The Americans Only! Battlestar Galactica Thread

[Rigil Kent]

Nah, the entire ragtag BSG fleet will arrive at Earth just in time for the Shadow War to kick off. Then we can have cool firefights between Vipers & Starfurys.

 

[Fajitas]

To make it worse I can remember having discussions at school about how cool it would be if the Galactica found Earth and it was the 25th century....you know with Buck, Col. Dearing & Dr. Theopolis!

*LOL* Oh, the wonderful, cheesy, late-70s, Glen Larsony horror of it...

 

[MaxKaladin]

Hey, let's not forget Troy and Dillon...

Er, lets.

I remember being 9 or 10 and anticipating that sequel so much and being so disappointed. I prefer to just forget it existed.

And 'Greenbean'? There was actually a character named 'Greenbean'?

Yes. Yes there was.

>sigh< I have a very, very, very fond place in my heart for the original Battlestar, but man, there were some terrible things about that show.

It was a wonderful show when I was 8, but a lot of terrible things must have seemed really cool when I was 8. I tried watching it again when I was in my 20s and was saddened that it just didn't measure up to my memory of how cool it was. In my case, the word to describe the show wasn't "terrible" so much as it was "corny". Then again, a lot of 70s TV seems really corny to me now.

Lest I provoke a flamewar, that isn't to say there was nothing good about the original Galactica series, but it didn't age well. I still have a very fond place in my heart for it though.

 

[Krieg]

Lest I provoke a flamewar, that isn't to say there was nothing good about the original Galactica series, but it didn't age well. I still have a very fond place in my heart for it though.

Bah, you know you still want to play Borellian.

 

[Darrin Drader]

Lest I provoke a flamewar, that isn't to say there was nothing good about the original Galactica series, but it didn't age well. I still have a very fond place in my heart for it though.

Yeah, especially the '70's hairdos and the disco scenes.

I also thought it was cheesy how in The Gun on Ice Planet Zero - one of the coolest original episodes, Starbuck's hair kept going from long to short, to long again. If only Dirk would have waited until the episode was done shooting to get that haircut.

 

[MaxKaladin]

Yeah, especially the '70's hairdos and the disco scenes.

I don't remember the disco scenes in BSG. When I think of bad 70s pop culture references from that period, I think of the Gil Gerard Buck Rogers show.

I also thought it was cheesy how in The Gun on Ice Planet Zero - one of the coolest original episodes, Starbuck's hair kept going from long to short, to long again. If only Dirk would have waited until the episode was done shooting to get that haircut.

I didn't remember that detail. It wasn't a bad episode either. Compared to some of them, it was an absolute gem.

 

[dravot]

I don't remember the disco scenes in BSG. When I think of bad 70s pop culture references from that period, I think of the Gil Gerard Buck Rogers show.

I vaguely recall that the waltz was back in vogue in the 25th century.

 

[MaxKaladin]

I vaguely recall that the waltz was back in vogue in the 25th century.

I don't remember what was in vogue in the 25th century. I do remember that one of the running gags was that Buck was not into 25th century music at all and kept listening to 20th century music. This gave the producers an excuse to insert (really terrible) 70s music into various episodes. Often, he would be listening to it in his apartment and the various 25th century people would roll their eyes at his "music" and he would laugh at them.

 

[dagger]

I have watched the episodes up to number 9 so far, I just hope that the show comes back for a full 2nd season. I personally have turned two non sci-fi watching folks onto the show. This show is blowing me away right now, the only other show I ocassionaly watch (once a month at the most) is Stargate.

One thing I don't like, is how folks always want to know how it compares to the old show.
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I have been saying Frak a lot.......I'm not a fanboy, I swear!

 

[RichCsigs]

In the 70s Buck Rogers pilot movie, didn't Buck and Queen Ardala (sp?) disco dance?

The new BG has just been so great. I really hope they can keep the quality up.