DPDarkPrimus wrote:So you're saying someone's opinion can't be trollish?
Nope, not when its on-topic in the thread it appears in.
The "original" BSG was so original that they got taken to court for ripping off a sci fi movie you might have heard of.
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Certainly, the lawsuit from Twentieth Century Fox didn't help. Fox sued Universal, claiming that Galactica infringed on the copyrights of Star Wars. This was a ludicrous claim. While Galactica was certainly inspired by Star Wars, Star Wars was inspired by numerous science fiction stories before it. Just as the lawsuit was about to be thrown out, Universal countersued Fox, claiming that Star Wars infringed on Universal's 1972 science fiction film Silent Running. This claim was even more ridiculous than Fox's, and it only served to prolong the lawsuit until August 22, 1980, when the courts finally declared that Galactica was not an infringement on Star Wars.
Maybe you should look up the facts before breaking out the rolly-eyes, eh?
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:What's your opinion based on, though? How much have you seen to make that judgement?
I saw three episodes. But that's not the
point. The original show, which I'm quite fond of, was fucked with in this "re-imagining"to such a degree that it's unrecognizable. I won't watchh the "Starsky and Hutch" movie either, because "Starsky and Hutch" the TV show wasn't a comedy. I will refuse to see "The Six Million Dollar Man" movie starring Jim Carrey for the same reason. I'll once again repost my initial reaction to nBSG at the end of this post.
DrMckay wrote:Well, golly gee, Poe, It's really too bad that you have a problem with the fact that some people like a redone version of a crappy -ghasp-(my opinion,) 70's TV show. The least you could do is to go to the taxing effort of actually watching a couple of new episodes so you can come up with some NEW things you don't like about it.
Why the fuck should I look for
new things to hate about it, when the original bullshit that made me hate it in the first place still exists?
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I like the original series, personally own it, and occasionally get strong desires to watch it again, which I sometimes indulge. But the show is flawed from dramatic and storytelling areas, and was made by people who didn't know a God damn thing about science fiction. But I still like it, it has its nostalgia and charm, but the new series simply blows it out of the water completely and totally.
The old show
didn't need to be "fixed". It was what it was, and plenty of people still enjoy it to this day. I'm sure "Star Wars" can be "re-imagined" to be more xtreeeme to today's anime soaked audiences too. But you wouldn't catch me watching the fucking thing. I might have actually watched nBSG if it wasn't trying to pass itself off as BSG. I doubt I would have hung around anyway, because I get "Space: Above And Beyond" vibes from it, which is another show I didn't like. But I have much more respect for "SAAB" for daring to be original, instead of naming itself after something that was popular and had a following then changing everything that following liked about the original show.
Here's my initial review:
Starbuck is now a short haired hard-as-nails lesbian who can drink the men under the table, kick the men's asses, and out gamble the best of them. Apollo is pissed off at Adama for some reason. Boomer is now a female asian who has an identical twin who is a Cylon. Oh, yes, Cylons are now Fembots, the main one slinking around in a red cocktail dress trying to outdo Seven of Nine from Star Trek on the fanboy boner scale. Oh, and she has a red train of LEDs running down her back. And, she's invisible to everyone but the new Baltar, who's now a mincing pretty boy who talks to himself. The Vipers actually look better than the old show, but Galactica itself looks like the old Galactica if it left spacedock without its outer hull.
I watched the "mini-series", and the first two episodes; "33" and "Water". My dislike of this dreck has only stengthened. Its no longer that they've borrowed a name from a popular 70's scifi show and raped the entire concept, simply to get it on the air. I can't stand the smothering pompous crap that this series is. It is nothing more than long stretches of boring dialogue meant to flesh out characters that are indistinguisible from one another. Then if you're lucky, you're treated to one and a half minutes of special effects footage.
Then you have the baseball bat over-the-head scenes to show the audience how lo-tech the design of everything is, right down to 1970's telephones and 19th century time pieces. I'm waiting to see them shovel coal into the engines as they wink at the camera. All the new show is is a big soap opera. Love story with Boomer 1 and the generic character 1 on Caprica.
Love story with Boomer 2 and generic character 2 on the Galactica. Apollo and StarDyke trading amorous jabs at one another until Moore get his Apollo/Starbuck sex scene. Baltar and Harvey the Invisible Hooker only he can see.
Meanwhile, Baltar is invited into important strategy meetings and talks to himself, but it barely raises an eyebrow on the main characters. The camerawork is the worst of all. To make the show more "hip", they use that idiotic "shaky camera" crap. Its completely intrusive and obvious. Every dialogue exchange looks like the cameraman is on a piece of floatsom on a river.