Scifi's Battlestar Galactica
Dec. 8th, 2003 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournWow, it's like The Day After meets Space: Above and Beyond. Damn. Very cool, but dark as crap. I always thought the original series was a little fluffy for dealing with survivors of the destruction of 12 worlds, but this one is seriously harsh.
I fickin' love that the vipers shoot bullets and the "solid-state" being immune to the cylons influence is very cool. Hell, Richard Hatch may want to do 'his' version of Bstar--it's a shame he didn't get a chance to do it 20 years ago--, but I'm not interested in seeing Apollo and Starbuck hanging out at the old-folks home... Give me butch angrygrrl Starbuck any day!
I do find it ironic given the sponsors: Life insurance (natch), AOL (very much like a nuclear winter), and diamond sales (I'm thinking they have no clue about the content of the movie and just figured geeks would be watching it "geeks have money and chicks they have to impress somehow").
Update: First part was pretty good. The action sequences were very much "warfilm" quality and I think they did a good job of what they set out to do. It is definitely not 'true' to the original series, but frankly the original series was more 'wagon-train in space' than anything else. This was much more of a military flick, which frankly it really should be. It wouldn't suck if they made it into a series, but then again I was a huge Space: Above and Beyond fan...
And for the record, all the 'firefighter' stuff is definitely true to the original. There was an entire episode that turned the Galactica into Towering Inferno...
I fickin' love that the vipers shoot bullets and the "solid-state" being immune to the cylons influence is very cool. Hell, Richard Hatch may want to do 'his' version of Bstar--it's a shame he didn't get a chance to do it 20 years ago--, but I'm not interested in seeing Apollo and Starbuck hanging out at the old-folks home... Give me butch angrygrrl Starbuck any day!
I do find it ironic given the sponsors: Life insurance (natch), AOL (very much like a nuclear winter), and diamond sales (I'm thinking they have no clue about the content of the movie and just figured geeks would be watching it "geeks have money and chicks they have to impress somehow").
Update: First part was pretty good. The action sequences were very much "warfilm" quality and I think they did a good job of what they set out to do. It is definitely not 'true' to the original series, but frankly the original series was more 'wagon-train in space' than anything else. This was much more of a military flick, which frankly it really should be. It wouldn't suck if they made it into a series, but then again I was a huge Space: Above and Beyond fan...
And for the record, all the 'firefighter' stuff is definitely true to the original. There was an entire episode that turned the Galactica into Towering Inferno...
