Battlestar Galactica Revival

The ending will be just as disappointing.

lol, g1.

Yeah about that

http://io9.com/5932211/bryan-singer-claims-his-battlestar-galactica-movie-can-connect-both-bsg-tv-series

well seeing as how the Moore version's mythos is a bunch of incomprehensible nonsense, of COURSE you could make it work with anything

you're a bunch of..etc

actually I'm an angel... from the FUTURE

fine. but you're still kind of a jerk :)

thinking about rewatching this

i've been thinking about the series ending.

there are two starbucks, one alive and one dead. there are two earths, one alive and one dead. dead starbuck ends up on dead earth and alive starbuck ends up on alive earth.

no idea if they planned this but it's a nice symmetry.

alive starbuck does not end up on alive earth

what, because she vanishes?

ime experience this is not something live people are able to do

Just because she's a ghost doesn't mean she's not there. That's racist.

tbf, dead people don't walk around and fly spaceships either

hhmmmmm yes, it's almost as if her entire character arc makes no sense...

has anyone here ever played the board game? it's REALLY fun, prob the best thing that came out of this series

http://www.livingdice.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/img_0337.jpg

thats it!

I never knew there was a board game!

Just because she's a ghost doesn't mean she's not there. That's racist.

SMH at the racism against ghosts on this board.

It's sad, she was a ghost.

my decision to rewatch this for winter 2012/13 is probably the best decision i have made in the past few months

i'd totally forgotten that the mini-series came out in *2003* - i do remember where i watched it and feeling the hype. it's still so good and so brutal! the part with the kid on the garden ship without an ftl drive, just before it gets nuked! whoa. harshness.
and the fate of the human race, floating in space! and 33 minutes btwn jumps! the humanity!
anyway. it's fun to experience this show again.

Did some recent skipping around thanks to Netflix. The series ending still falls apart big time, but sure started with a bang and then some. In retrospect not showing the fall of the Colonies much at the start was a brilliant move, everything felt more isolated from the get-go.

yeah imo everything after sbux reappearance is meh but everything up to and including her absence is a+

the stretch around the end of the second season/start of the third is seriously awesome

Yeah the whole last 1.5 seasons is middling, except for the muutiny/sedition arc in the last season, which weirdly reverted to pure S1 awesomeness.

mookie and simon utterly OTM.

Re the finale, I felt most* of the character arcs were resolved satisfactorily. It's just that the actual plot really really wasn't.

*glaring exception - STARBUCK IS AN ANGEL

Yes, yes, and yes.

The finale was *not* good, but it didn't ruin the show. I still want to watch the whole thing again sometime, unlike (obviously) Lost.

The mutiny stuff was probably a series highlight.

I aslo keep forgetting the Rosyln assistant character – in my mind I keep thinking he’s Chris Addison.

I just watched the pilot last night, and now i have the first season ready to go. It'll have to be a few weeks but i'm going to nerd out so much on this pretty soon. It is pretty great! Hot-shot space marine who's the best starpilot in the galaxy? Commentary on the consequences of war from the perspective of both The President and a oblivious, doomed little girl? An army of sexy killer robots? Hell yes.

man you're in for about two seasons of really awesome shit

My favourite discovery of the past couple of weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKiQ2h_p8uM

just finished episode 1 and, like, this is a pretty fuckin satsfying show huh

haha

haven't read this thread yet eh

it strikes me that this show is reeeeeeally white

there's two main non-white female leads but idk if that's clear at the beginning

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/richard-hatch-dead-.html

Richard Hatch, a veteran actor known for his portrayal of a hotshot pilot on the 1970s science-fiction television series “Battlestar Galactica” and a political leader in a reboot of the series more than two decades later, died on Tuesday. He was 71.

