Topic: OH...MY...GOD (Read 2781 times)

Clark Kent · « **on:** December 08, 2003, 08:32:22 pm »

I'm watching the Battlestar Galactica mini series right now, and it's not even a half hour into it, and there have been three sex scenes already. I have never been one to believe in gratuitous nudity and/or sex, however, this series has already changed that. A bit dissapointing. It's like watching soft core porn- the plot is getting in the way of all the sex.
CK

DonKarnage · « **Reply #1 on:** December 08, 2003, 09:55:52 pm »

m not suprise, i read some stuff about it and there imitation of voyager with 6 of 9 in bsg, very bad the got a good serie and turn it bad alll the way

NannerSlug · « **Reply #2 on:** December 08, 2003, 09:59:32 pm »

should have read david ferrell's post.

the new bsg is baloney.

Fury_of_a_Seraph · « **Reply #3 on:** December 08, 2003, 10:17:14 pm »

honestly, i think it will be turned down in the future episodes.

Personally, i think that they should not have made Starbuck female. I can see Boomer as female, but not Starbuck.

I love how they handle the psychological effect of the attack, very heart wrenching, and personally i sympathized a great deal

Clark Kent · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2003, 05:50:00 am »

I dunno, the first part of any story is about introducing the reader/viewer to either the characters, plot, or both. All they reall did through most of the first part was show you sex and T&A. That sets the viewers up for shallow and meaningless story. Moreover, they even said in the previews on commercials that that wasd one of their priorities- to cover a sexuality of the "I got your back" type of thing.
Making boomer a girl, yeah, well sadly, boomer was just a token character anyway.
CK

Kaenyne · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2003, 08:07:58 am »

Yeah, I thought they could have toned it down somewhat myself. I know they wanted to do a more "grown up" version of the show, but sexual situations don't necessrily do the job. However, I do think they are accomplishing their goal of making a "dark" (yeah, overused term) show. The murder of the infant was for me the most powerful scene so far in the series and says so much more than even the destruction of Caprica.

In all, I'm witholding final judgement until the miniseries is shown in its entirety.

jimkirk · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2003, 11:14:50 am »

W odpowiedzi na:

should have read david ferrell's post.

the new bsg is baloney.

Hmmm Me thinks you follow sicilian salomey

WhiteKnight · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2003, 02:51:12 pm »

Is it too much to hope that StarBuck gets killed early in the series?She reminds me of the lead singer of the dixie chicks after an all night drug bender.I don't know if it's the script or her lack of acting ability but,her acting is way over the top and the way they try to portray how tough she is is quit laughable.the onlything that made me sorry about Caprica being nuked was that starbuck wasn't there.AHHH i needed to vent that.the special effects were ok though they reminded me a lot of Space above and Beyond and that was almost ten years ago.I'll have to wait before i condem the show it does seem like it could have potential.Just please kill starbuck off or at the very least get her new writers a makeover and some acting lessons.

ancientangel · « **Reply #8 on:** December 09, 2003, 03:39:22 pm »

Well I started to watch the show lastnight but after being up for 26 hours I must have dozed off after the first commercial.

From what I have seen in previews and acticles about the show it should be intresting as a Sci-fi type show. It will not be the BattleStar Gallitica that we all know and love. It might be something close to it but that is about all.

As for Space Above and Beyond, I really wish they would bring that show back. Or am I the only person that seems to miss it?

Captain Ron · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2003, 09:43:37 pm »

No,
He got killed or actually left behind on a planet in the 1980 series they did that also lasted one season, mostly because it was written worse than the Buck Rogers Series of about the same year.

Fury_of_a_Seraph · « **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2003, 10:11:02 pm »

OMFG...

was that BOOMER as a Cylong Agent?!?!?!?!

This is down the tubes
I had faith, but it's shot now.

Qob'nuH · « **Reply #13 on:** December 09, 2003, 11:55:58 pm »

When can we find someone who isn't out to ruin old classic scifi? Why couldn't they re-do Buck Rogers so no one would care?
Pet-peeves:
Humans created Cylons,wtf????????
A female Cylon who looks human............these guys must have been the ones who bought two tickets to "terminator 3" before writing that in , very original.
Not enough Cylon foot-soldier action,Cylon voices......"by your command" sounds stupid coming from the artificial humans.
The whole gender bender thing...WHY???
My biggest dislike...no Ann Lockhart.
Best point so far......no sign of that robot-dog-thing (Muffy?)

I'll watch it all before the final verdict but so far I'm not impressed.

WhiteKnight · « **Reply #14 on:** December 10, 2003, 01:41:47 am »

I think tonight the show was a little better,but i must agree that it's not reallty BSG.They would have been better off just haveing the show as a stand alone indepentent show with none of the BSG references.With the above complaints and many more i think there is one thing the show does well and that is show the tragic loss of life it is kinda moving at some points.when was the last time you watched the original and were moved to any sort of emotion other than won that cylon blew up good?If they bring back that #$%^^$^% robot dog not only will i hurl I'll go and find the writers and make them wish they were never born.that moffet crap was played out in the 70's i was insulted to see that crap when i was 8yo.Boomers is kinda cute though at least more attractive than the original one

starforce2 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 10, 2003, 02:24:53 am »

soeaking of which, how much stuff did they blow up?

111wallace111 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 10, 2003, 08:11:59 am »

Watched it and liked it. I was able to seperate the original BSG from what this was. Apperently Glen Larson was involved to some degree he was listed as a consulting producer. As far as the Sex stuff goes, If sensorship had not been so wacky back in the seventies we might have gotten a little more of that anyway. One of the main characters was a "socialator"..... Scene with Cassiopia and Starbuck in the launch tube..

I thought the whole "gender Bender" thing was done as well as one could trying to mix up the characters and have reasons for them to act as they did. Most had alot more personality in this show. They all showed that they had human problems and frailalties. Alcoholism. Anti paternal sentiment. War mentality. Arrogance and insanity.

Over all i thought the effects were sone well. For a show like this. There was consistancy with some amount of actual science. Reaction control thusters on fighters, and directional velocity. It showed that they were trying to make some of the stuff believable. I thought it was cool when Apollo turned his ship around and blasted the missle that was chasing him. Seemed to happen more than a few times that a ship flipped over to fire at some one or thing chasing it.

Cool

Azel · « **Reply #18 on:** December 10, 2003, 06:22:01 pm »

I can only say this(after watching it):
BAD Galactica...But AWESOME SciFi

Clark Kent · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2003, 07:45:15 pm »

I've said it before, and I'll say it again- sex in the beginning points of a story is a bad idea. Sex is such an underlying theme in this series that it becomes as laughable as the bad plots and dialogue of the old series. No offense to the old series, it did cowtow to emotions far too much, but the concept was unbelievably amazing. That's what kept me watching through the pilot and the episodes I've seen. Great ideas, great stories, poorly put forth, but not so bad as to take away from the series enough that I wouldn't keep going back to it. Kinda like TOS Star Trek.
If sex was so blazingly opbvious as the theme in the old BSG, I would have hated it too. Don't get me wrong, I know sex sells, and I enjoy my share of cleavage shots and hot chicks in a show, and the occasional indulgance a little farther, but I watch a show for plot, and a good concept, and sex doesn't meet these in the line of a story.
CK

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