Olmos transports from 'Family 'to 'Battlestar Galactica'

Pittsburgh Post Gazette ^ | April 29, 2003 | Rob Owen, Post-Gazette TV Editor

[RayBob]

The first season of PBS's "American Family," in which Edward James Olmos plays the conservative patriarch of a Hispanic Los Angeles family, comes out on DVD today.

But it's his role as another patriarch that's bound to get TV viewers in their 30s and 40s talking. Olmos is filming Sci Fi Channel's miniseries remake of the late '70s TV show "Battlestar Galactica." Olmos takes over the role of Commander Adama, originally played by the late Lorne Greene.

[strela]

Neat premise, but the show didn't last very long IIRC. I guess it struck a chord with a kid who regularly converted an old gym locker into a race car/spaceship/submarine in the back yard.

[CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN]

You said it right sister! I loved that show.

[Charles Martel]

I'm a long time SF fan, but this looks like a train-wreck waiting to happen. And like the proverbial train-wreck, I won't be able to tear myself away.

Yup. And about the character-driven nature of the new show... it turns out that the "Starbuck" character is female, this time around. Given that, uh, change, I wonder if Starbuck will still be a babe-hound? < shakes head in bemused disgust >

[yarddog]

Jane was really pretty but "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman" pretty much defines the term "PC".

I guess the only way they could have made it any more politically correct would be to change her boyfriend into a Lesbian.

[Sam's Army]

Salvage1: The spaceship made out of spare parts from a junkyard or something like that, right? Lasted what, 1 season in the late 70's?

[ASA Vet]

I thought "First Wave" was very good

Tracy Lords did provide a little eye candy.
She was better looking when she was 15.

[CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN]

We've had that already. It was called Independence Day.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Sci-fi is showing 'Battlestar Galactica 1980' (not to be confused with the original 'Battlestar Galactica') on Fridays. That is considered to be the WORST sci-fi series EVER made.

By the way, in the new 'Battlestar Galactica' series, Starbuck is a played by a GIRL!!

For those reading this that don't understand how profane and bad a change like this is, imagine if there was a Star Wars remake and Han Solo was played by a girl and you get the idea.

And yes I am a Farscape fan.

[Kieri]

... it turns out that the "Starbuck" character is female, this time around. Given that, uh, change, I wonder if Starbuck will still be a babe-hound?

Starbuck, a girl?

Well, frell me dead!

[Paul C. Jesup]

The character Starbuck was the Han Solo of the series. Now do you understand.

[Michael Barnes]

By the way, in the new 'Battlestar Galactica' series, Starbuck is a played by a GIRL!!

So, what are they gonna call her? Stardoe?

[Kieri]

So, what are they gonna call her? Stardoe?

If she's as frisky as Starbuck and the series is PC, wouldn't she be Stardyke?

I've sunk to a new low...

[ASA Vet]

Maren Jensen

[Michael Barnes]

heh-heh....In the mindset of PC, starperson.

[discostu]

Galactica 80 WAS the worst SciFi series ever. Then came the triple threat of SeaQuest DSV, Earth 2 and Space Above and Beyond. Now Galactica 80 is barely hanging in the top 5.

[Michael Barnes]

Gee, thanks..Just when Sea Quest DSV was purged from my grey matter, you had to go and screw it up by mentioning it..

;)

[discostu]

We must never forget the horror, only by remember can we keep it from ever happening again.

[Michael Barnes]

[Paul C. Jesup]

Space Above and Beyond, ROCKED, this why is was canseled.

[Kieri]

How about one of John Crichton in his leather coat, just for us ladies?