Let me guess who played "Muffit".
Star Trek tackled big issues that transcended party; it didn't target the LBJ Administration (both the DNC and GOP were advocates of the Cold War, for example). Don't know why these cowpokes want to alienate 50% of their viewing audience right out of the gate. Meh!
Yeah, six inhabited planets (or whatever) with populations in the billions got wiped out but put a pair of panties on a Cylon's head...
The new Galactica sucked. Ronald Moore is a tool. I hope it gets cancelled fast!
That sure is a curious strategy to insult fans of the original. Good thing the gentleman didn't choose a career in rocket science.
I remember several episodes on the planet "Terra". Eastern Alliance vs. Western Alliance. Pro Cold-War stuff.
There was a lot of relgious imagery on the original BG. Much of it Jewish, but certainly an awareness of a higher authority.
Lastly, the respect that the military and cilivian populations had for each other was evident in the original BG. If anything, the respect was more military-to-civilian than civilian-to-military.
This is why I am just about ready to totally boycott hollywood. If Kerry gets elected I will never go to see another movie again. Im not going to watch the new Galactica either. Im going to be very choosy in what I watch from now on too.
Gracious! I thought this was an article from the onion. Weren't Cylon's machines?!!! I always thought Battlestar Galactica was cheesy and silly. Lorne Green was trying to out do William Shatner's over-acting to the nth degree. Of course, Shatner can get away with that because his whole actor personna was based on emoting. Not so with the Ponderosa guy. ;)
The fact that some network is bringing back the Galactica series (that supposedly once touted a conservative Mormon influence) and will try to make it a lefty-spouting vehicle is cheesy and silly to the nth degree.
Let me guess who played "Muffit".
Lemme guess. Next episode will feature a an alien who has the power to magically cause the regular characters to change genders. Or there's a planet that's ruled by an evil corporation, blah, blah, blah... There are people who like science fiction because the fantastic is a great change of pace. There are others who seem to like it because realistic storytelling is just something they're not capable of understanding or liking. And then there are those few who both like science fiction and are interested enough in science to understand it. Some of them actually wrote some halfway decent science fiction.
How do you torture a robot? Withhold its WD-40?
I guess this is one reason why I liked Babylon 5 so much. I some how doubt Captain Sheridan would have hesitated to "torture" a machine. He sure didn't hesitate to eliminate (as in "destroy") the 2nd Ambassador Kosh when his presence presented a security risk!
The Farscape movie is on tonight. that's a pretty good show.
Battlestar Gallactica? I haven't seen that in yahrens.
In the pilot they already did that, but this was before Abu Garib. For those who did not see the show. The Cylons in this show look like people and the purpose of the mistreatment was to determine if the prisoner was a Cylon and to extract information.
I don't mind oblique references to the events of today, but if they get too heavy handed it will get old quick. They will need to do this with a deft hand. I don't see a big danger in this Clintonian epoch. They can't spin Sci-Fi worse than the DNC spins the real world.
Just like the Old Twilight Zone, the viewer is free to be moved or not, influenced or not by what they see.
I tuned into the first part of the new pilot. After a while, I swiched to MNF. The announcers' swooning chatter about McNair/McNabb (I can't remember which) was more tolerable.
BTW, I saw the original when I was a kid.