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TV Spotlight: THE CREATORS AND CAST OF BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SPEAK AT TV FESTIVAL
iFMagazine.com ^ | 03/07/06 | SEAN ELLIOTT

Posted on 03/07/2006 5:31:16 PM PST by KevinDavis

The Museum of Television and Radio’s 23rd Annual William S. Paley Television Festival in Los Angeles (which continues through March 15) got off to an impressive start last week. The festival selects a different TV series or personality each night and has screenings of episodes followed by Q & A sessions with the cast and creative teams. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was the subject of such a panel on March 3rd, and iF MAGAZINE was there to get the scoop. Featured in the panel were the shows producers and creators: Ronald D. Moore and David Eick. Also on hand were series headliners: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis and Grace Park. Here are a few highlights from the event.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: battlestar; bsg; glassteat
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To: Sam the Sham
I absolutely love Babylon 5.

Me, too. To me, the best part of B5 was that the Starfurries DID NOT fly thru space like airplanes! (a la "Star Wars" and the old "Battlestar Galactica") They flew and maneuvered just like they should if flying in a vacuum...

21 posted on 03/07/2006 6:29:28 PM PST by dirtbiker (I've tried to see the liberal point of view, but I couldn't get my head that far up my a$$....)
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To: LdSentinal

Just the best of Starfleet.

I'm certain there were lots of small patrol and recon craft left. Just the biggest ships of the line were destroyed.


22 posted on 03/07/2006 6:30:35 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: dirtbiker

The final season was much maligned. For me, it was more than redeemed by the "The Corp is Mother, the Corp is Father" episode where we see that the villainous Bester is, within Psi Corps to other 'teeps', a pretty nice guy.


23 posted on 03/07/2006 6:32:24 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: KevinDavis

Did you catch the bit in the last episode where Anders speculates about how many 'skin jobs' there are in the cafe they are about to blow up ?

'Skin jobs'. Wasn't that the slur for replicants Deckards lieutenant used in 'Blade Runner' ?


24 posted on 03/07/2006 6:33:49 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: Sam the Sham
It could be that just as many ships that can be found in such a short time to set up a counter-attack after Picard was captured.

They just sent the Enterprise for that reason in Star Trek: TMO.

25 posted on 03/07/2006 6:34:46 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Sam the Sham; All

I think so..


26 posted on 03/07/2006 6:53:48 PM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: LdSentinal

I disagree.

Any fleet has a distinction between ships used primarily for patrol and recon and exploration and battle ships of the line which would be kept in the major starbases.

When the Borgs drove for Earth, the major starbases around Earth assembled the battle line.


27 posted on 03/07/2006 6:57:56 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: Sam the Sham; All

What happend was that JMS was told that Season 4 was going to be the last season, TNT picked up Babylon 5 and order a new season, so he had to put a Season 5 together fast..


28 posted on 03/07/2006 7:16:44 PM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: Sam the Sham
I adore the moral ambiguity. We had an outright evil human leader in Admiral Cain who essentially turned Battlestar Pegasus into a pirate ship with a vicious, brutalized crew.

I agree, it's good in the sense that it forces the viewer to think for himself, instead of the way most shows practically come out and tell you right up front whom you're supposed to sympathize with and whom you're supposed to hate. Admiral Cain did some downright ugly things for which she deserved to die, but she also had a dogged commitment that I had to grudgingly respect. If it weren't for her, her ship and crew probably wouldn't have survived all that time.

Another thing about the show that really keeps my interest is the way their society so closely parallels ours, even in all but a very small number of areas of technology. It's hardly realistic, I agree, but I'm willing to forgive it as a form of artistic license, because it's the only scifi show I've seen that actually makes space seem so accessible. And we're not that far from the point (here in our own society, that is) where space tourism can become a regular thing, and once that happens, it can become cheaper and even more accessible as time goes on.

29 posted on 03/07/2006 8:29:38 PM PST by inquest (If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
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To: Sam the Sham

Sure you could. Let's say there are 100 planets in the Federation and each one has an average of a billion people. After "First Contact", a call goes out to replace the losses that Starfleet took. If a thousandth of a percent of the citizens answer the call, you've got a million new recruits. That's more than enough to restaff the lost ships, especially since the Enterprise is the only one that ever actually does anything. Every other ship seems to be guarding the mail run between Earth and Alpha Centauri.


30 posted on 03/07/2006 9:07:24 PM PST by Starter
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To: Starter

Like the Japanese Navy after Midway you replace crack pilots with raw recruits. Like I said, Starfleet would not have recovered for a generation.


31 posted on 03/08/2006 3:47:33 AM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: KevinDavis

Noone remembers Space: Above and Beyond. Much better than the soap opera in space B5.

Of course, they had their share of drama, but the acting and camraderie was much better, and Morgan & Wong did just a great job of writing.


32 posted on 03/08/2006 5:38:55 AM PST by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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To: KevinDavis

It's not really that he had to put season 5 together fast, the problem is there was so little sign of being able to get season 5 out that a lot of the big plot points that were originally going to be in 5 got moved forward to the end of 4 so when they finally got green lighted for 5 (after filming the intended last episode of the series, shows how much doubt there was) there wasn't much of the core plot left to work with. But IMHO the fall of Centauri Prime and the episode "View from the Gallery" (showing what it's like to be a little guy on B5) made the season worth while, yeah it lacked the focus and the oomph of seasons 3 and 4 but it was still a pretty good 22 episodes.


33 posted on 03/08/2006 7:10:38 AM PST by discostu (a time when families gather together, don't talk, and watch football... good times)
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To: Ro_Thunder
Space: Above and Beyond.

I liked SAB as well, though I often had a hard time suspending my disbelief that this nugget squadron of pilots would get sent out on grunt-level foot patrols constantly.

This is the part of the post where I whine about how badly I want Firefly back on my TV.

35 posted on 03/10/2006 12:55:36 PM PST by AngryJawa ("Sure'd be nice if we had some grenades, dontcha think?" - Jayne Cobb... [NRA])
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