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January 4th, 2003, 02:14 PM
I've joined this board because I have just read the script for the "New" Battlestar Galactica, and I am in shock.
I've enjoyed Galactica since I was in Grade 3 watching the episodes on ABC, buying the Beta casettes and eventually the VHS tapes thru the years. I played with the Mattell toys, and read the comics and novels . I tell this to summarize that I have thouroughly enjoyed the show growing up, and remember it fondly in my adulthood!
I cannot believe what I have just read: the Ron Moore script! Ladies and Gentlemen, this remake is disgraseful and disrespectful in every way. I am stunned by it's vulgarity, joylessness,and immorality. This is NOT Battlestar Galactica. The symbols are there, the dialogue contains reminders of of what once was, but, my god, what a slap in the face to those who enjoyed and invested time in the old seried and said to themselves, "boy, I wish Battlestar Galactica would come back"!
To wait 25 or so years for new Galactica to get this?! This is a product of a scriptwriter immersed in the immorality, isolation, ego,negativity, and meanness of Hollywood! There is no heroism, mysticism,coolness in that "70's laidbackness" that made Galactica fun to kick back with. Dirk Benedict made Starbuck the most popular character amoung us kids once, now he's a SHE, and a bitter, foul she she is!
I am quite disheartened right now: what if Some Hollywood hack rerote STAR WARS and made Han Solo a Girl, Had the Millinium Falcon a mothballed museum, re-named Chewbacca, "William Chewbacca", and so on....?
Ron Moore has spat on the memory of Galactica . It's heartbreaking. Another childhood memory exploited and ruined by the Hollywood machine.
I've never bought the comment that Galactica was a "rip-off" of Star Wars. Aside from the Vipers looking like the X-Wings, Galactica was always cooler to me! (the vipers were cooler, too) I'd like to go on record that there was nothing wrong with Muffy either-the Daggit is one of the most endearing and enduring images of the show.
I hope Ron Moore enjoys those cheques he'll be cashing on destroying a good thing for the gratification of his ego. I wonder if he's proud of the scene of the Cylon/human sex?
I've enjoyed Galactica since I was in Grade 3 watching the episodes on ABC, buying the Beta casettes and eventually the VHS tapes thru the years. I played with the Mattell toys, and read the comics and novels . I tell this to summarize that I have thouroughly enjoyed the show growing up, and remember it fondly in my adulthood!
I cannot believe what I have just read: the Ron Moore script! Ladies and Gentlemen, this remake is disgraseful and disrespectful in every way. I am stunned by it's vulgarity, joylessness,and immorality. This is NOT Battlestar Galactica. The symbols are there, the dialogue contains reminders of of what once was, but, my god, what a slap in the face to those who enjoyed and invested time in the old seried and said to themselves, "boy, I wish Battlestar Galactica would come back"!
To wait 25 or so years for new Galactica to get this?! This is a product of a scriptwriter immersed in the immorality, isolation, ego,negativity, and meanness of Hollywood! There is no heroism, mysticism,coolness in that "70's laidbackness" that made Galactica fun to kick back with. Dirk Benedict made Starbuck the most popular character amoung us kids once, now he's a SHE, and a bitter, foul she she is!
I am quite disheartened right now: what if Some Hollywood hack rerote STAR WARS and made Han Solo a Girl, Had the Millinium Falcon a mothballed museum, re-named Chewbacca, "William Chewbacca", and so on....?
Ron Moore has spat on the memory of Galactica . It's heartbreaking. Another childhood memory exploited and ruined by the Hollywood machine.
I've never bought the comment that Galactica was a "rip-off" of Star Wars. Aside from the Vipers looking like the X-Wings, Galactica was always cooler to me! (the vipers were cooler, too) I'd like to go on record that there was nothing wrong with Muffy either-the Daggit is one of the most endearing and enduring images of the show.
I hope Ron Moore enjoys those cheques he'll be cashing on destroying a good thing for the gratification of his ego. I wonder if he's proud of the scene of the Cylon/human sex?