Battlestar Galactica????

[Corinth]

Can the new show please change Cylon fighters such that it doesn't take three of them to fly the damned thing?

 

[Silver Moon]

In all fairness to the original series - the first five of the twenty-four hours were actually quite good, as were the two hours later on that Lloyd Bridges guest starred in.

Give Glen Larson a chance, maybe the new series will be the formal apology for Galactica 1980.

 

[Umbran]

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

No, let's not. That'd make the show the same as everyone else. Every other show has the "main ship" do all the gruntwork personally. That's about as dumb as sending the captain out as part of an away mission. Let the Battlestar be, in effect, an aircraft carrier, the flagship, the HQ, it should stand back from the action, just as the captaoin shouldn't be sticking his neck out.

 

[Tonguez]

No, let's not. That'd make the show the same as everyone else. Every other show has the "main ship" do all the gruntwork personally. That's about as dumb as sending the captain out as part of an away mission. Let the Battlestar be, in effect, an aircraft carrier, the flagship, the HQ, it should stand back from the action, just as the captaoin shouldn't be sticking his neck out.

I agree with Umbran - remember the Ship was intended to transport people through war ravaged territory - the Battlestar was as much colony ship as it was warship. It was armed because it had to be and personally I loved the show...

 

[Chimera]

Gee, I suppose that's why it's called a "Battlestar", eh?

I'm not asking for it to not be a carrier anymore, just for it to have some actual weaponry of it's own. Enough to justify the name.

 

[MaxKaladin]

The Battlestars were supposed to be armed "aircraft" carriers. I imagine they originally had escort ships to protect them but lost them in the ambush at the peace conference. I've not seen any reference to the battlestars being colony ships save the Galactica being a defacto colony ship.

There was an episode of the original series where we saw the Galactica go toe to toe with an enemy ship and shoot off missiles and stuff. I suspect the fighting power of the Galactica may have been limited by both a lack of expendible stores like missiles and the fact that its the last of its kind and you don't want to put it in harms way if you have any other option.

 

[Qlippoth]

There was an episode of the original series where we saw the Galactica go toe to toe with an enemy ship and shoot off missiles and stuff. I suspect the fighting power of the Galactica may have been limited by both a lack of expendible stores like missiles and the fact that its the last of its kind and you don't want to put it in harms way if you have any other option.

You also have to consider that every successful shot from BG took at least twice the energy (since every other hit had to be shown from a reversed angle).

 

[Assenpfeffer]

Give Glen Larson a chance, maybe the new series will be the formal apology for Galactica 1980.

As far as I know, Glen Larson has nothing to do with the remake.

 

[Ranger REG]

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.

I disagree. The main reason is that ABC could not afford the expensive budget of the TV series, which lasted only one season. NBC managed to do two seasons of Buck Rogers of the 25th Century. Both of these TV shows take place during the first Star Wars movie opening, as well as Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

 

[MaxKaladin]

I disagree. The main reason is that ABC could not afford the expensive budget of the TV series, which lasted only one season. NBC managed to do two seasons of Buck Rogers of the 25th Century. Both of these TV shows take place during the first Star Wars movie opening, as well as Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Huh? Galactica came out in the Fall of '78 and Buck Rogers came in '79. The first Star Wars opened in May of 1977.