Posted on 04/29/2003 8:12:14 AM PDT by RayBob
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:35:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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.
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These 4 aliens (utterly human) from the planet Blob had rented a space podule to haul garbage. Along the way, these idiots got separated from the one guy who had a little more on the ball, and landed in England. James Sikking plays a Jack D. Ripper part as the American colonel on the scene, who doesn't believe it when the Brits tell him repeatedly how stupid the aliens are.
Terribly funny stuff - basically, its like they put lower class Brits in space. The best moment was when the Defense Minister was told that the aliens were playing with the chess board - and it turned out that they were using it as a at to hit chess pieces with.
Deany? Gallano? Mistretta? No, Deany, not Mistretta or Gallano. Deany.
You insulted me first.Then you came up with some jackass crack that because of my musical taste I "wouldn't understand" a stupid movie like the Matrix. Exactly how am I not supposed to take that personally?
You stated on previous thread on the FR to the effect that if music was not owned and release by the RIAA that it was not real music.
The Matrix ISN'T original because the story line is as old as sci fi.
No according to you below statement.
The only original part about the whole thing was that the backplot the constructed for why the world was an illusion made it so there was no concievable reason why the hero would want to break the imaginary world,
Wanting to be free from the chains of an illusion that make you into being a slave, matter how nice the illusion is, is a rightious quest indeed.
Let me guess, you favorite charactor from the Matrix is Cypher.
SAAB wasn't fun. SAAB was painfully boring and the characters were incessant whiners that made me wish somebody would space them.
That's just your opinion. I found the series quite enjoyable.
I can do braindead fun
You must love Reality TV Shows. Personally, I think Reality TV Shows are the worst of the worst of bad tv.
You insulted me first.
Then you came up with some jackass crack that because of my musical taste I "wouldn't understand" a stupid movie like the Matrix. Exactly how am I not supposed to take that personally?
You stated on previous thread on the FR to the effect that if music was not owned and release by the RIAA that it was not real music.
The Matrix ISN'T original because the story line is as old as sci fi.
No according to you below statement.
The only original part about the whole thing was that the backplot the constructed for why the world was an illusion made it so there was no concievable reason why the hero would want to break the imaginary world,
Wanting to be free from the chains of an illusion that make you into being a slave, matter how nice the illusion is, is a rightious quest indeed.
Let me guess, you favorite charactor from the Matrix is Cypher.
SAAB wasn't fun. SAAB was painfully boring and the characters were incessant whiners that made me wish somebody would space them.
That's just your opinion. I found the series quite enjoyable.
I can do braindead fun
You must love Reality TV Shows. Personally, I think Reality TV Shows are the worst of the worst of bad tv.
I personally thought it was the best scifi series of all time with the possible exception of the original Star Trek.
I remember it was a Quinn Martin production and they all had a similar appearance. Also true that it was not a big budget show but they really don't have to be as long as there is enough to do what has to be done.
I think we are losing track of my original comment, which was that (A) I don't want them to bring back B5 because it is "done" and (B) the 5th season was a taste of what B5 would have looked like had it kept going. The reason I said that B5 may have run a season too long is that the arc was over by the end of the 4th season. This was a conscious decision on the author's part. The 5th season was decidedly more episodic and not as strong as the seasons for the reasons that we are discussing. The arc was largely over, as was the epic feel.
ST because it was so formulatic and unchanged, could be played around with forever. So much so that horrible spin offs like Voyager could get to the air and run for years just off the name recognition.
But, sadly, they aren't really following the formula. The orignal Star Trek was about seeking out new life and new civilizations and boldly going where no man has gone before. Now Star Trek is written by fanboys (and fangirls) who simply want to write stories about previously explored aliens, situations, and pay homage to their fandom fetish du jour. It's almost as bad as fan fiction. Almost. Actually, sometimes it is as bad.
I'd watch. Talk about campy! Martin Landau as the commander, and then that transmorph Mia...whoa.
The 5th season also had Day of the Dead. But that doesn't change the fact that the 5th season was quite different in tone from teh previous seasons and that had the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th seasons continued in the same veing, that B5 wouldn't have ended in the fairly high note that it did end on. Again, this is my reaction to the idea of "bringing back" B5. I don't want to see B5 milked to death like Star Trek or Star Wars. There is a quote from a role-playing web board that puts it well:
"F*** Lucas with a pine cone, he managed to think up new movies so stupid he actually leeched the enjoyment out of the rest of the movies... Like a black hole of plot development."
I don't want to see the enjoyment leeched out of B5 the same way. I'm not saying B5 was bad. It was great. But let it go. Too many science fiction fans just can't do that.
The theme of stealthy infiltration by an enemy who wears the face of a friend was popular in the 1950s (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Invaders From Mars, et al), and was clearly a metaphor for Communist subversion. How hard can it be to figure out that the same theme would resonate in a country that just created a Department of Homeland Security?
"Cloning", indeed.
Did you know the DVDs are available from A&E?
So far, it does seem to be true. Do a quick Google search for Battlestar Galactica and you'll find a number of websites which have been following the revival of the series for several years. I don't see many positive (or even hopeful) comments there.
I just hope that once the new show bombs, someone interviews Richard Hatch. He put his heart into reviving the show and the Sci-Fi Channel pulled the rug right out from beneath his feet. He deserves to have the chance to say: "...And people thought the *old* show was bad. HA-Ha"!!"
I will quote you only one of many examples:
"Fellowship of the Ring"; Gandalf falls to his "death" into the the crevass in at the bridge at Kazak-Dum (spelling?) while being pursued by the beastly Balrog. Later he returns in a somewhat altered form to help his friends defeat the forces of Darkness.
"Babylon 5"; Sheridan leaps/falls to his "death" into the crevass on the Shadow's home planet of Zaha'Dum while being pursued by the beastly Shadows. Later, he returns in a somewhat altered form to help his friends defeat the forces of Darkness (The Shadows).
Ok. Here's another:
"LOTR"; The last time the forces of Light and Dark battled in LOTR was thousands of years ago when Light won out in a final, pitched battle where all was but lost except for the efforts of one valiant warrior who then goes on to lead men as King.
"B5"; The last time the forces of Light and Dark battled in B5 was thousands of years ago when Light won out in a final, pitched battle except for the efforts of one valiant warrior (Sinclair on Babylon 4) who then goes on to lead men as King (Valen).
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