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RE: Galactica - 2/6/2005 2:33:29 PM

Suleiman

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Besides, the old BG ended up back on Earth and once they did that it seemed like the effects became an afterthought. The old show lost me once they made it to earth (although i will admit to wanting one of those flying motorcycles).

Ugh. I try very hard not to remember BG1980. It was a crappy-ass spinoff with piss-poor writing and no fx budget, aimed at a younger target audience. Thankfully, my parents also have gone through "kill your TV" phases, and so I was spared being exposed to that when I was young and impressionable.

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I laughed outright when you compared it to Bladerunner. I can certainly see the parallels. But I have no problem with it being BG. The notion of AI rebelling against their creators isn't new but there does seem to be a resurgence of it as storyline in recent years (in the genre).

I really liked the old cylons. There was actually a solid backstory for why they were the way they were. It was still basically an AI rebellion, but their creaters wer actually a race of hexapedal reptillians. The "Imperious leader" character you see a couple of times in the first few episodes of BG classic is an android, originally meant to be a household servant. The cylon warriors were designed as bipeds because the original creator race decided that this was the best combination of utility and cost-effectiveness. They have no installed weapons or the like because the cylons were built as a universal laborer, warrior, and servant. It was simpler to manufacture tools that any cylon could be programmed to use, than to build usuform robots that were too specialized to be put to any other task. When the cylons rebelled, it was the household servants who came up with the idea, having been made too much like their creators. The cylons enslave other races to serve them, rather than building machines for the same purpose, because the androids wanted to be masters, rather than simply desiring freedom.

Gee... can you tell I still have my tattered old copy of the "Encyclopedia Galactica"?

Objections aside, I like the new version, when taken on its old merits. I only get cranky when I sit around comparing it to the original, hence, my wish that they didn't call the new show battlestar galactica.

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RE: Galactica - 2/7/2005 12:56:42 PM

Pavel

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I'm a bit too young to have dealt with the original Battlestar Galatica, although I am guilty of watching some of it a while back on scifi.
The old school cylons were kind of silly though, it took them half an hour to say anything, and that always drove me nuts (by....your...command...). And did they really need three of those guys flying the fighters? Still it was decent enough watching considering some of whatelse was on at the time.

I do like the new one though. It's got enough action to keep me from getting bored, but enough character interation to stop the "hey I'm watching a video game" feeling. I'll have to wait and see if it doesn't fall into the trap of increasingly weird twists or reused story lines.

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