Battlestar Galactica Review
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Battlestar Galactica Review
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"This is not bad; this is a conspiracy to remove happiness from existence. It seeks to wrap its hedgehog hand around the still beating heart of the personification of good and squeeze until it is stilled."
-- Chuck Sonnenburg on Voyager's "Elogium"
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?
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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I read this review which was just sad. I'm going to watch it tonight, just to evaluate it with my own eyes.
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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.
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Only in the sense that it should be safely disposed of deep beneath a polar icecap...Cosmic Average wrote:I think it sounds cool.
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?)
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.
Would that include Matrix Revolutions?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.
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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.
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Probably not but that still doesn't mean you should not see a movie based off the critics opinions of it.Stravo wrote:Would that include Matrix Revolutions?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.
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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.Kamakazie Sith wrote:Probably not but that still doesn't mean you should not see a movie based off the critics opinions of it.Stravo wrote:Would that include Matrix Revolutions?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.
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.
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Game Revolution gave it ~C, I think. Said it was pretty mediocre overall.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.
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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"
Also one of the Cylons is described as "sex starved"
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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.
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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.
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.
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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 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.
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Hmm... First hour down and the action is flowing like cement.
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