New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series?

New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series? 1057

Posted by Cliff on Thursday December 11, 2003 @04:52PM from the by-your-command dept.

rwxJava asks: "Ok, so it finally aired! IMHO it was pretty good. The special effects were great (no major laws of physics were broken except maybe FTL travel), the characters, while drastically different from the original, were believable! After about an hour or so, I stopped trying to compare the mini-series with the original. My only complaint has to be the amount of commercials that Scf-Fi put in. I was able to put up a Christmas Tree during one commercial break. Guess the network needs to cash in on such a hyped up event! By the end, I was left wanting more! Anyone else think it is worthy of conversion to a series?" Now that you've have had a time to watch the entire 4-hour epic (does 4 hours really make a "mini-series"?), do you think your earlier comments were on target?

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FLT (Score:1, Funny)

by n00bieriffic ( 732021 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @04:54PM (#7693235) Homepage

Well since we can now freeze light I can walk faster than it.

Chistmas tree? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @04:56PM (#7693257)

I was able to put up a Christmas Tree during one commercial break.

They were waiting for you to finish, stupid!

Problems... (Score:5, Funny)

by phraktyl ( 92649 ) * writes: <wyatt@dra g g oo.com> on Thursday December 11, 2003 @04:56PM (#7693267) Homepage Journal

I saw a few scenes in the first half that didn't involve people having sex. I thought those were extraneous, and could have been removed...

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:5, Funny)

by Have Blue ( 616 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @04:56PM (#7693270) Homepage

open your mind to the possiblity of a "re-imagining" of the Battlestar Galactica concept, then I think you're in for a pleasant surprise

Or if, as with me, you know fuck all about the original series and are approaching this show with a blank slate :)

Not bad, but one change I'd like to see... (Score:4, Funny)

by koreth ( 409849 ) * writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @05:00PM (#7693328)

Next week on Battlestar Galactica: Commander Adama finally gets a full night's sleep! Adama like you've never seen him before -- he's wide awake and ready for action!

Boxey?!? Why, dear god? WHY??? (Score:4, Funny)

by anactofgod ( 68756 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @05:04PM (#7693390)

The mini-series is worthy of a show, with plenty of potential plot lines and hooks to follow and explore.

I only hope that the "Boxey thread" will end quickly, with that character's death at the hands of the Cylons in the first 5 minutes of the first show of the series.

Why do sci fi show creators feel compelled to include the cute kid character in their space operas? Won't they ever learn that we HATE these characters?

---anactofgod---

Storage Tubes (Score:2, Funny)

by Bob Munck ( 238707 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @05:05PM (#7693418) Homepage

Haven't seen it yet -- both shows are sitting on my TiVo HD -- but if it doesn't have those classy Tektronix storage tube displays, it's a horrible waste and an insult to the entire Ponderosa and the A Team. You know, those green displays where you can actually see the beam writing the picture like an electronic Etch-a-Sketch?
We actually built a simulation of an Etch-a-Sketch using an ARDS storage tube display. That's what passed for advanced graphics at Brown in 1967.

Re:No major laws of physics broken EXCEPT (Score:4, Funny)

by kinnell ( 607819 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @05:07PM (#7693438)

2) Continual stream of stars zoom past windows to convey forward momentum (as opposed to say, rotation or banking).
When that happens, I just imagine the action is taking place in another universe in which the characters are several light years tall.

Re:Movie Industry Propaganda Against P2P (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @05:23PM (#7693681)

Uh, that was the villain in Terminator the whole time. What did you think Skynet was?

Re:GET ME SOME BULLETS!!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by axmonkey ( 533393 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @05:28PM (#7693752)

Remember Cylons were made of chrome, the lasers would have just been reflected! Mass driver cannons are just the thing for those mirrored punks!

Just one problem... (Score:2, Funny)

by Cajun Hell ( 725246 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @05:31PM (#7693802) Homepage Journal

They needed "40 seconds" to evacuate some compartments. What the frack is that supposed to mean? How many microns is that?

Re:No major laws of physics broken EXCEPT (Score:5, Funny)

by TheMonkeyDepartment ( 413269 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @05:34PM (#7693852)

Oh yeah and you forgot:

4) The soundtrack. Are we really to believe that there would be an orchestra playing music in outer space? Like it is some sort of (*snort snort*) magical orchestra?

Re:What about "why do the cylons want to kill us"? (Score:5, Funny)

by switcha ( 551514 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @06:08PM (#7694349)

Because we broke our promise of "trustworthy computing" for the last time, goddammit!

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:4, Funny)

by DaveOf9thKey ( 599178 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @06:11PM (#7694379) Homepage Journal

Or perhaps Cylons confuse sexual release with true emotion and feeling.
Great. Now my ex-girlfriend probably thinks I'm a Cylon...

Re:My theory... (Score:5, Funny)

by eaolson ( 153849 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @06:16PM (#7694443)

12 colonies, one infiltration model per colony.
Or maybe Cylons are just cheaper if you buy them by the dozen.

