New Battlestar Galactica Premieres Monday

An anonymous reader writes "In several news articles, 'Battlestar Galactica' returns in a new four hour mini-series on the Sci-Fi channel this Monday. However, there has been fan furor over some changes to the story. Aluminum Cylon enemies look more like humans, complete with feelings, including one with rabid sexual desires, and the quest is not for a mythical Earth, as it no longer exists. More information at the BattlestarGalactica.com website, and the Sci-Fi channel."

Re:"Brains! Brains!"

[schon]

How did they reanimate the corpse of Lorne Greene for this new series?

Simple - when they started filming, he rolled over in his grave - they then just dug him up and put him in costume. :o)

Don't worry...

[AKAImBatman]

...half way through the season they'll figure out that they're loosing ratings and have the characters suddenly stumble upon evidence of the Xinidi^H^H^H^H^H^H Earth and begin a quest to find it. Then they'll destroy some of the deepest elements of the show by using them in throw-away lines.

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say

[Idimmu Xul]

'Battlestar Galactica' returns in a new four hour mini-series on the Sci-Fi channel this Monday. However, there has been fan furor over some changes to the story. Aluminum Cylon enemies look more like humans, complete with feelings, including one with rabid sexual desires, and the quest is not for a mythical Earth, as it no longer exists.

WHY FUCKING BOTHER?

Re:Bad omens

[Dutchmaan]

..but all my business man charts saids that nerds like sex and science fiction!

Oh well... at least we already got paid.

All this furor over the desecration of...

[Infonaut]

Battlestar Galactica?

I could understand if we were talking about Shazam, or Land of the Lost or some other really important show from that era. ;-)

But Battlestar Galactica?

I'm not surprised Ed said that...

[Idimmu Xul]

From there, things get different. Starbuck, the hotshot fighter pilot played by Dirk Benedict in the original, is now a woman played by Katee Sackhoff

They can't just make Starbuck a woman :cry:

The show appears to be darker, sexier and a lot less escapist than the original.

Oh, that's ok then, as long as we get to see tits being squashed together in crappy lycra suits!

The theme tune

[mccalli]

But does it have God's perfect theme tune, which is what the original was? A superb piece of music, as stirring in Battlestar Galactica as it was in Revenge of the Mutant Camels...

Cheers,
Ian

Re:Too many humanoid aliens

[agentZ]

Maybe you should try "The Simple Life" on FOX. I hear it has characters you can't empathise with.

Hrmm, have they tried advertising this?

[Bluetick]

Is it just me, or is Sci-Fi really letting this slip under the radar. I've been watching the Sci-Fi channel, and really haven't noticed any promotion of this at all. Maybe they should try some flashy campaign with lots of explosions, cg graphics, hot chicks, and some ridiculous lines repeated over and over. But I don't know, I just don't see this thing panning out with this little promotion. Who knows, it could be a sleeper hit.

GALACTICA 90210

[Dynamic Ranger]

or MELROSE SPACE

Wired article

[PIPBoy3000]

Wired has an article [wired.com] on it as well.

Personally, I'll give it a chance. When I was a kid, there was an early 2-hour episode and I pestered my parents to leave the pizza place so I could make it back in time. We returned to find the rug burning in front of our fireplace. Our parents ran into the kitchen to fill pots and pour it on the fire. Us kids ran into the t.v. room to huddle under the smoke and watch our show.

I now refer to the tale as the time Battlestar Galactica saved our house.

Obligatory Family Reference:

[dark_panda]

Scene: Community cable access TV show. Portly 30-something, probably single, hosts:

"That's all for this week on KISS Forum. Stay tuned for Battlestar Galactica Forum."

Quickly puts on Cylon helmet

"WELCOME TO BATTLESTAR GALACTICA FORUM."

J

Re:I'm not surprised Ed said that...

[Anonymous Coward]

Otherwise there'd be no reason to keep the name "Starbuck".

Unless she REALLY likes coffee.

Re:I'm not surprised Ed said that...

[Thud457]

"Oh, that's ok then, as long as we get to see tits being squashed together in crappy lycra suits!"

Jesus H Christ on a bicycle and his black bastard brother Bart! Why didn't they do it right then and remake "Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century"?!!! Goddamn that was every 14-year-old's dream!! mmmmmmmmm.... Erin Grey.... And Twiki & Dr Theopolis for the robosexuals out there.

Honestly, I will never be able to fathom the depths of stupidity of Hollywood. And they think their consumers are dumb!!!

Re:Bad omens

[suss]

..but all my business man charts saids that nerds like sex and science fiction!

Rick Berman, is that you?

Oh well... at least we already got paid.

Must be.

Seems faithful to me

[bluethundr]

So, let me get this striaght. Starbuck... a girl. Boomer...also a girl. Cylon warriors...sexpot girls? So what elements from the original show did they keep? Vipers. We have Vipers. If you took the Vipers out of Battlestar Girlactica you'd might as well call this series "Ernest Goes To Outer Space".

Re:It'll fail

[corbettw]

It'll fail after a few seasons of low ratings.

Not unlike its predecessor.

Next up Sci-Fi is going to redo Star Wars

[Weaselmancer]

But Luke will be a disadvantaged inner-city kid, struggling to cope with life as an orphan. And the robots will be played by people. Alderaan won't be destroyed either (too non-pc after 9/11). The Death Star will just orbit the planet and drop leaflets on them.

But all the character's names will be the same, so we can still call it Star Wars. Right?

Weaselmancer

Re:Bad omens

[Mosasaurus_Maximus]

Cylon enemies look more like humans, complete with feelings, including one with rabid sexual desires
Kinda gives a whole new meaning to "By Your Command"...

Re:Thanks for the Info!

[Mr. McGibby]

I am not a very religous kind of guy... So, there was little impetus for me to research that out farther then what I wrote above...

It's okay. Nobody else around here does any research either.

Your mama's a whore. But since I'm not into whores very much, I didn't do any research to back that up.

mormon influence...

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder if the new BSG will portray more of the mormon influence, such as the special holy underwear? That would make the show considerably less sexy I think. But they could do wonderful things based on the temple endowment ceremony since that already includes nudity! Just replace that old lady in the cubicle with some fly young slimmie to drip the magic oil on the up-and-coming fighter pilots!

Re:Little? Cylon? Different?

[Mr. Slippery]

Except that in Voyager the half Klingon girl (Torres?) gets taken to Klingon hell on the Barge of the Dead, piloted by the first Klingon, who has the cranial mountain range.

And the clone of Kahles (sp?) in one DS9 ep, and the Klingons in ST:E, have the brow ridges. Only the TOS ones don't.

And since we see some of the same Klingon characters from TOS in a few DS9 eps, the "different races" theory sometimes advanced, doesn't fly.

The answer: obviously a strange trend for body modification during the TOS era, which Klingons later disavowed the way I will disavow ever owning a pair of parachute pants.

(Ok. I'm going to repeat to my "it's just a show, I really should relax.")

Battlestar Gallactica purests

[sjonke]

Just don't f*ck with dagget!

Re:The beginning of the end

[gfxguy]

Nice... I mean, she is already a robot, right? That's really the only explanation...

Re:Anybody watch SciFi Previews?

[Anonymous Coward]

Moral of the story: Automating killing machines with just enough intelligence to distinguish between a lifeform and a rock and giving them power supplies that last for hundreds of thousands of years is a really, really, monumentally stupid idea.

It's phrases like these that I read slashdot for. :)