The Big G 2003?

[jjrakman]

From the Skiffy Flash video game available on their website. Thamks to Mr. Vicchio of CA.

[jjrakman]

What is this thing? It looks like the ship from Quark.

[jeditemple]

Looks like a shuttle from Star Trek...

[thomas7g]

That's definitely not the Galactica Zoic built.

Imagiine if the old G and Moya from farscape had starship sex. That's the best I can really do. :D

[thomas7g]

it really does look like thishttp://home.socal.rr.com/megazone/schematic-topandside.jpg

[amberstar]

I don't think I could get used to the smooth lines of that thing.
Looks too much like our present day space shuttles, only a little larger.:confused:

[jewels]

Originally posted by conundrum7g
That's definitely not the Galactica Zoic built.

Imagiine if the old G and Moya from farscape had starship sex. That's the best I can really do. :D

OK, my description of a family of armadillos (sans heads and tails) is less scary than that! :laugh:

I always though Moya and the ship from Andromeda were cousins....:D

[thomas7g]

I always thought andromeda while looking neat was waay too smooth. It looked small.

Tommy like old g. It look BIG. It look pretty. I like the aligator on skis look. :D

[kingfish]

http://pp303.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=TheWord&action=display&num=1068258804

[dru]

Well, I'm thankful it won't be the "original" ship. I think this rendition is ugly as hell with all those "ribs" and looks like it was patched together with scraps of metal on Junkyard Wars! Somehow that's appropriate for the mini, don't you think? :P

Here's the link: http://www.subspacebbs.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17005

[kingfish]

http://pp303.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=brawl&action=display&num=1068303471

[dru]

Originally posted by kingfish
http://pp303.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=brawl&action=display&num=1068303471

I think it's interesting people seem to think those are nacelles a la Star Trek when on the original ship they were the landing and launch bays.

[shiningstar]

It is pretty pityful!

And the model of the Galactica shown on the links posted looks like a dead fish.

My six year old autistic child could probably do better then that garbage!

[Last Battlestar]

That new Galactica design just makes me damn angry!

The old girl looked so cool.....:(

Mike

[WXM]

The age of being under-whelmed

When Alien was first released it was shown in a good number of theaters in 70mm. A couple of weeks ago I saw the new release of it in a new theater. It was presented in digital projection; was obviously digital projection. If you wanted to give someone a headache, just force them to watch the end credits of that screening. I was amazed at how inferior it was to the sometimes scratchy, marked-up 35mm film prints I'm used to. I bring this up because, well, what's up with all the technological "advances" taking things back instead of forward? I remember the opening credits sequence of Alien always gave me chills, putting you there floating in space above that creepy planet's silhouette as the titles appear. This time, I felt like I was watching someone's projection TV, visible jaggies on every letter that happened to have diagonals to it. Why does paying full admission price for watching Alien in a brand new theater in 2003 give you a picture with one-tenth the resolution of what they offered back in 1979? You don't get dust and cue marks with digital, no, but I rather keep those along with that fantastic "get lost in it" resolution and deep light-dark ratio than be given what I got two weeks ago. They should wait till they can match 70mm's resolution before converting everything over to digital. (Though I doubt they will.)

And this new BG design/look/result...it's the same thing: a big step backwards, not forwards, at least in my opinion. The original ship (model) left you wanting to get closer, to see more and more detail because there was so much of it, all very well-done. Even seeing just one section of surface gave you a great sense of scale. Even if the windows weren't lit (the biggest cue to scale) you could still still tell how very big the ship because of a variety of skillfully implemented visual cues. Some people didn't see BG theatrically, on the big screen, but I did and I believe it (the ship) holds up very well projected onto a screen as large as the side of a building. This new ship, though, at least so far...simply, there's no draw to it; I'm not interested in seeing more of it or getting closer to it. Boy, I miss the days of sci-ships where you could get drawn into the film's/show's universe almost solely from looking at one of the ships (Star Destroyers, Nostromo, The Battlestar Galactica, and more recently [though less 'cool' to me than the others] the Rodger Young from Starship Troopers). This new BG ship is definitely not in that league.

I suppose it's not fair to compare a made-for-cable model to one made by a legendary motion picture effects team...but the original show was a quarter century ago--so, again, shouldn't the great amount of time between then and now as far as "technological advances" go have led to at least an equal offering in the mini's centerpiece despite the current folks having fewer resources than the original effects team? This image (posted up at BronzeSpearSqdrn) is surely a rough/preliminary render so maybe I'm being too harsh too soon...but I will say this image had better be a Commodore64 rendering relatively speaking to the final if they want to have a chance in hell of matching the awe that the original Battlestar Galactica's presence evoked...at least for me.

[Hito]

I rather like the overall shape of the new ship.
A lot more than i thought i would from the diagrams in the bridge set QTVR anyway.
After seeing the new images of it some of my intrest in the new show was resparked.

Even tho I did prefer the more chaotic nernie detailing of the original to the more "streamlined" approach, the ribbed/plated look that Eric went with is very very cool.

[jewels]

Hito!!! ((((((hug))))))

Just wanted you to know you were missed. :)