Re:BSG Fans: the show needs your support
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The pilots’ helmets have a long overhead visor, like the bill of a baseball cap, which is contrived to house the lights that illuminate the actors’ faces for the camera. Logically, though, the glare of these lights inside the visor would blind the pilot, and the long bill would obscure the pilot’s upward field of vision. The design makes little sense.
http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=2075
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And those sidebar lights on those choosey “Egyptian” helmets didn’t serve the same purpose and have the same effect?
I do admit that Ron Moore cliche #112([i]2001 A Space Odyssey style pressure suit helmets)[/i] skidded right by me.
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The three things I like most about the old Battlestar Galactia are the music, the cool looking Cylons, and the interaction between the characters. The new Battlestar Galactica has none of these things.
http://www.galacticablog.com/2003_12_01_battlestar.html
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Points in order;
1. New “Battlestar Galactica” music is awful.
2. The old Cylons Centurions were better, but the biocylons(created for budget reasons in the writing) add a “fifth column” element of political terrorism that I like.
3. Its a different reality matrix, mate. If you can’t see that the new characters interact-especially Olmos and McDonnell, then you are missing the drama right in front of you. Don’t confuse “charisma” for acting; though Grace Park has “charisma” in spades. Now Tricia Helfer who plays Six, the Heifer on the other hand….can one say MOO?
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[quote]Hear! Hear! [/quote]
There! There! 😆
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While we’re on the subject of clothing, the civilian clothes are pretty silly looking as well … So, what, we’re supposed to assume that leisure suits and neckties arose by parallel evolution in two unrelated areas of the galaxy? In a crowd scene, one guy is clearly wearing a denim jacket with “KISS” written on the back in rhinestones. Are we to assume that the KISS Army likewise developed in parallel on two unrelated worlds?
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Anyone who parallels evolves “disco” fashions who reaches Earth would have to be “re-educated” the Chinese way in my opinion.(Shudder)
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The Galactica’s control room, however, looks cheap and cheesy. It’s got large stacks of controls that obviously do nothing, and who’s only purpose is to flop over when the ship gets hit by a missile, or what have you.
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Which piece of cheese er Battlestar were you addressing? 😀
[quote]The music in the show is the worst kind of keyboard-and-drum machine tripe.
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Addressed-see above.
[quote]Cylon fighters basically look like the Batwing from Batman, or a Kilraithi fighter from Wing Commander, or (my choice) a Centauri fighter from Babylon 5, minus the cool purple paintjob.
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The Cylon “goat” has problems I admit-notably its guns would shoot its wings off in the universe we inhabit.
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There is no ‘character’ underneath their bitching, if you understand what I mean.
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Addressed-see above.
[quote]Anyway, Olmos … His character is not particularly smart, nor likeable, nor gruff, nor nothing, he’s just this boring old guy who whispers too much and has really bad skin.
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Obviously I regard this as a superficial analysis of the character of “William Adama” See my review of “The Hand of God” for details.
[quote]It’s not about Science Fiction, because SF is fundamentally a genre of ideas, and there’s not one single new goddamn idea in this 240 minute waste of time and money.
http://www.mahatmarandy.com/reviews/BGRemake.htm
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Aw (expletive deleted) bias! Don’t you just love it! Points in order again.
1. It is about the social order of an advanced society under the threat of terror and political stress while recovering from a shattering event. The aftereffects of Genocide, plus labratting by a superior enemy isn’t science fiction?
2. Old ideas; new approach? See the [i]Iliad [/i] and the [i]Aeneid [/i] for details, chum.
3. If it sells soap then in the universe in which I live, it isn’t a waste of time and money! Something has to pay for the actors and sets!
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[quote]Those are all good points! [/quote]
I suppose, but I HATE sour grapes. I prefer to drink my wine, and save my vinegar for tossed salads. 🙂
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[quote]Well, it seems that some old fans are just disappointed with how the new series turned out, as well as scifi fans that don’t like the “adult” take on scifi.[/quote]
On THAT I absolutely agree! 😀