Originally posted by Swoop
Hold on a second here
Boomer seems to have turned into some Korean chick.
This is just wrong.
Yeah, in the old show Boomer was the Shizzle in the Galactizzle. But worse than turning Boomer in to a Korean Girl, they seem to have wiped out all Black men. Perhaps the colony of Africon was destroyed in the first Cylon war or some ****, but that's the one of only two things I didn't like about the show.
The other thing being everyone screwing. Who gives a ****, blow up some more stuff man. But that's just me.
I went into this expecting to hate it, but I thought it totaly kicked ass. While the original played up that hokey "our past is their past" stuff, this one plays more to the "our present is their present" and it works pretty well. Now I don't have to figure out which is longer, I micron, a Centon, or a secton.
Things I liked:
Starbuck. I thought this worked pretty well. By adding a Uterus, they didn't feel they had to change much else of the charactor. She's pretty much the same as the Dirk Benedict Charactor, a wise bellybutton who plays cards and smokes cigars who'se unorthodox behaviour is more than made up for in the cockpit. All the other Charactors were revamped in major ways: Tigh is an alcoholic, Apollo actually has balls, Adama doesn't go around quoting the damned "book of the word" all the time, Boomer isn't just a Korean Girl, she's also a Rook, and flys the space going E2C Hawkweye (more on that later) ect. So I liked the chicka starbuck.
The "look and feel." That whole "this arcaic ship was created 40 years ago blah blah blah" reminded me of the USS Midway during Desert Storm. As has been mentioned by others, I too think they did a good job of blending contemperary ideas with the sci-fi backdrop. It might be cheezy, but I love the radios, and the "quiet" of space.
There are Enlisted Charactors. Its downright un-American to have a ship crewed by nothing but officers. I'm glad that the deck crew looks like they are going to have a central role in this, and not just be tossed in to die whenever the script calls for mass casualties (although as evidenced in the first episode, they'll still be used as such... sweet).
The Raptor. It's nice to have something beside Vipers in a space battle. Having an SWAC to coordinate the space battles makes sense and adds additional flavor to the same stock footage of Vipers fighting Cylons. In the old show we would always point out when someone took a "Zak Hit" (stock footage from the Pilot, where Rick Springfield gets hit in the top engine) Hopefully with additional ships (I'm holding out that they have Attack ships too, but I don't know that) and computer animation, hopefully the footage will stay fresh a bit longer.
The conflict between the military and civilian authority. Nice, no more "Warrior King" stuff. That should be interesting as well.
I liked it, and wish I could watch tonight, but I have a final that runs until 9:30
I'll record it.
-Sik
