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Offline Don Karnage

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battlestar galactica
« on: December 08, 2004, 10:34:00 am »
i have view 4 episode of the new serie and its just boring,  no action no story just jumping from one point to another, someone put a bomb in the water thanks and no one have see who made it and there no safety in the ship, anyone can go in the water thanks and put a bomb without be see, the wors is there use phone to contact the president and a cruiser ship empty with a nuke inside was going toward them and no one see the problem, a empty cruiser??, and no one have notice it before?, dhan such a stupid show with so much stuff that are wrong since it supose to be 7000 years more advance that earth and the still have glass, still using phone or wire comunication and still using paper and keyboard, in startrek there just around 200 years in the future and yet the no longer have glass, the no longer use paper and the no longer have wire comunication like a phone, the should flush the serie its just stupid and boring. :-[

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Re: battlestar galactica
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2004, 01:14:08 pm »
Geez, I didn't realize the series was in production.
I saw the pilot "movie", the 4 hour thing, they explained why the tech was primative... something to do with the cylons having infected the high tech with viruses.
I really enjoyed the pilot, different from the original, to me that can only be a good thing... watched the original movie again a few years ago, that was painful.
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Re: battlestar galactica
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2004, 04:03:49 pm »
i didn't see any, i know the viper can be consider old for them but there kinda really old tech using a keyboard seem very old even for them, its like startrek enterprise using a radio to contact strafleet,  but the viper having indicator that you will see on a ww2 airplane on a space fighter, if we look at earth 20 years behind the fighter was the f-14 tomcat and its advance copare to the viper (beside having energy weapons) it just stupid and the clothing seem so  late 20th that it look more like the 20th in space for a civilization that should have 7000 years more advance that us well its just a wast of time to show that, the original series is still 100% better compare to that new series, the old tos is after 30 years still good after all the years because of the quality of the story and yet galactica have no story and keep expecting the cylon to strike at a regular time.

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« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2004, 05:36:41 pm »
Honestly, compared to the original, the only things the new series has going for it: I believed the destruction of Caprica a lot more this time around than the last time around.  And the FTL drives, something the orginal was sorely lacking (how do you get to another star system without FTL...just impossible)

Things I am OK with in the new BSG: The Cylons, I like the idea that the Cylons now look and act just like a human would, it was probably the one redeeming quality of Galactica 1980. :shudder:
Vipers: I can live with the "new" Vipers, they look very similar to the old viipers, but I think they should have probably been JUST like the old Vipers.

Things I CAN'T STAND about the new series: Characters, in particular Starbuck, Tigh, Boomer, and Baltar.  The sex changes for Starbuck and Boomer were totally unecessary, and Boomer as a Cylon?! Give me a break.  Baltar was a man with a motive in the first series, many people can't understand why he did what he did.  But it is there, plain and simple, I don't know if that part is cut out of the movie or what, but the deal with the Cylons was his colony was to be spared, and he was to be supreme dictator of the surviving humans.  The Cylons back stabbed him, and he only worked for them because he had no place to go, he was branded a traitor by the council, and would have been killed by the Cylons had he refused.  The original Tigh was a compassionate disciplinarian, he was the liason between the viper pilots and the command crew.  He was easy going, until you stepped out of line.  This Tigh, is a drunk bastard with no regard for anything but his own job.  Yes he can make a hard decision and I respected his character for it, but he is NOT Colonel Tigh.

This series is in production, and from what I've heard, its a dismal flop, rehashing a few of the old stories from the original and coming up with uninspired filler episodes.  Since I havent seen anything beyond the mini series, i'll reserve judgement on the rest of it until then.  The series is being aired at this time on Sky Network in Great Britain, It will be available on Sci Fi in the United States, in early January.
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Re: battlestar galactica
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2004, 07:00:17 pm »
I think they changed the characters so it wouldn't just be a rehash of the original with new special effects.
I do like the new Adama, looks like an old warrior.
They stick to "real" physics too... ships drift even when not under power.. loved the battle scenes. Cylon fighters with integrated cylons... just look nasty.
Hope the Space channel up here picks it up, want to see more.
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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2004, 11:14:23 am »
I watch it every monday and love it. The characters are real, they get a cut one week, they have a scar the next. There is continuity between each episode. The character development is fantastic...they did in 5 episodes what Enterprise and even TNG failed to do in three seasons.
They are low tech for a reason, if they went high tech the cylons could more easily mess things up.....the show has a reason for everything. Granted it is a slow burning show, but it is great. I think it's more of a SCI-FI Drama rather than stariaght SCI-FI.
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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2004, 01:05:41 pm »
That mini series really really sucked.Those characters sucked more than the mini series.  Especially starbuck.  I mean seriously, that character didn't make it through the first series because he sucked so much and they actually managed to make this one even worse.  The captain is good.  Apollo is tolerable.  Boomer is hot, but that's her only redeeming value as a character.  Just terrible, simply terrible.  I hope this one goes by the wayside quickly.
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« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2004, 06:12:24 am »
Are you talking about the two part mini-series or the 13 part series currentl on in the UK?
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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2004, 09:41:27 am »
The mini series.  I didn't realize that the series was already running in the UK.
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Re: battlestar galactica
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2004, 10:19:53 am »
The actual series is very good, and if you give the first 3 or 4 episodes a chance it will grow on you.
I think you have to see it as a seperate show to the original, and take it as it is....I truly think it is better than ENT and VOY. I also think it has the grittiness and realism of DS9.
Even better than Farscape in my view.
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