people will expect."
OK, let's see...got it!
We'll put simplistic characters into situations where that character will react "differently" than the audience expects them to based on plot line developments and past story arc history and then "trick" them with a new twist and look like genius', can we say Emmy people?
Man, this is going great.
Next we'll bring in some simple stories that the "sheeple", sorry boss I saw that term on the internet, will cling to like life-vests on the Titantic to hold their interest while we throw in some wacky plot twists to keep everyone guessing until the next NEW episode airs, after of course a 2 month hiatus putting it into "sweeps" week.
People get paid to do this?
Your kidding me right? I LOVE this job.
I was talking to Berman & Braga over at the Enterprise set and they like my ideas...a LOT!
Then I stopped off at the Andromeda set, 'cause their catering truck is the best in Vancouver, ran into Kevin Sorbo and pitched him this unique and orginal idea for a "cross over" between his show and ours (we're both produced by Tribune Entertainment, what a blessing).
Andromeda slipstreams into out time, Beka frelled up big time (as usual?), and Capt. Dylan Hunt offers his help with out problem with the Cylons but after a heroic effort has to, after the standard "crew conflicts", get this, obey a message from Trance warning of the failure of the entire Space/Time continuum should both crews not return to their own time or BOTH universes will be lost.
THINK of THE RATINGS! ZimNova
| Posted By: Sindatur Feb 12, 2004 - 06:41 am | | LOL Zim, I'm not sure if they'll show an entire two months before going to re-runs or having the long wait in between, as the first season is so far only ordered for 13 episodes. So, probably they'll show 3 episodes in the first 3 months, than 3, then 3, then wow us with 4 for the final 3 months of the year, LOL.
My take on BG - Apollo waswaaaay naff. Starbuck I could get used to. And the rest pretty good, other than the ending with Boomer (explain that one, I dare ya!)
As for the series, please put someone with an imagination in charge... PLEASE!!!
Boomer might be a sleeper agent....
Well the powers that be decided to play the miniseries in NZ before it got old and covered in dust........
overall it was OK....
I didn't think much of the Special effects
The attack on the planet was handled badly....I just didn't get the feel of destruction...
The since of loss was haddle better when they had to leave those ships behind.....
President was good
I did not think much of the Cylons (the robort ones)
So now they can look like us, that will make it alot easier to make.....
As for the chip in the head.....I'm watch Farscape at the moment, season 3 about 3 or 4 eps to go in that season...then season 4..shows you how behind we are overhere....
As for first season I don't know if and when I will see it......TV3 did play the first season of farscape quickly, but then that was it....had to wait an age for season 2 to come out on SKY....
Well, its great news that the show has been taken up and will be s proper series. I really connot wait and think I will score a TiVo before it happens. I wonder how long it takes to produce these shows.
Galactica Fans Reach Ad Goal
Fans of the original Battlestar Galactica TV series announced that they have raised $10,000 to buy national advertisements urging series creator Glen A. Larson and X-Men producer Tom DeSanto to develop a theatrical feature film that picks up the story where the 1970s TV series left off. The fan campaign, organized by The Colonial Fan Force, is a reaction to the SCI FI Channel's upcoming original series Battlestar Galactica, which picks up the story from the Galactica miniseries that aired last December, reimagining the show with a new cast and new premise.
The campaign plans to buy ads in the September issue of Cinescape magazine and the Sept. 17 edition of Daily Variety. The campaign also urges fans to write letters.
SCI FI's Battlestar Galactica, starring Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, is currently in production in Vancouver, B.C., and is expected to premiere in January 2005.
from http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-06/07/09.00.fandom
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