Battlestar Galactica Revival

did the show age well?

I remember loving it the first time I watched it. Desperation on every page.

The only other thing I remember is thinking Boomer's portrayal was absolutely atrocious, but maybe I was too emotionally calcified at the time to connect to the softness of the character.

It really doesn’t go to shit until the middle of the fourth/last season, does it?

red flags everywhere by the season 3 closer, said the joker to the thief

I think I posted about this years ago, but this is the transcript of a roundtable that Moore and several actors did while the show was still going - https://en.battlestarwikiclone.org/wiki/Podcast:The_Battlestar_Roundtable

About halfway through Jamie Bamber has some very thoughtful criticisms of the direction of the show and the evolution of the Cylons.

I think mid-season 3, it starts getting pretty bad and just gets worse. I loved the miniseries and first 2 seasons but have zero desire to revisit, knowing where it ends up

had to break down and make a Peacock account to re-screen

thread bubbling spurred me to grab s1

the bbc2 schedule (2 episodes every friday) seems achingly slow given all this talk. 50 odd episodes to get through, that's 1/2 a year at this rate.

(i have them all on dvd, but dvd player is currently flashing up 'BLOCKED')

Is it not on Netflix? It definitely used to be (or maybe Amazon Prime)

only on peacock in america atm

Peacock hasn't shown me a single ad yet at least.

The one positive thing about the last couple seasons is thinking how much worse it could have been if they'd picked a more loathsome song ... like substitute a popular song that you cannot stand in place of Watchtower (for me it was "In the Air Tonight" by Phil collins) ... as hokey as that plot was, it would have been so much more painful with Phil Collins.

"Seasons in the Sun"

"We Are The Robots"

(I don't really do streaming - everything comes in over 3g via the phone)

The choice of ultimate boomer rock makes it worse.

"Sussussudio" would have ruled.

apparently there's only one uss in that song title

all the secret cylons harmonize on the "whoa-oas" and that's how they realize

I can't remember how brutal the airlocking of Felix was, but I let it pass at the time

Every '80s song I can think of is an improvement. Saul and Chief dancing to "Faith." The opening drum machine pattern to "Blue Monday" reverberating around the ship.

Tubthumping

Now I want a Cop Rock-ed Galactica where they do a couple of these each episode.

I was upset about what happened to Felix ... and Cassie ... I liked her and Chief as labor organizers on New Caprica!

"Sussussudio" would have ruled.

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for me, it would have been torture

if the song is "Last Caress", the outburst in the courtroom would get a lot weirder

'in the air tonight' would have been more awesome/fitting/hilarious

imagine waiting like six episodes for the drums to come in, and *then* the cylons go over the top

and then Anders picks up the phone and calls Starbuck and asks if she ever truly loved him

and then Christian Bale shows up in an expensive suit and kills everyone

or did he?

oh wait, that was Batmanstar Galactica!!!

The first episodes of the miniseries are still so good

If I'm honest, I probably like the miniseries more than the series. A similar argument can be made for the LOST pilot being the best the show gets. Both of them have so much promise

Can't watch BG without wondering what they do with all the corners of pages.

Started this with my daughter, who sat down to watch under duress - an "old" sci-fi reboot of an even older sci-fi she'd never heard of is a hard sell - but she was hooked immediately. It's at least as good as I remembered. I wonder if it was pitched as "Das Boot" meets "The Day After?"

I was surprised to be reminded that the religious/theological stuff is there in the very first episode.

Oh, she found it amusing (rightly), that in the miniseries someone actually says "OK, Boomer."

Man, felt like Cain was around for much longer than three episodes.

Good character! Disappointing that she's killed off.

Which reminds me - one of the dumbest decisions the producers made, IMO, was to put Tigh in an eyepatch. He's the best actor on the show - don't cover his eyes! Idiocy.

Also: :( https://www.gofundme.com/f/michael-hogan-fund

The Chief Tyrol/refining ship episode is infuriating. Roslin and Adama doing one of the unexplained shifts from benevolence to acting like monsters, a window into the fleet that gets three quarters of an episode, wrapped up with Roslin giving a patronizing speech.

Can't watch BG without wondering what they do with all the corners of pages.

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I was once told in pre internet times, that the corners from all Rizla papers were shipped to Sydney Opera house to provide the snow for their annual Christmas shows...

I expect something like that happens within the fleet.

yes, the famous snow-filled annual Christmas show at Sydney Opera House

started rewatching this and it's decent but ffs we get it, baltar is a sociopath -- please, enough with watching him try to converse/make funny faces with people *and* no. 6 simultaneously again and again forever

feel for tricia helfer condemned to spend four years nibbling on dude's ear, and also for dude having to do the same shocked expressions again and again

the general lack of music/space sound -- just drums and some minor (relative to, say, star trek) sound effects -- is intersting and effective

He finally gets a decent little run in the fourth season, which overall is even worse than I remembered.

Poor Gaeta.

They just could not keep Adama/Roslin/Apollo's characterization steady from episode to episode no matter which era of the show - Adama does his "no more friends" speech to the crew and threatens to shoot people and then the next episode is all "ur like a daughter to me" to someone who isn't Starbuck and then back to shooty then a mean drunk.

and in a single episode people are asking baltar to bless their children and others are picking up watchtower on the radio

Just watched this over about three weeks.

There's a lot of punching in the face, even boxing ep aside.

Is the smoking a running gag on the 70s? Do they smoke in the old ones?

Gonna miss Baltar and Caprica 6.

Old men fist fighting and crying with booze is definitely a big part of BSG appeal.

There'a an equal amount of young women being punched in the face (and doing punching tbf) by men. Just a lot o' punchin' all round.

I suppose some of the women are 2000 years old and/or not stricty women but the optics are the same.

Anyway, grim as much of it was I am slightly bereft at being dumped back on Earth 2.

What's next - Caprica?

There must be some kind of way out of here

I'd say if you are looking for another old scifi streaming show, I would check out Farscape. It is lower budget but it is more fun and less over the top grim as BSG.

If I was an entertainment mogul looking to make my scifi streaming show, I would adapt Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars series. Kinda surprised it has not happened yet, that book how it is setup I think could work well as a Tv show.