Re:What about "why do the cylons want to kill us"? (Score:3, Funny)

by Jason Earl ( 1894 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @06:40PM (#7694779) Homepage Journal

People are used to the idea of computers being evil. After all, most of them use Windows.

Re:Cylon Motivation???? (Score:2, Funny)

by Darth Troll ( 576144 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @06:43PM (#7694831)

Maybe the Cylons heard from reliable sources that the colonists were trying to obtain "yellow cake" from Nigeria.

Re:What about "why do the cylons want to kill us"? (Score:3, Funny)

by kfg ( 145172 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @07:01PM (#7695058)

Because they are boogeymen and that's what boogeymen do. I mean geez, get with it, every two year old knows that.

KFG

Balter and the perfect girlfriend. (Score:2, Funny)

by Kwasabi ( 590013 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @07:15PM (#7695238) Homepage

So... Anyone notice Dr. Gauis' last name was Balter.... as in Count Balter... or am I stating th obvious. The one thing to point out is that Balter has the perfrct girlfriend.... She's hot, sexy, now she's ultra-low maintenence... Sex anytime and ANYWHERE... don't have to buy her things...the list goes on... BUT... she's got to have a remote control... With an on/off button and a MUTE for when the ball game's on.... Whaddayathink?

I too came to the show fresh (Score:5, Funny)

by garrulous ( 653996 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @07:21PM (#7695310)

And I'm confused. The humans are supposed to be descendants of the Lords of COBOL correct? Does that mean they are dinosaurs?

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:3, Funny)

by Gaewyn L Knight ( 16566 ) writes: <vaewyn@nOspam.wwwrogue.com> on Thursday December 11, 2003 @07:35PM (#7695468) Homepage Journal

Nonono... that's Fox... ohh wait... yeah.. SciFi also

D'oh! :P

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:5, Funny)

by Moofie ( 22272 ) writes: <lee AT ringofsaturn DOT com> on Thursday December 11, 2003 @08:31PM (#7696005) Homepage

Killed him with a flashlight...and left a little origami chicken on his corpse.

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:4, Funny)

by Guppy06 ( 410832 ) writes: on Thursday December 11, 2003 @09:28PM (#7696557)

"Adama is now a badass. He killed a Cylon with a fickin' FLASHLIGHT!"

I sure hope the Cylon was covered by Mutual of Omaha...

Re:What about "why do the cylons want to kill us"? (Score:2, Funny)

by cwilson ( 45570 ) writes: on Friday December 12, 2003 @03:14AM (#7698613)

"commanded not to make a machine in the image of Man's mind"

Huh? Did Dune's Butlerian Jihad already happen, and I missed it? Shoot...

Better than "Enterprise" (Score:2, Funny)

by toddhisattva ( 127032 ) writes: on Friday December 12, 2003 @06:20AM (#7699114) Homepage

This "Battlestar Galactica" is much better than "Enterprise" ...
And so was the 1970's "Battlestar Galactica!!"

Re:Glad I didn't watch (Score:2, Funny)

by letxa2000 ( 215841 ) writes: on Friday December 12, 2003 @10:52AM (#7700468)

Go ahead, bite the bullet and watch it. Hopefully you'll be pleasantly surprised like I was.
Ok, you convinced me. I'll watch it Sunday. But if it ruins Battlestar for me for the rest of my life I hold you responsible. :)

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:3, Funny)

by Lobsang ( 255003 ) writes: on Friday December 12, 2003 @10:21PM (#7708038) Homepage

The "Model 5" hallucination to some degree is a rip off of John Crichtons "Scorpy" implant on Farscape. BTW, quit calling EVERYTHING a chip.

You mean "Model 6" hallucination? Regardless of the name you give to that, I want one implanted in my brain right now.

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New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series?

FLT (Score:1, Funny)

Chistmas tree? (Score:5, Funny)

Problems... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:5, Funny)

Not bad, but one change I'd like to see... (Score:4, Funny)

Boxey?!? Why, dear god? WHY??? (Score:4, Funny)

Storage Tubes (Score:2, Funny)

Re:No major laws of physics broken EXCEPT (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Movie Industry Propaganda Against P2P (Score:1, Funny)

Re:GET ME SOME BULLETS!!!! (Score:3, Funny)

Just one problem... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:No major laws of physics broken EXCEPT (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What about "why do the cylons want to kill us"? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:4, Funny)

Re:My theory... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What about "why do the cylons want to kill us"? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Cylon Motivation???? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:What about "why do the cylons want to kill us"? (Score:3, Funny)

Balter and the perfect girlfriend. (Score:2, Funny)

I too came to the show fresh (Score:5, Funny)

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:3, Funny)

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:5, Funny)

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:4, Funny)

Re:What about "why do the cylons want to kill us"? (Score:2, Funny)

Better than "Enterprise" (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Glad I didn't watch (Score:2, Funny)

Re:A quick and dirty review (Score:3, Funny)

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