Battlestar Galactica????

[JamesL85]

Was getting ready to go to bed tonight and saw something on Sci-Fi that I thought was interesting.

It was a quickie splash ad for "an original Sci-Fi series" that had "Battlestar Galactica" on it.

I realize that I was tired and all, but is this just a rerun of the original series, or is it completely new???

Any help would be greatly appreciated.....

 

[2d6]

All new. Apparently it's a "reimaging" of the original show.

 

[Tyranthraxus]

Battlestar Galactica

Howdy,

Just thought Id pipe up with some information on the new reworking of Battlestar Galactica.

If anyone is interested there is a Battlestar Galactica website for both the new and old series of the show at www.scifi.com It has cast bios.. the works

Well I was initially apprehensive of the show (concern : Starbuck is now a female character).. I hope its good and it plans to become a TV series.

Some cast members were at the recent Comicon whereever that was held and said some pretty different things about the direction of the tv movies.

Anyway, more info at www.scifi.com

Matt

 

[Welverin]

San Diego

Some cast members were at the recent Comicon whereever that was held and said some pretty different things about the direction of the tv movies.

For god's sake get with it man!

 

[trancejeremy]

While I hope it's good, it sounds like they're just replacing the entire cast with Ewoks.


I don't get why people have to remake originals. They try to "improve" them, but generally ruin everything that made them great to begin with.

 

[Umbran]

I don't get why people have to remake originals.

It's very simple - it's eaiser to sell a remake. A remake is based upon a known quantity, with a known audience. When you put forth something completely new, nobody knows if folks will even tune in for the first episode. For remakes, you have the added hook of curiosity and old fans to draw upon.

So, an executive is more likely to accept that a remake miniseries/pilot movie will at least break even. Sad, but true.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Starbuck will be a broad in the new Battlestar Galactica. That is not the BG that I remember so I will not be putting any real effort into watching it.

 

[Mallus]

I don't get why people have to remake originals.

In this case, I'm looking foraward to the 're-imagining", seeing as the original material bit. I have fond childhood memories of Battlestar, and while some of the imagery/ship design/etc is certainly iconic, the show just wasn't very good.

Much like the way the Buffy series "re-imagined" the original film, making it into something far far more satisfying, I hope this new treatment of BG really takes the source material and improves on and runs with it...

 

[Assenpfeffer]

I don't get why people have to remake originals. They try to "improve" them, but generally ruin everything that made them great to begin with.

While true as far as it goes, the thing that has to be remembered in this particular case is that Battlestar Galactica wasn't that great to begin with. It had enormous potential, to be sure, but very little of that was actually realized in the show. Partially this is beacuse of its premature cancellation, but part of it is because TV was not, at that time, ready for the kind of show that BG needed to be to realize its full potential.

Today, with shows like B5, the Sopranos and Buffy having broken TV out of the stand-alone episode mold, and showing TV producers that it's okay to have ongoing plotlines in your show, BG has a much better chance of exploring the concept to the fullest, as the original was unable to do.

That said, I don't have much faith in Sci-Fi's ability to turn BG into the great property I think it could be if handled correctly. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Chimera]

I'm with Assenpfeffer on this one. I'm interested to see if they can carry off a decent arc.

And let's face it. The original sucked monkey balls in execution. The Galactica was a joke as a combat ship. The acting was bad. The sets were bad. The stories were bad. The Cylons had a collective IQ of 57. The terminology was a freaking joke. Just stick "on" at the end of every thing. Cylon, centon, micron, lighton, clap on...

That being said, it was still scifi and I still watched it semi-regularly. At least, until Galactica 1980 when they reached Earth. That was just plain painful.

So I'm kinda looking forward to what they can do with this and hope that it's at least a semi-serious take with nice nasty Cylon enemies and a bit of a dark streak.

And give me a Galactica that can actually do something on it's own and is not just a barely armed fighter carrier. Please!

(Oh, and hey, whatshername can actually be a "Ship's Prostitute" nowadays, not start out as one and then be turned into a Nurse by the network.)