View Single Post
Old January 1st, 2005, 08:52 AM   #9
Eric Paddon
Squadron Leader
 
Eric Paddon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Morristown, NJ
Posts: 1,795

Default

Welcome to the discussion!

I have read the novelizations in the past, and actually one reason why I embarked on the adaptations project was because for the most part, I'm really not satisfied with them. The different premise of the Cylons as living creatures rather than robots IMO, actually wasn't as effective particularly by the time we got to WOTG and found out the key revelation in the Iblis-Baltar conversation (a scene which is totally missing in the WOTG novelization it's worth noticing).

That said, I do agree that those novelizations can provide some insights worth building on, and the most helpful one to me was in "Living Legend". The idea of the other commanders being drugged is an interesting premise to explain their sluggish behavior once the battle begins and that may be a better idea than the one I ultimately came up with. which I'll soon touch on when I make a detailed post on the key points of change in my finished version adaptation. (Avaialable at this link: http://www.galacticafanfic.com/stories/sagaadap.txt)
Eric Paddon is offline   Reply With Quote