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Post by The SITH OverLORD on Feb 3, 2005 22:43:52 GMT 8
Yo Hisham, I've noticed your Signature Image - is there a NEW Battle Star Galactica TV Series in the making or already showing in the US?
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Post by Hisham on Feb 3, 2005 23:37:41 GMT 8
Yo Hisham, I've noticed your Signature Image - is there a NEW Battle Star Galactica TV Series in the making or already showing in the US? There is a new BSG series out in our spacetime continuum. It's made by former Trek producer & writer Ron Moore. It's not a sequel, nor a prequel... it's a remake, an alternate universe so to speak. There are 13 episodes. Used to be shown on Sky One in the UK, now it's over. Now showing on Sci-Fi channel in the US to rave review and high ratings. My sister who lives in Ohio is nuts about the show. I've seen all but one episode ( Litmus), and I sincerely believe that the show is one of the best written science fiction TV series on the air today. Points of interest: - Starbuck & Boomer are now female characters.
- "Apollo", "Starbuck" and such are now pilot callsigns instead of proper names.
- The "Lords of Kobol" from the original series are now the Greek Pantheon.
- Commander Adama doesn't believe that Earth exists, but keeps up the charade to give the human survivors hope, but I suspect next season he will change his mind after discoveing the planet Kobol in the season finale.
- Apart from regular robotic Cylons, there are human-like Cylon infiltrators, including one of the faces in my sig banner below.
- The last 10 seconds of the last episode is one of the BEST season finale ever (right up there with Best of Both Worlds, IMHO), so if you plan to watch this series, please don't go looking about for spoilers online. Believe me, you'll be sorry.
I used to be one of the ones condemning this show when it came up, but Ron Moore's new concept has made me change my mind. Here's to more episodes of BSG in the coming months and years.
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Post by Plo Strax-Avix on Feb 4, 2005 10:00:22 GMT 8
I've watched the entire mini series and have written a short review about it but can't seem to find the review anywhere now...
Have also acquired 8 episodes of the new series currently showing on Sci Fi channel but have yet to watch any...maybe I will during the CNY holidays...
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Post by fishyahoo on Feb 4, 2005 17:28:42 GMT 8
I thought the mini-series started off pretty well, eventhough missed out on seeing any whole space armade battles, other than the skirmish involving the Galactica and Cylon cruisers at the end. There's a much stronger emphasis on drama in this series, especially how people would cope considering most of your kind has been eliminated overnight. Recall in the original series, the first thing the Galactica does after fleeing the known systems is visit a casino planet
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Post by TheEdge on Feb 12, 2005 0:35:57 GMT 8
where do i start ? i know they remade into a miniseries first before the series. so i gotta watch the miniseries then ?
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Post by icheekaze on Feb 12, 2005 2:07:41 GMT 8
I got my hands on a copy of a movie called Battlestar Galactica. Looking at the cover, it's definitely based on the original series. I'm guessing it's the pilot or something? Or did they make a separate TV movie on it?
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Post by The SITH OverLORD on Feb 12, 2005 5:38:51 GMT 8
I got my hands on a copy of a movie called Battlestar Galactica. Looking at the cover, it's definitely based on the original series. I'm guessing it's the pilot or something? Or did they make a separate TV movie on it? icheekaze please go ahead and post a picture of this VCD/Video Cassette picture of the BSG you have in hand. This way we will be able to have a better picture of what you're saying.
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Post by Plo Strax-Avix on Feb 12, 2005 10:31:16 GMT 8
Is it like this one?
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Post by The SITH OverLORD on Feb 12, 2005 10:37:21 GMT 8
Oh man, SaberMaster looking at that 1979 Vintage Battle Star Galactica cover sure brings back a nice sense of nostalgia like looking at this official movie poster below, ;D
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Post by icheekaze on Feb 14, 2005 7:49:05 GMT 8
Yeah, it's the same as the one SaberMaster posted
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