;_; rip Apollo

:(

RIP traitorous Zarek

I like this take on the character (copied from WikI):

After "Blood on the Scales", Richard Hatch commented on Zarek's motives on the Chicago Tribune website:[1] "I would like to say that never did I play this character as a villain nor did I think he was one and I still feel that way. After paying the price of 25 years in prison for standing up for human rights and seeing both his family, friends and cohorts killed by a suppressive government on his home planet he had every right to distrust the powers that be on Galactica that seemed to think that only they had the right to make decisions for the people. And since Zarek was blocked illegally by Roslin and Adama at every turn including from winning a fair election he had to resort to any leverage he could gain to assert some kind of voice in what had become an almost dictatorial government run by Adama and Roslin, who looked with disdain upon the council of the 12 and did pretty much what they wanted without consensus of the people." In his opinion, "Zarek, Adama and Roslin all wanted power for the same reason, to make a positive difference but Zarek still idealistically believed that the government should always be accountable to the people".

Is Hatch near unique in this regard? To have played two distinctly different characters in two versions of the same story/franchise/whatever, where both were key characters for the story as a whole? (As opposed to simply a walk-on/cameo role in a reboot, since that's happened any number of times.) I know that he wasn't supposed to be recurring initially but obviously he became one.

Of course saying 'distinctly different' is shaded nicely by his quote there -- he, very rightly, played both characters as heroes according to their own standards.

I certainly think his decades-long efforts to reboot the show before the reboot are remarkable.

The original series is hokey as hell but I loved it to death as a kid, and he made for a good, earnest hero.

I started watching the original show with Galactica 1980 where they go back in time and punch Hitler or something. I think it's supposed to be awful but I LOVED it. Not sure if Hatch appears in it, actually.

The two-parter that sends off Hatch's character is probably the sole redeeming moment of the last season or so. So frustrating to see that glimpse of former excellence followed by the S.O.S. again.

I started watching the original show with Galactica 1980 where they go back in time and punch Hitler or something. I think it's supposed to be awful but I LOVED it. Not sure if Hatch appears in it, actually.

He wasn't -- very few of the characters from the original show made it over. Adama, Boomer (now in Tigh's position) and Boxey, now one of the two adult leads, are the only consistent carryovers. Starbuck ended up marooned on a desert planet in a flashback episode and Baltar is still out there Baltaring. That's about it.

If the series had survived any more, the batshittery would have increased, per Wikipedia:

the series was cancelled during production of episode 11, "The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra", which remained unfinished

I mean at this rate, they would have ended up creating Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure eight years early.

Good grief, and it turns out the original version of Galactica 1980 would have been even goofier...though it is interesting that Baltar in this version would have partially followed the path of the one in the new version:

Both Larson and the network felt the show needed some major change of focus to relaunch it as a spin-off, and Larson and Donald P. Bellisario decided to set the new series five years after "The Hand of God", the final episode of the original series. This would allow them to weed out many supporting characters who were now considered superfluous - Colonel Tigh, Athena, Cassiopeia, Boxey, etc. - which would bring down production costs. The only major characters to return from the original series would be Commander Adama, Colonel Boomer (replacing Tigh), Apollo, Starbuck and Count Baltar. Baltar was to have made atonement for betraying the Colonies to the Cylons, and was now the President of the Council of Twelve.

Upon discovering a 'present day' Earth completely unable to defend itself from the Cylons, Adama decided to just head off into deep space to lead the Cylons away from the planet, but Baltar suggested using time travel technology to alter Earth's history so its technology would develop more rapidly up to a Colonial level. The Council votes this suggestion down, so Baltar steals a ship capable of time travel and heads into Earth's past to carry out his plan anyway. After some deliberation, Starbuck and Apollo are sent after him to bring him back or at least undo his changes to history. Episodes would feature a new "Time Mission" every week, generally with Apollo at some different time in the past, and Starbuck flying back and forth between "Now" and "Then" to give information and support to Apollo. ABC approved this pitch, and gave the approval to develop a pilot for the series.

Baltar is still out there Baltaring

lol

dont stop baltaring