Topic: OT: Battlestar Galactica miniseries boycott (Read 23892 times)

TalonClaw · « **Reply #40 on:** September 18, 2003, 01:47:21 pm »

Quote:

Some people it appears don't have the intelligence when confronted
with a pile of dog poop to not put it in their mouths. Frankly it sickens me.

Dave

A rather graphic representation of how it is. The Entertainment industry has learned that they can shovel us all the poop we can eat simply because we gobble up anything that is a sequel to something we know and love.

ActiveX · « **Reply #41 on:** September 18, 2003, 01:55:29 pm »

Lookit the slams...yeeeouch...

TalonClaw · « **Reply #44 on:** September 18, 2003, 03:05:58 pm »

Then call it Apollo and Starbuck in the sack. It's no longer a family show and does not deserve the BSG name.

Captain Krenn · « **Reply #45 on:** September 18, 2003, 03:24:51 pm »

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

NannerSlug · « **Reply #47 on:** September 18, 2003, 03:38:15 pm »

the new bsg is the complete opposite of what the orginal bsg was.

i loved watching bsg when i was a kid.. the good guys were good.. and the baddies were that.. the script was forward looking at what is good in us..

this script is nothing more than an election year bush bashing pile of political mush which looks and exploits what is bad about us.

sorry if this is sappy, but i like watching things that talk about what is good and right - and how we can over come struggles.. not about how everyone is out to screw each other and how there is a lie underneath ever rock.

poor script. sorry.

David Ferrell · « **Reply #49 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 #51 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 #53 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 #54 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 #55 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 #56 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 #57 on:** September 18, 2003, 05:06:45 pm »

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

Or OT leaked...

News:

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