SciFi Channel To Air A New Galactica Series

EvilBuu writes "The Sci-Fi Channel has begun airing ads announcing a full Battlestar Galactica series following the surprisingly (to some) good new mini series starring Edward James Olmos. Looks like it will be a straight forward continuation of the mini, with the same cast and more Cylon goodness!" According to this press release, Richard Hatch will guest star, and the show will air starting in January 2005.

Let's just hope

[Anonymous Coward]

They don't find the ratings too low and revamp it into Galactica 2006. "Hey, look, we're on Earth now!"

And a year from now...

[Anita Coney]

I'll be cancelled.

Yeah, this is flamebait, but that doesn't change its veracity.

Guest Star?

[Anonymous Coward]

If they mean this Richard Hatch

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor/survivors/ri chard.shtml [cbs.com]

All I can say is... FRACK.

Richard Hatch? Oh no

[bravehamster]

God, I hope he keeps his clothes on this time. And Olmos better watch out, or he'll find that everyone has voted him off the Galactica

*yes I know it's a different Richard Hatch.

Richard Hatch?

[PeterChenoweth]

Oh thank god it's not the Survivor Richard Hatch. [richhatch.com]

Terrible nightmares of naked homosexual Cylons hell-bent on manipulating the universe...

Re:no mas no mas! or... "What's up with SG?"

[Wizzy Wig]

So they turned the McGuyver action hero character central to the SG theme into a desk jockey.... Yeah.. that'll boost ratings as they replace his anger fed machine gun sprees with angst fed stapler accidents.

Re:no mas no mas!

[pyrrhonist]

Well, at least you're not bitter about it.

Re:And a year from now...

[Em Ellel]

I'll be cancelled.

I think you may be cancelled way earlier than that... let me make a few phone calls.

(sorry, could not resist)

Re:"Human Cylons" are a mistake...

[digitalhermit]

Actually, I can imagine that no-name cylons would be cheaper -- no need to pay a recurring actor/actress since anyone can don a costume and continue... Plus I seem to recall that the identity of the Cylon infiltrators was already known... Unless the lookaline happens to have been the human from which they cloned the appearance...

For my predictions:
A cylon becomes a 7-of-9; that is, it integrates into human culture. There will be some episodes where it reverts back to its roots, but somehow, through sheer human (ha) will, overcomes its mechanical nature. A human crewmember falls in love with the Cylon.

A Cylon and a human get trapped on a planet. They need to overcome their differences in order to survive. Someone insults Mickey Mouse. One says, "Picard in big chair, turning."

A human infiltrates Cylon HQ by mimicking Capt. Kirk's robotic delivery: Jones....Jones.....Cannot....keep....straight....f ace..

A crew member dies in an early episode but reappears in a later one as the son/daughter/doppelganger. Time travel may be involved. Or cloning. Or, egads, Cylons replicating. They'll call him Duncan. Duncan Idaho. Or Tasha if it's a she.

A gay space pirate named Sonny Crockett appears. He seems to know the captain from way back... Rumors float and some light-hearted banter.

Screw the show! Where are the tie-in TOYS?!

[IronChefMorimoto]

Dammit! Screw Edward James Olmos and his pock-faced character. To hell with that lebian-ish looking chick that plays Starbuck, forever ruining the original series' mac daddy version of Starbuck (who later trolled the A-Team series). I don't care that the 2nd of two black guys from the original series has been turned into an Asian woman...that might actually be a humanoid Cylon fabricated for the sheer ease of reducing the CGI effects budget!

WHAT ABOUT THE DAMNED TOYS?!

I want my little Galactica starfighter back -- from when I was only about 6 or 7 years old. I want figures to put into the starfights -- ones WITHOUT arms that bend at the elbows wrists. They better have less arm/leg motion than a Barbie doll on downers! I want the toys to require batteries so I can keep replacing them over and over again -- JUST TO HEAR THE CHEEZY LASTER BLASTER SOUNDS!

Oh -- and I want a Cylon fighter this time. My brother got a Lincoln Log set last time I owned Galactica toys, and dammit -- it's time I had my Cylong fighter! Fuck you, bro -- let's see how your "cabin" fairs against my army of silver badass Cylons! :-p

IronChefMorimoto

Ponderosa in space

[baomike]

Do I really want more?
Maybe the Cylons and Daleks can once and for always
make space safe for inorganics.

Great...

[payndz]

...now what about an update of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century?

"Bidibidibidi, nice ass, Wilma!"

Re:Richard Hatch?

[bnenning]

Terrible nightmares of naked homosexual Cylons hell-bent on manipulating the universe...

Provided the Cylons in question are portrayed by Tricia Holfer [maximonline.com] and Grace Park [galactica2003.net], I have no problem with that scenario.

Re:"Human Cylons" are a mistake...

[Jetson]

The pilot movie made it clear that the following series will revolve around the question which of the Galactica crew members is actually a cylon, possibly without even knowing about it.

That would be Rick Deckard, right?

NO NO

[Snaller]

You miss the point - this news item is about the NEW SPOTS they are running on Scifi! They didn't have them i February!