Topic: OT: Battlestar Galactica miniseries boycott (Read 23900 times)

TalonClaw · « **Reply #160 on:** September 18, 2003, 03:44:18 pm »

Quote:

Yikes!

I think Dave's having a bad day and needs to head out for a few margaritas!

Go get 1 or 2 and mail me the bill, I'll be happy to buy you a couple of rounds

Definately

"I burn." -- Spock

David Ferrell · « **Reply #161 on:** September 18, 2003, 03:46:28 pm »

Battlestar is something I enjoyed as a lad and I don't like to see it get
mangled by people trying to make a fast buck.

This isn't the first time that it has happened, Starship Troopers is even
a worse case. No talents trading on and twisting another?s work to get their story,
that no wanted without the famous name, published.

I would say the problem with the USA is we are too tolerant. Too many people
are willing to look the other way at abhorrent behavior as long as it doesn't
directly affect them.

Thanks,

Dave

Captain KoraH · « **Reply #163 on:** September 18, 2003, 04:02:40 pm »

How good the original was isn't the point really, we're talking about how bad the remake is. I'm sure we could think of other bad originals that had better remakes too, but let's stick to the point.

I do agree about the "collective we" shoveling poop into our mouths as fast as we can, which in turn causes the poop pedlers to produce more of it. That's sort of the whole point behind the boycott, to stop eating their poop.

That's a nice melodramatic speech about killing home invaders, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with my point. Go ahead and watch the show, it's your time to waste. Maybe your favorite show will be next if enough people like the new BSG, but I sure wouldn't be going into your boycott thread and telling you to keep an open mind about it.

Toasty0 · « **Reply #165 on:** September 18, 2003, 04:41:08 pm »

This is television fer goodness sakes. It is not brain surgery. It is not rocket science. It is a medium of entertainment...much like vaudville and traveling geek shows.

This name calling, and other inapproperiate actions over an electronic box that serves no other purpose than to engage the undereducated with product that requires no critical analysis or thought is almost ludicrous if it weren't so sad. Add to the mix the absurdity that this donnybrook is specifically over a show that was the ultimate representive of sci-fi televison camp in its time. No wonder the gallery is snickering.

I guess it is true that if you stare into the unblinking eye long enough perspective looses all reference to reality.

David Ferrell · « **Reply #166 on:** September 18, 2003, 04:52:31 pm »

It's certainly no worse than a bunch of grown men arguing over which to use:
170 or 180 BPV.

Thanks,

Dave

David Ferrell · « **Reply #167 on:** September 18, 2003, 04:58:00 pm »

Nor any worse than getting excited over an advertising gimick for a video game:

http://208.57.228.4/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Black9General&Number=162202&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Thanks,

Dave

Jwest · « **Reply #168 on:** September 18, 2003, 05:05:10 pm »

I'm not a big fan of Battlestar Galactica - Star Trek claimed to be Space Opera, to get past the networks that thought intellectual Sci-Fi was a losing proposition. BSG was, in fact, Space Opera - Good Space Opera, but space Opera.

I don't think it's going to be all that good - first glance appraisal is that it's far to close to the same BS that's been served up before. On the other hand, the last time I just decided I wasn't going to watch a show was when Dark Angel got replaced by Firefly, which turned out to be a good show, with good writing, and I rather wish I had had the chance to see it all the way through. My ability to judge a show in advance of actually watching it is demonstrably fallible.

Perhaps no one else here possesses that particular flaw.

ActiveX · « **Reply #169 on:** September 18, 2003, 05:06:45 pm »

Somebody hosed everyone with gasoline and lit a match...

Or OT leaked...

Mentat Jon · « **Reply #174 on:** September 18, 2003, 07:41:27 pm »

you know what my biggest beef with the new BSG?

Starbuck:

Starbuck's a guy,a charming rouge,a womenizing hard drinking cigar smoking,cylon killing SOB.

im not the biggest cannon freak in the world,but Starbuck being a guy should be one of them.

thats kinda like remaking Starwars and Darth Vaders a women..

David Ferrell · « **Reply #175 on:** September 18, 2003, 08:15:45 pm »

Well Toasty0, accept my apology and let us part as friends.

Dave

Agent XXX · « **Reply #176 on:** September 18, 2003, 09:20:47 pm »

How bout a little movie to remind you, of what was, A decent piece of flimage from ours and yours more than likely past

www.gametrailers.com

Sierra
Battlestar Galactica

Quicktime, and its kinda long...

NannerSlug · « **Reply #177 on:** September 18, 2003, 10:01:49 pm »

now THAT is BSG. SWEETness.. see.. this shows what COULD have been done.. and best of all.. its for a video game. lol.

TheShadow · « **Reply #178 on:** September 19, 2003, 01:34:47 am »

I'll not watch the show simply because they have targeted the lowest common denominator, they have screwed the premise of the show, and because I hate MTV automatons! Boycott away comrades!

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