Battlestar Galactica - How it should have been...

[Rich46yo]

Had the series been made today no doubt there would have been many more habitable planets and moons, and many more non habitable. The Galaxy was describe by Tigh as a "pretty barren place" but since that episode, and especially since the shooting of the series ended, its been shown the galaxy is anything but barren. Its pretty accepted by scientists that future generations will find the Galaxy chock full of habitable planets, probably in the millions, and many, many billions of planets and moons as well. Hell the Milky Way, a rather small Galaxy, has 200 Billion stars alone.

There so many ways Blood and Chrome could have gone it really breaks my heart they didnt run with it.

If your a BSG fan and havnt seen the movie "The Plan" you really should. It does fill some holes and explain the cylons a little better. It has one of my favorite qoutes in it when a #6 model is listening to Cavil bemoan about how all the other cylons on the ship keep letting him down cause they keep getting involved with humans emotionally. She tells him drunkenly "you can't declare war on love".

I love that series. Every minute of it. http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

[whels]

you have to remember guys that the fleet jumped a couple or more times without plotting. so they had no idea where they would end up or how far.

[Rich46yo]

you have to remember guys that the fleet jumped a couple or more times without plotting. so they had no idea where they would end up or how far.

I only remember the Pegasus jumping blind and that only once in "Razor" when the Cylons were attacking. Even in the last episode the Galactica didnt jump blind to the new Earth cause Star Buck did enter coordinates before jumping, the one she got from Herra, the one from the song her father had her play as a child.

[FLOOB]

you have to remember guys that the fleet jumped a couple or more times without plotting. so they had no idea where they would end up or how far.

I'm sure you're refering to the writing. That series ended horribly. The casting wasn't great either, casting women to play male characters never turns out well. There were so many things wrong with that series, yet it was so very, very watchable. I'm talking about the new BSG of course.

[Arlo]

The casting wasn't great either, casting women to play male characters never turns out well.

 

The roll of Starbuck was rocked by Katee Sackhoff. Exemplary.



And this is from a guy who was very skeptical until 5 minutes into her portrayal.

Bias .... not always a good thing. 

[BoilerDown]

Yeah, you can criticize a lot of stuff, but the re-imagined Starbuck was a great character and is not one of them.  If you seriously think that, then I think you haven't actually even watched five minutes of the show and you have no credibility with me.

Beyond reproach.

[caldera]

I liked the series but hated Starbuck.  She acted like a total A-hole.  And Dirk Benedict had better hair.   

[Arlo]

I liked the series but hated Starbuck.  She acted like a total A-hole.  And Dirk Benedict had better hair.  

Yeah. Wasn't she good?  Had that bad-arse 'jet' fighter pilot persona down. Didn't even take dung from the X.O.

[Rich46yo]

I never found the original series even watchable.

Tella the truth I never even watched the reimaged BSG until about a year ago. Working shift there is always a lot of shows I miss. I got so caught up in BSG I watched the entire series in like 2 weeks after that. I thought Starbuck rocked, even if she was "crazy as a Latrine rat".

Theres a few webisodes floating around. One is "Face of the enemy" http://www.hulu.com/watch/48347 .

The story really had more legs. Another series that broke my heart was "Serenity".

[Arlo]

The story really had more legs. Another series that broke my heart was "Serenity".

Firefly. 

[Muzzy]

Firefly. 

The Serenity appears in the BSG pilot.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Imo BSG was exactly how BSG should have been. Brilliant.

At first I hated the new Baltar but along the episodes I grew fond of his sleezy womenizing antics and was actually waiting to see what sort of trouble he managed to get to after a few episodes.

[Arlo]

The Serenity appears in the BSG pilot.

Why yes it does.

(First generation Browncoat here. And proud of it. )

[FLOOB]

She was obviously playing the role of a male character. Oh lets get an ugly actress, give her a butch haircut and throw in some scenes of her kissing dudes and maybe nobody will notice. They did the same thing with the female admiral, although not ugly they had to make her a lezbo because they painted themselves in a corner with the honey trap being number six. But both starbuck and the admiral had flaming male personalities. They did it because they thought that it would be a neato twist on the original story. And boy did it fail because like the rest of the series they didn't think it through, and or they thought that the viewer would be too dumb to care.

My favorite line from the whole series. "You're a bad salesman."

[Arlo]

She was obviously playing the role of a male character. Oh lets get an ugly actress, give her a butch haircut and throw in some scenes of her kissing dudes and maybe nobody will notice. They did the same thing with the female admiral, although not ugly they had to make her a lezbo because they painted themselves in a corner with the honey trap being number six. But both starbuck and the admiral had flaming male personalities. They did it because they thought that it would be a neato twist on the original story. And boy did it fail because like the rest of the series they didn't think it through, and or they thought that the viewer would be too dumb to care.