The UK gets the New Battlestar Galactica series before us!

CeeKay · Post by **CeeKay** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:30 pm

Lucky Brits, looks like they scooped us!

I'm hoping this doesn't effect the ratings the show gets when it airs on Sci-Fi, 'cause you can almost bet the new episodes will be bouncing around the net.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:42 pm

First the gap-toothed limeys try to influence our elections and now this. I think we need to go over there and burn down their Parliment.

War of 1812! NEVER FORGET!!!

Odin · Post by **Odin** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:45 pm

I'm in an unusual position with this show - one I don't think I've ever been in before. I fully expected to hate the mini-series. Edward James Olmos told me I would. He said that fans of the orginal 70's Battlestar Galactica shouldn't watch. I was a huge fan of the 70's version. I was a <10 year-old kid at the time and the cocky, veteran warriors were cool, the gleaming cylons with their roving red eyes were cool, the Battlestar Galactica was cool - I loved it all. I loved the tie-ins to ancient Earth cultures, I loved the nomen warriors with their laser-bolas, I loved Baltar the traitor. The episode where Apollo JUST MISSES receiving a broadcast from Earth of the Apollo 11 moon landing - that rocked. The episode where they find Kobol, and use Adama's brooch of office to open the crypt - that rocked! Caine and the whole Pegasus episode - rocked! Rick Springfield getting blown away in the first few minutes of the pilot episode... one of the colonial senators asks "What was that?" Adama replies, "That, senator, was my son." God that was cool! Sure it had some hokey storylines and goofiness, but I was young enough to overlook it easily and I enjoyed the show so much that I still can.

So add all that up, and I'm clearly on Olmos' list of people who WILL NOT LIKE THE NEW SHOW. Adama and Apollo hate each other? What?? Starbuck's a WOMAN? What?? They fire bullets instead of lasers? What? The cylons look like people? Double-what?? This is gonna suck!

Then I watched it, and I was totally blown away. In my opinion, it was some of the best-written sci-fi in years, right up there with Farscape and Stargate (which I realize I respect more than many). I've probably watched the 4-hour pilot movie upwards of 10 times now, and every time I just marvel at how much better it was than I expected it to be.

And that's the strange part, because I can't think of a single other time when I expected a show to totally suck and was pleasantly surprised when it didn't. Usually, I go in hoping a show will rock and come away disappointed because it was lame.

The fact that the UK gets it first doesn't really bother me - it just means that they'll have more episodes complete (and will hopefully air them for several consecutive weeks without a break) when they get to the US. It also means that the show gets some initial cash-flow that should help keep it viable from a financial perspective. I'm hugely excited about this series and I can't wait until January to watch it.

Sith

Byrns · Post by **Byrns** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:49 pm

The mini series was pretty good, they just shouldn't have called it Battlestar Galactica....

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:51 pm

I'm just bothered because I'm impatient and want to see some eps. I also found the mini-series to be well written and was very satisfied with this break from the original Battlestar Galactica universe.

January will come soon enough I guess...

(still pissed about the English burning down our White House. But they did give us the Daleks so that's a plus)

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:24 pm

siljanus wrote:I'm just bothered because I'm impatient and want to see some eps. I also found the mini-series to be well written and was very satisfied with this break from the original Battlestar Galactica universe.

January will come soon enough I guess...

If you can't wait, BitTorrent is your friend...

Gromit · Post by **Gromit** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:12 pm

Neener-neener!

CeeKay · Post by **CeeKay** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:15 pm

[quote="Sherpa]If you can't wait, BitTorrent is your friend...[/quote]

That's why I'm worried. People will watch the show using that and then when it finally airs in January no one watches it and it tanks in the ratings.

Actually hold on a sec, I could be wrong.... Sci-Fi would never cancel a quality show.....

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:36 pm

CeeKay wrote: That's why I'm worried. People will watch the show using that and then when it finally airs in January no one watches it and it tanks in the ratings.

Maybe, but I don't think there's enough people out there to make that big a dent in its potential ratings -- even considering the (relatively) small number of the total TV audience that watches SciFi.

Head · Post by **Head** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:52 pm

Is it me or didn't the music in the Battlestar Galatica teaser sounded like the music from Homeworld?

~Head

Dirt · Post by **Dirt** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:49 pm

This is NOT Battlestar Galactica.

sgoldj · Post by **sgoldj** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:35 pm

I wonder if someone will update "Battlestar Gastonia -- Looking for a shining planet known as Mecklenburg"

Ok.. It worked if you were in Charlotte, NC in the late 70s- early 80s

I'll be quiet now.

Gedd · Post by **Gedd** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:56 pm

sgoldj wrote:I wonder if someone will update "Battlestar Gastonia -- Looking for a shining planet known as Mecklenburg"

Ok.. It worked if you were in Charlotte, NC in the late 70s- early 80s

I'll be quiet now.

Do tell. I've only been in Charlotte since around '97.