Battlestar Galactica Movie Happening, But Not The One You Want (Remake the original version)

Internet Movie Database ^ | 2009-02-20 | Josh Tyler

[max americana]

Well, just like tlb said: Starbuck a man? The new Starbuck is horrible, and pls. don’t get me started with that feminist crap.

I don’t mind the new movie but we haven’t seen the new Star Trek yet so hold off on the JJ Abrams worship...BTW, HE MADE ‘CLOVERFIELD’.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Except they aren’t using the version you saw on TV as the film’s basis.

So this "writer" is telling me that I didn't see the original BSG on TV? Guess I must have imagined it.

[Richard Kimball]

Only BSG I ever liked were the ones that featured Lloyd Bridges commanding the Pegasus. Anyone else remember those episodes?

[wally_bert]

It took a good season for me to accept new BSG and I do like it fairly well. As a kid watching the original, even with the problems it had, the original is still the best. The original had optimism.

Just leave Boxey and the Daggit out of it, they were hard to deal with then.

If a big screen production based on the original makes it, one thing I would like to see would be to bring back as many of the original cast memebers as possible in some form or fashion in supporting roles or in the background.

Between the new series and the Richard Hatch vision, I would have rather had Richard's.

[TheWasteLand]

Well, look at the positive. If RDM isn’t involved it means it’s more likely it will have a coherent, logical plot, rather than a bunch of “actors” running around being “gritty” among a morass of inconsistent illogical shark jumping.

[Charles Martel]

Thanks for the link, didn’t know about it. Filmed at a convention, no doubt.

[Charles Martel]

Only BSG I ever liked were the ones that featured Lloyd Bridges commanding the Pegasus. Anyone else remember those episodes?

Yep. The only two-parter in the original series, as I recall. The new show mangled the Caine character, too. That was when I lost interest in it.

[Lord_Baltar]

Here’s an EVEN BETTER version.

BTW, the Little Blond Warrior is Starbuck’s Daughter, and the Dark Haired Cadet is Boxey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybIyzTO4zhU&feature=related

[Lord_Baltar]

Try the one I just posted

[Lord_Baltar]

I agree.

Tom DeSanto’s version was pretty cool conceptually too.

Ronnie Moore’s angst ridden POS was complete garbage.

[Kickass Conservative]

If Al Sharpton and the NAACP get a hold of that picture, forget the new BG Movie.

Unless Obama plays Admiral Adama and Barbara Boxer wears the Daggit suit of course.

[wally_bert]

In spite of their shortcomings, I loved Sheriff Lobo and Automan. I met Mills Watson at a convention in Charlotte when I was a kid. He seemed very nice.

He was at a long table with some woman a little further down. After me and my younger sister got his autograph, somehow we got hers too. We met our parents at the end of the table and they were laughing.

The lady was a Playboy playmate and the photo was G Rated. At the time, neither of us got it. I couldn't have been more than 8 or 9.

BJ was OK for the first few seasons. Manimal - no thanks. Buck Rogers S1 was OK but the radical shift in S2 killed it for me early on. Knight Rider to me was a mixed bag at best.

It took a while for me to like Magnum PI. Magnum came on before Simon & Simon and S&S was a big favorite.

Quincy on the other hand was and is one of my all time favorite shows. Even as a lad, Quincy held my interest. Quincy wouldn't stop until he had answers and got results. Another thing about Quincy was that he would go toe to toe with anyone when he believed he was right.

[Richard Kimball]

If the show had been about Caine, I would have watched it every week (the original.) Lloyd Bridges was my hero, as a kid. I wanted to be Mike Nelson. I ended up being a rescue diver because of Lloyd. of course, Roy and Johnny on Emergency! had a lot to do with it, too. They’re why I got into high angle rescue.

[Lord_Baltar]

Here’s a look at what DeSanto started on for Battlestar.

http://battlestargalactica.com/newfilms.htm

[fr_freak]

I have no idea where you get that. Early on the show explored the War on Terror and took a very conservative position. The populace wanted to ignore the enemy and go back to pre-war lives.......and they paid for it. The show also questioned the political correctness of abortion during a fight for species survival.

I've got no argument with you there - the show started out great. The first season or so was great TV. Later on, though, the hippie thinking started creeping into the show to the point where fighter pilots were questioning whether they really had the right to kill Cylons, and whether Cylons were really evil, and maybe human beings were just as much to blame, etc. etc. etc. The downhill slide accelerated exponentially when the humans established their new colony, then got occupied by the Cylons, wherein we got to see humans engaging in suicide bombings in some twisted attempt at an Iraq War parallel, with the Cylons as the Americans, apparently. Some of the left-wing Hollywood thinking in the show was subtle, but some of it got so in-your-face that it was ridiculous.

The question of the hippie aspects of the show aside, though, I've always had one really nagging question: if the Galactica humans really, really believed that Earth was the last surviving human colony, while at the same time the Cylons had an entire, technically superior fleet bent on the destruction of humans shadowing Galactica the entire way, why would those idiot humans lead them right to Earth? They would be dooming Earth to the same genocide that the other 12 worlds suffered. Seems extremely selfish and short-sighted to me.

[Shadowstrike]

I hate with a purple rage the current crap on sci-fi. I’m glad that they will go back to ‘basics’ myself.

[Lord_Baltar]

“The question of the hippie aspects of the show aside, though, I’ve always had one really nagging question: if the Galactica humans really, really believed that Earth was the last surviving human colony, while at the same time the Cylons had an entire, technically superior fleet bent on the destruction of humans shadowing Galactica the entire way, why would those idiot humans lead them right to Earth? They would be dooming Earth to the same genocide that the other 12 worlds suffered. Seems extremely selfish and short-sighted to me.”

Well, if you watch the real Galactica, and not Battlestar 90210, the answer makes more sense.

In the original, the people of the fleet escaped the colonies, but were pursued by only a portion of the Cylon fleet, much of which was spread out looking for them. As the fleet got further away from the colonies, the size of the remaining Cylon force was more and more depleted.

Now, if you’re watching Battlesex Galactica, how can the fleet really escape, what with all the Botoxed-beyond-immobility former Playboy Bunnys, er, Cylons, intermingled into the fleet.

[Secret Agent Man]

And I never got into the chick pilots. Starbuck is a dude. The women just need to look good.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Another thread on the subject ping!

[Lord_Baltar]

A link to the other thread request ping