Battlestar Galactica Review

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » 2003-12-08 01:04pm

Found on Yahoo News

This was almost enough to make me lose all hope...

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-12-08 01:07pm

Oh god...WORSE than what I imagined. Again WHY call this Battlestar Galactica when it is so obviously not. Would this crap be getting this kind of attention if not for the name?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-12-08 01:09pm

Ergh...what the hell is this doing with BG's title in front of it?

I mean it sounds like plots of both Terminator mixed Blade Runner....poorly.

That and the new Starbuck is a wee too butch for me.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-12-08 01:11pm

Bravo bravo they totaly destroyed a franchise.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-12-08 01:12pm

It doesn't sound totally suck ass but it's leaning that way.

They should have just gone with something like Richard Hatch's first book.

By the way, I thought it interesting that in TV Guide Edward James Olmos said that he wouldn't have taken the role if he had know about the fan controversy over the changes done to the show.

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2003-12-08 03:06pm

I'm not gonna judge until I see it.

Smiling Bandit · Post by **Smiling Bandit** » 2003-12-08 03:17pm

TO be honest with you, the original can never be remade, because it would suck horrifically. And just as honestly, the sex of the actor/tress Starbuck is unimportant.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2003-12-08 03:23pm

People make up your own minds, don't let others decide for you.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-12-08 05:13pm

I read this review which was just sad. I'm going to watch it tonight, just to evaluate it with my own eyes.

Cosmic Average · Post by **Cosmic Average** » 2003-12-08 05:36pm

I think it sounds cool.

Rightous Fist Of Heaven · Post by **Rightous Fist Of Heaven** » 2003-12-08 06:27pm

Evaluate it yourself, dont listen to critics. I gave up listening to other people about stuff like this years ago. I've found out that the best way is to form up your own opinions. Hell, several movies which have gotten rather shitty reviews i have found mildly entertaining and even very good sometimes.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2003-12-08 06:35pm

Cosmic Average wrote:I think it sounds cool.

Only in the sense that it should be safely disposed of deep beneath a polar icecap...

And even that's a ticking timebomb, until some future iteration of ourselves discovers it, and starts dfeveloping time travel to come back and wipe us all out.

It sounds fucking stupid (or, from the reviews, should that be stupid fucking?)

Sam Or I · Post by **Sam Or I** » 2003-12-08 06:41pm

I plan to watch it tonight, but I hope it is not as bad as they make it sound. Battlestar Galactica has some great potenial (that it never fully lived upto), but by the sounds of it, they are taking the original concept and twisting it to something unregonizable. Human should not have made the cylons, the cylons should not look like humans, much less have sex with them (The ultimate real doll?????). Well I will watch the show tonight, but my hope for it is dwindling very fast.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-12-08 06:45pm

Rightous Fist Of Heaven wrote:Evaluate it yourself, dont listen to critics. I gave up listening to other people about stuff like this years ago. I've found out that the best way is to form up your own opinions. Hell, several movies which have gotten rather shitty reviews i have found mildly entertaining and even very good sometimes.

Would that include Matrix Revolutions?

Sam Or I · Post by **Sam Or I** » 2003-12-08 06:48pm

I am looking at the Battlestar Galactica game, and it looks good !!! (what the miniseries SHOULD have been) Its looks like a prequel to the Original series. Very intresting.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-12-08 06:51pm

Eh. I've seen episodes of the original, and they were pretty bad. I don't have cable, so I can't watch this, but it sounds poor simply because its a poor concept, not because its changed from the original in anyway.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2003-12-08 07:18pm

Stravo wrote:
Rightous Fist Of Heaven wrote:Evaluate it yourself, dont listen to critics. I gave up listening to other people about stuff like this years ago. I've found out that the best way is to form up your own opinions. Hell, several movies which have gotten rather shitty reviews i have found mildly entertaining and even very good sometimes.
Would that include Matrix Revolutions?

Probably not but that still doesn't mean you should not see a movie based off the critics opinions of it.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-12-08 07:23pm

Kamakazie Sith wrote:
Stravo wrote:
Rightous Fist Of Heaven wrote:Evaluate it yourself, dont listen to critics. I gave up listening to other people about stuff like this years ago. I've found out that the best way is to form up your own opinions. Hell, several movies which have gotten rather shitty reviews i have found mildly entertaining and even very good sometimes.
Would that include Matrix Revolutions?
Probably not but that still doesn't mean you should not see a movie based off the critics opinions of it.

How about making your own decision by looking at a making of and trailers? I've watched them both and was horrified by what I saw. I don't need to waste 4 hours of my life when the promotional material that is put together expressly for the purpose of making me like it repluses me.

I agree that you should not listen to just the critics, but if you yourself watch the trailers and go "this is going to blow." then the decision is made and people are free to voice their opinions. If the tide of opinions is decidedly negative I think people should think twice. But then again this is TV so its not like you're paying ten bucks to sit in a theater.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-12-08 07:24pm

Wow, AI being created by humans who lose control of them and began fighting each other? Man, what originality. I think the lots of sex part is really going to give this series fine quality.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-12-08 07:25pm

Sam Or I wrote:I am looking at the Battlestar Galactica game, and it looks good !!! (what the miniseries SHOULD have been) Its looks like a prequel to the Original series. Very intresting.

Game Revolution gave it ~C, I think. Said it was pretty mediocre overall.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-12-08 07:27pm

Here is a review where the creators say their primary inspiration was 9/11. Fuck me

Also one of the Cylons is described as "sex starved"

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-12-08 07:34pm

Hey, let's not jump to conclusions. Do you remember when the Nemesis script was released and everybody said it was horribly stupid, and ... oh yeah, they were completely right. OK, maybe we should jump to conclusions.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2003-12-08 07:44pm

The promo "documentary" SciFi's been running really put a bad taste in my mouth about this project. Granted, the original was nothing much to begin with but at least is good popcorn entertainment and worth an MST for the truly lame episodes. This thing masquerading as BG seems to be oh-so-full of itself. I forsee a lot of pseudo-moralising as a running thread through the whole run ladled with large doses of puerile titilation for the horny teen demographic.

And one of the big distinctions between the original and the remake? In the original, Baltar betrays humanity because he can't get power. In the remake, Baltar betrays humanity because he can't keep his trousers zipped.

Pathetic.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-12-08 07:47pm

Patrick Degan wrote:And one of the big distinctions between the original and the remake? In the original, Baltar betrays humanity because he can't get power. In the remake, Baltar betrays humanity because he can't keep his trousers zipped.

Pathetic.

God, that's really stupid. It's like the executives have been thinking, "let's see just how bad of a bitter taste we can put in the fans' mouths before the premiere."

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2003-12-08 10:35pm

Hmm... First hour down and the action is flowing like cement.

Who'dve thought armageddon could be so deadly dull?