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.

[Question_Assumptions]

Actually otaku means diehard fan, but not necessarily a diehard anime fans. There are otaku theater fans, otaku soap opera fans. You get the idea.

Trust me, I know what an otaku is. But among American anime fans, it means a diehard anime fan. It has a much more narrow meaning.

Outlaw Star is about a space cowboy series, about two guys (Gene and Jim) starting a new business, who have a run in with some space pirates and end up with a stolen ship, on a treasure hunt and they meet some interesting characters along the way.

Outlaw Star is lot like Cowboy Bebop, but not as serious and with a touch of Slayers magic. It is a notch below Cowboy Bebop, but still very good.

The plot sounds interesting but the tone doesn't. Slayers was entertaining for a few episodes but got old for me very quickly. But I'll keep your recommendation in mind if I have a chance to watch it.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Don't worry, you'll probably like it, the only Slayers magic I was talking about deals with the origins of Gene's caster gun.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Also the only episode in Outlaw Star I don’t really care for, dealt with the mind control ‘cactus’ alien. The rest of the episodes range from great to okay.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Also the only episode in Outlaw Star I don’t really care for, dealt with the mind CONTROLING ‘cactus’ alien. The rest of the episodes range from great to okay.

[bonesmccoy]

Have you ever noticed that Baltar dies in one version of the movie and in another version is spared?

Has anyone ever compiled a list of Baltar death scenes?

That would be Fracking hilarious.

[bonesmccoy]

boy that list brings back great memories from several yahrnes ago!

[Victoria_R]

You've read that draft script for the remake, haven't you? The one that has Baltar having sex with anything that looks female. (Some of the new Cylons are...uh... fully functional "females".)

[Paul C. Jesup]

You've read that draft script for the remake, haven't you? The one that has Baltar having sex with anything that looks female. (Some of the new Cylons are...uh... fully functional "females".)

Oh Lord, Sexaroid Cylons... I feel sick. The Battlestar Galactica forums must be going ballistic over this. And with Baltar having such an active 'night life' combined with Starbuck being female in the remake, well... I don't want to go there... But I am SURE Sci-Fi will.

You might want to post this news to the www.watchfarscape.com forum, I am sure that they will get a good laugh out of this, though I won't.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Well, I had almost removed them both from my memory. :)

[Don W]

My personal fave in Logan's run (and many other sci-fi movies e.g. American Werewolf in London) is Jenny Agutter. WHAT a babe! She was pretty good in the Red Dwarf episode where Kryten meets his designer, for that matter.

I'm also surprised that nobody has mentioned "Dark Star" yet. Kewl movie.

[jaz.357]

How about that babe(s) from Buck Rogers movie/TV show?

[Don W]

Erin ? was nice, but Jenny Agutter is IT!

[Don W]

Ectually, Marving was the manically depressed (his own description) robot.

[AFreeBird]

Hmm, since Ford is making the car, and from the looks of the front end, it might be a stretched out "Thunderbird".

[Cloud William]

Oh Lord, Sexaroid Cylons... I feel sick. The Battlestar Galactica forums must be going ballistic over this.

Time to bring this thread back for an update. In this version of Galactica, it seems that the Cylons were created by the humans, but later turned against their creators (Terminator ripoff!).

Some Cylons are obviously cybernetic in nature, probably for infiltration purposes (more Terminator pilferage). You'd think that SciFi could at least choose a character name that's not such an obvious knock-off of the Star Trek Borg Babe. Evidently not; here's a publicity pic of "Number 6":

"Number 6"
"Seven of Nine"

Hmm, I think I see where they may be going with this...

[Calvin Locke]

Your[sic] right, why?

My pet peeve right now with SciFi is that ever since they hired a couple of Clintonistas, it's been pretty much down hill.

I actually like Tremors, but it took a while. It was easier to get in to than Farscape, which I finally started watching the
year before they cancelled it...and then they screwed up the reruns of it too.

I heard a TV Guide editor say that Olmos' BSG [insert own derogatory term] since they actually take it seriously.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Time to bring this thread back for an update. In this version of Galactica, it seems that the Cylons were created by the humans, but later turned against their creators (Terminator ripoff!).

That really pisses me off because one of my favorite things about the original Galactica was that the Cylons were created by a race of lizard people who went extinict. And that the humans in the series were truly innocent when it came to their war with the cylons, they did not create this problem, they were just stuck with it.

And Sci-fi even screwed this up.

[Redcloak]

Terminator ripoff...

Not Terminator so much as Bladerunner. Their Cylons sound like Replicants.

...or Algore.

[Preech1]

My favorite line in the series was when a Cylon was explaining how his ship had crash landed..."We were reading the manual when the ground came up and hit us..." You see, a cylon could never do wrong, any mistakes were someone else's fault...hey, that sounds like liberal thinking...hmmm...

[DragonflyX]

SAAB Rocked. And Shane was a babe. Baa Baa Blacksheep was some of the worst dreck ever shown on TV.