I really enjoyed the 2004 BSG series emake. It gets a little hokey and weird in places, like the writers painted themselves into a corner and had to figure out where to go, and the ending is a little depressing, but not unexpected. I did like the grittiness of it all, the parallels with real-world carrier deployments, and the fact that they didn’t try to explain everything scientifically. Star Trek’s rigorous approach to science and timelines is neat, but gets hard to reconcile with all the spinoffs. The fact that they basically said “F it” with the latest remake is what made it fun to watch in its own right, the first one anyway. Not so sure about “Into Darkness”…
Which leads me to my favorite Star Trek ever… Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan- hands down. It’s also the most shamelessly re-made movie in Star Trek history with “Nemesis” and “Into Darkness” stealing large elements of it (former), or just the whole damn storyline (latter).
Also hated that Starbuck was recast as a female. I don’t mind female characters, there were quite a few in the original BSG, I just wish they would have cast her as a new character.
And as much as I liked looking at Tricia Helfer, the whole “cylon in my mind” of Baltar mostly just annoyed me. Also hated President Roslin and apparently I’m not the only one.
I also wasn’t crazy about the uniforms in the 2004 series, nothing will ever top this for cool.
And of course now they actually make faithful copies, where was that when I was 12? I’m just not nerd enough to buy one in adult size and wear it…ever. But I’d have worn that everywhere as a kid.
ST.PAUL, Minn. Aug. 25, 1979 (AP) – The parents of a 15-year-old boy who jumped 200 feet to his death from a bridge after Battlestar Galactica was canceled say the boy’s whole life was wrapped up in the television space show.
I thought the original BSG was a blatant Star Wars ripoff, right down to the fact that the good guy ships resembled X-wing fighters and the bad guy ships had to look like something other than airplanes.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, they tried to salvage it with Galactica 1980 and it DID become worse.
The new BSG series mostly redeemed the concept, though, and was everything I wish the original had been.
The new BSG was good, for a few seasons at least, but when it went bad, it went bad, hard. The ending was probably one of the worst on TV, at least considering how great it had previously been.
And the 6 in Baltar’s mind wasn’t limited to just Baltar. And that’s all the more I’m going to say about that unless we’re going to be talking potential spoilers. Although we are talking about a show that’s last new episode aired in 2009, so…
Yeah, I get that the 6 wasn’t just his imagination. I just wanted my big clunky toaster cylons back. The show took some really weird deviations in the middle and I got sick of the blatant “wtf’s.”
