Is anyone watching Battlestar Galactica? (Hinting of 9-11??)Mega Vanity -sorry

Today | RandallFlagg

[delapaz]

the Cylons made 12 or so blonde android chicks, the rest of them appear to be fighters robots, and probably many other varieties we havent seen yet.

The robot Cylons look extremely cool. The opening storyline is: Humans created Cylons and then had a war with them. The War was concluded with a peace treaty and there has been no contact with cylons for forty years. Now they've come back in these new forms and are blowing everything to hell. Battlestar Galactica was being decommissioned but now it is back in action and they are pulling old Vipers from museums and putting them into battle.

Opening scene had a guy looking at cylon specs on paper as they originally were created and they looked like the original TV series, nice touch.

Vipers fly in space with reactionary thrusters, much more believable than the original series. Although they still don't fly quite right as they really should, but it's a start.

Good good stuff so far. If you absolutely loved the original, you won't like it. but if you remember that the original was 1970's space schlock, you will like the way they fixed things.

[pcx99]

And I have to say I like the shinier old Cylons. These guys just don't do it. What are they trying to do with this. Reminds me of Starship Troopers with something else. Just can't figure out what that something else is

The old cylons were in a black and white world -- the US vs the evil empire. You could spot them a mile away. The new cylons the cylons walk among us. They use our technology against us, they are the products of our unrestrained technology. The old cylons wore black hats, the new cylons are right out of our modern nightmares :(

[Trajan88]

Are there going to be 2003 versions of the original show's hotties in the cast (or was that "Buck Rogers in the 21st Century")?

If so, I'm watching.

Trajan

[mhking]

Yeah, you're right, but it's not quite as hokey as I thought it would be.

Even though the acting IS more wooden than AlGore...

[billbears]

I guess I could see that. Batman. That's the feeling I get about the other show. Don't know why but it reminds me of the first few Batman movies, that darkness the director instilled with lighting on top of the darkness of the night?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Are you watching? :]

[RandallFlagg]

You just nailed the similarities between this and the war on terror. "Enemy among us."

Right on the head!

[IncPen]

No!

[The Electrician]

Echoes of LBJ taking the oath of office after the Kennedy assassination...

[RandallFlagg]

Yeah. There'll never be another Wilma Dearing...

[null and void]

Damm I gotta get cable, or a dish...

[delapaz]

touching scene just now of a ship leaving caprica(sp?) and having to choose by lottery who gets to go, left a whole crowd behind. Like Saigon in 1975. The new Baltar is able to get on the ship after refusing the cliche of taking the old blind woman's ticket (I was sure we were going to see that cliche again, nice twist that it wasn't)

[Arkinsaw]

The old cylons were in a black and white world -- the US vs the evil empire. You could spot them a mile away. The new cylons the cylons walk among us. They use our technology against us, they are the products of our unrestrained technology. The old cylons wore black hats, the new cylons are right out of our modern nightmares :(

Pretty much. We will see if the show remains true to it. It was interesting that the government broadcast their willingness to offer total and unconditional surrender and the Cylons didn't even reply. Must have been democrats.

[The Dude Abides]

I've flown those space fights a 1000 times in the Wing Commander series of games. Right down to chasing nuclear missles away from a carrier.

Still.... Waaaaaaahhhhhhh.

Its not the 70's show. Wolfman Jack is not a character. But its cool.

[mhking]

Good good stuff so far. If you absolutely loved the original, you won't like it. but if you remember that the original was 1970's space schlock, you will like the way they fixed things.

The various nods to the old series are subtle but cool in a geeky sort of way.

I'm pleasantly surprised. It isn't a direct take on the old series, but it's not quite as hokey as the old series was either.

Just damn.

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[mhking]

Reminds me of Starship Troopers with something else. Just can't figure out what that something else is

Mixing Starship Troopers with the Lost In Space remake.

[JustAnAmerican]

"There are a lot of folks who will refuse to give the new a try. I can understand that, but this is pretty good if you treat it as something on its own."

Actually it's more along the lines of not watching it because of PC gone amuck. Anytime a show replaces key players in order to be PC it's garbage in my book. No different then the Libs trying to change the color of the firemen who raised the 9/11 flag.

I was all set to watch it, even if they replaced the Cylons with humans. However when I saw they replaced Starbuck with a woman I lost all interest. For the same reason I refused to watch to watch the movie adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel when I found out they replaced the arab terrorists with skin heads.

[SaveTheChief]

Yes. This is the strong-willed-woman-who-will-bring-everyone-together-and-fight-evil character, as opposed to the other formula character, the bumbling-white-guy-who-is-hated-by-everyone-and-exposed-as-a-traitorous-evil-rich-conservative.

[HitmanLV]

My tivo is catching the 3rd airing on the West Coast, like 1:13am or something.

I got the 9-11 impression a lot just from the commercials.

For what it's worth, this show does look bad!

[somemoreequalthanothers]

The stupid kid and robot dog weren't until later seasons when it jumped the shark. The first year or two, like most shows, was excellent. Like Star Trek, I'm too much of a purist to do "BG, the next generation".