Topic: OT: Battlestar Galactica miniseries boycott (Read 23897 times)

FormerDM · « **Reply #100 on:** September 25, 2003, 10:31:37 am »

and back to the dangerous topic of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries....

SciFi.com has posted four video clips of David Eick, Ron Moore and cast-members at Comic-Con International 2003 discussing their approach to the miniseries and fan reaction.

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/

Aldaron · « **Reply #101 on:** September 25, 2003, 06:57:48 pm »

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Oh alderon how little thou doest know about how the world turns.... "Fan Boys" have every right to effect a tv show they are fans of. And I suppose you would be called a "Fan Boy" of SFC by those who think it's an overrated game, like Gamespy does. Does that make you feel like you have less claim to ask Taldren to keep patching it? What a fool...

Try to follow me here. If I'm a fan of SFC and encourage Taldren to patch it I am not taking anything away from anyone. However if I hated the game and went on a campaign to have it removed becuase me and a few SFB fans found it offensive to what we consider SFB as sacred then I would be partly responsible in having it taken away from people who did like it. See the difference!

Having the new BSG air without interference from "fan boys" takes nothing away because you can simply not watch. However if it's taken off the air and I like it how can I watch it?!

Captain KoraH · « **Reply #102 on:** September 28, 2003, 10:40:03 pm »

Uhm... no, you're totally off the mark. What were talking about here is much more like Activision releasing a patch for SFC3 that totally changes the game for the worse. For instance, what if they decided that it would be cool if photon torpedoes were really just big tomatoes flying thru space? And what if they decided that the theme song from Hee-Haw would be playing instead of the SFC theme music. And what if they decided that all the ships should look like carrots with spoons tied to them using bailing wire? That's what were talking about here Alderon, someone is taking our baby and horribly mutilating it. And you know what, I bet some lunatics out there would actually like flying vegetables instead of SFC ships, but I doubt you would just sit back and play the game anyway because they said it's better to have an open mind. Come on man, stop arguing and wake up! This is bad! You don't just sit back and let something bad happen if you can prevent it:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Eltanin · « **Reply #105 on:** September 29, 2003, 11:42:53 am »

I loved BSG and Frankly I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT THEY'VE DONE WITH IT!! It just opens up so many possibilities by makings some of the changes they're going ahead with. A human looking cylon...that's just a plain cool idea (and a logical strategic choice if you ask me...). Starbuck as a woman! Why not? Again, great new possibilities for character depth. EJ Olmos for Adama...the man's just a GREAT actor. The only think I've seen I don't like, and it's the same with every SF tv show it that....everything is so clean! The vidcaps I've seen are aweful, the art director should be shot. Where's the grunge? People sweat in more places than just their face!

The only thing that does kind of get me is how they torpedo'd Hatch who's been busting his hump for years.

Ah well...I'm counting the days till it's on.

EmeraldEdge · « **Reply #106 on:** September 29, 2003, 01:38:55 pm »

Human looking Cylon has already been done, in Battlestar '80. Ugh. Sucked then, and probably will now. I think the thing that get's me most, is that without the specific names in the title, and models used for ships, how much is it really like the original. They could easily have just not put that in and it would have been completely new thing that a lot of people might have been able to get behind. It might have sparked a lot of (Hey, remember Battlestar Galactica? Boy, wish we could have both of these shows). What they have done though is taken something and changed it almost beyond recognition. Personally I don't have a problem with some of the character changes. Boomer, don't mind that she's a woman, but Starbuck?

I agree with the clean comment as well. Everything looks very generic sci-fi, with a sterile feel to it. No character at all. I feel really bad about it too, because I like some of the actors attached. (I was always wondering who could do Adama after Lorne Greene, but I think Olmos certainly could pull it off. It's too bad it's a halfway version of BSG) Imo, they should have just made it look and sound that last little bit (since it's already away) different and called it something else.

IntgrSpin · « **Reply #107 on:** September 29, 2003, 02:00:51 pm »

The more people shriek "BOYCOTT!" the more I want to check it out.

Sure I watched BSG as a kid. I watched Dukes of Hazzard and Buck Rogers too. Know what? They all SUCK as high art.

Know what else? Star Trek with it's winky dink dime-store philosophy and new age preachiness sucks too. If I want philosophy, I'll read James, Nietzsche, Sartre or Kant, not watch some dopey show from the sixtes shoveling around philosophy 101, hoping people will be impressed.

What do I want in media entertainment? I want Captain Kirk fistfighting with some latex dinosaur. I want some green chick mudwrestling with some orange chick. I want big explosions and a thrilling soundtrack. I want cheap thrills and cheaper laughs.

I like things that offend people, and maybe makes them wonder why they're being offended. It is just a stupid TV show after all. Don't like it? There are about 300 other channels that aren't playing it, but that's not quite good enough is it? You also want to make sure nobody else watches it either! "Oh they changed a bad TV show from the seventies and made it into a bad TV show for today, BOYCOTT!"

Some of you guys are SO cute...

Baker · « **Reply #109 on:** October 01, 2003, 03:14:47 am »

300 Channels? Holy Hell that's a lot of stations. I'd hate to have to check out what's on tv for one night.

IntgrSpin · « **Reply #110 on:** October 01, 2003, 03:48:26 pm »

Cablevision, Optimum TV digital service. With cable internet, $130ish per month.

Captain KoraH · « **Reply #112 on:** September 16, 2003, 02:04:25 pm »

I'm emploring everyone I know to boycott every product advertised during the new BSG miniseries that will air on the Sci-Fi channel in December. I know a lot of you who read this forum are also fans of BSG, and there is a nationwide campaign to boycott products advertised during the show to show the makers that raping a show and showing total disregard for it's fans won't make you any money. Thanks for your consideration. Please tell everyone you know about the boycott.

Komodo · « **Reply #113 on:** September 16, 2003, 02:32:29 pm »

Interesting...First I've heard of them finally doing something after all the rumours. I'm not one for boycotts, but elaborate please...

DONOTDELETE · « **Reply #114 on:** September 16, 2003, 02:51:28 pm »

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David Ferrell · « **Reply #115 on:** September 16, 2003, 03:17:01 pm »

I agree with the boycott myself. What the Sci-Fi channel has done is
an abomination and a rip-off of the Battlestar name.

The series DVD will be out soon and I will vote for that with my wallet.

Thanks,

Dave

David Ferrell · « **Reply #117 on:** September 16, 2003, 03:28:55 pm »

Edward James Olmos speaks out on the new BSG:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/6274118.htm

Summary, if you liked the original, don't watch the new one.

Thanks,

Dave

DONOTDELETE · « **Reply #118 on:** September 16, 2003, 03:44:11 pm »

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David Ferrell · « **Reply #119 on:** September 16, 2003, 04:04:30 pm »

I want a show that is *reasonably* faithful to the original.

Not Cylons that look human (shoot the one in the trailer looks like
a cosmo cover girl).

Starbuck and Boomer not to be women. Fine have women warriors,
but don't change the gender, of arguably, the star of the show.

There are more, but that would be a good start.

DM I suggest you familarize yourself with the changes so you know
what your talking about.

Thanks,

Dave

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