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« Reply #60 on: October 25, 2006, 11:20:26 AM »
I heard that Ron Moore was really looking forward to having the set space back, dunno about costs.

I sure hope Apollo gutted the Pegasus of everything valuable before going to New Caprica.  The Pegasus represented huge manufacturing capability, had a large store of spare parts, lots of weaponry, etc.  Too bad they couldn't have transferred flags to it instead.
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« Reply #61 on: October 25, 2006, 11:35:36 AM »
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I heard that Ron Moore was really looking forward to having the set space back, dunno about costs.

I sure hope Apollo gutted the Pegasus of everything valuable before going to New Caprica.  The Pegasus represented huge manufacturing capability, had a large store of spare parts, lots of weaponry, etc.  Too bad they couldn't have transferred flags to it instead.

We'd be calling the show BSP then. ;)
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« Reply #62 on: October 25, 2006, 12:01:26 PM »
At least it wasn't the Battlestar Unicorn.  

Here are some story milestones/predictions:
* Fleet picks up a refugee ship that has turned cannibal.
* Count Iblis - An alien character from the first series, perhaps not alien this time but instead a different AI from the Cylon era)
* Robotic Cylon attack dogs are used (which ends up being the mechanism to get Boxey his pet when they capture and reprogram/convert one)
* Baltar gets his own personal troop carrier (but converted to a flying pleasure palace)
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« Reply #63 on: October 25, 2006, 03:32:08 PM »
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At least it wasn't the Battlestar Unicorn.  

Here are some story milestones/predictions:
* Fleet picks up a refugee ship that has turned cannibal.


REAVERS! RUN!
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« Reply #64 on: October 25, 2006, 03:48:34 PM »
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Good science fiction is always about the human condition, and usually a subset of drama.  SciFi isn't about space ships, it's about finding a level of metaphor to use to talk about humanity that will disarm the viewer from their usual preconceived notions.  

The best stuff revolves around situations that the reader/viewer could empathize with.



Quite true!

One of the most dynamic and involving Sci-Fi shows for me has always been Firefox, the show they made the movie Serenity from.  Too bad the original series was never shown in order, in its entirety.  It was shown on Friday nights by Fox, and pre-empted by baseball games.

Lots of subplots and humor, often revolving around government control and manipulation of the masses.

Wish Sci-Fi channel would grab it and run with it like they have with BSG!
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« Reply #65 on: October 25, 2006, 05:54:35 PM »
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Only if sufficient bandwidth is used to encode the HD feed. With insufficient bandwidth you can make a HD feed look just as crappy on a computer as videos on Youtube.

That's the problem.. the 350mb versions may be HD rips but they're not HD quality.

I've heard rumours of 700mb versions that supposedly are HD quality.


Either way when veiwing 41 minute show in DIVX AVI format 300mb is normal i guess.  700mb is overkill as you wouldn't notice a difference on a computer monitor let alone a TV using the S-Video out on your card.  

Decent quality is achieved with a file  of around half that.  If you convert it to MPG4 for DVD the size nearly doubles so I think I know where you are getting at but I'm not talking about mpegs.
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« Reply #66 on: October 25, 2006, 06:53:18 PM »
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I simply don't like the world they are creating.
Anything not done in it's original German is unacceptable to Lazs.
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« Reply #67 on: October 26, 2006, 01:10:18 AM »
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I heard getting rid of Pegasus was done due to costs have having two battlestar sets. So it was an external production issue, and not just a story driven decision.

Overall, BSG was the series I looked forward to seeing the most. It's now 2nd behind Heroes for me.



Did the Pegasus ever make a return in the original series after its "fate unkown" encounter with the Basestars?


And why is Firefly not rerun on SciFi? I saw the movie but never an episode.
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« Reply #68 on: October 26, 2006, 01:20:38 AM »
Firefly is running back to back with BSG Sunday nights on UniversalHD.
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« Reply #69 on: October 26, 2006, 01:54:38 AM »
They do firefly reruns on scifi.  They occasionally have marathons, too.  

You could just buy the DVD's... they're worth it.  :)
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« Reply #70 on: October 26, 2006, 02:49:27 AM »
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They do firefly reruns on scifi.  They occasionally have marathons, too.  

You could just buy the DVD's... they're worth it.  :)


Good point.:D
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« Reply #71 on: October 26, 2006, 10:22:19 AM »
I'm pretty sure the original series Pegasus went bye bye. Dunno for sure, I don't really watch the reruns of the old series and I don't remember what happened when I watched it as a kid.
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« Reply #72 on: October 26, 2006, 11:34:21 AM »
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I'm pretty sure the original series Pegasus went bye bye. Dunno for sure, I don't really watch the reruns of the old series and I don't remember what happened when I watched it as a kid.


Yup... Lloyd Bridges was too aggressive and took it in too close to a Base Star... Kablooie.
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« Reply #73 on: October 26, 2006, 11:54:28 AM »
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Yup... Lloyd Bridges was too aggressive and took it in too close to a Base Star... Kablooie.
Yup. What he said.
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« Reply #74 on: October 26, 2006, 02:41:30 PM »
guess I'm gonna have to start watching this show, sounds pretty danged good
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