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Old October 11th, 2004, 02:35 PM   #1
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Old October 11th, 2004, 02:53 PM   #2
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Here is a writer who did no research before he wrote this.

Unloved, mayfly existence? My lilly-white.....



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Old October 11th, 2004, 03:06 PM   #3
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You said it. Where do they find these writers? I doubt Larson would have wanted his show to be like the Moore series.
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Old October 11th, 2004, 04:40 PM   #4
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No one mourns for Battlestar Galactica. Even the most dyed-in-the-anorak sci-fi nut, the sort who can name everyone who ever played a Silurian in Doctor Who or recite the mantra of the Sapphire and Steel title sequence (altogether now, "transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life") feels little regret at its mayfly existence. Which makes it all the more surprising that the series has been revived. And by people who take it terribly, terribly seriously


I read the entire article and came to the conclusion that this guy is obviously ANTI Sci Fi. He even slamed Lucas' SW.
I agree Dawg ........he didn't do his homework ......... Cause we are all here if he just looked.


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Old October 11th, 2004, 04:57 PM   #5
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I read the entire article and came to the conclusion that this guy is obviously ANTI Sci Fi. He even slamed Lucas' SW.
I agree Dawg ........he didn't do his homework ......... Cause we are all here if he just looked.


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Old October 11th, 2004, 07:15 PM   #6
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That article was so poorly written and researched, it wasn't worth the keystrokes it took to write it! I feel sorry for the poor sod that paid a hack like that for an article....

Not even worth thinking about, much less getting worked up over!

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Old October 11th, 2004, 08:34 PM   #7
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Rude, petty and full of errors not worth the read.
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Old October 11th, 2004, 08:42 PM   #8
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Well, I couldn't listen -- had to read it. What a colossal waste of time. Probably some young, know-it-all punk, who thinks he's a wit!

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Old October 12th, 2004, 02:01 AM   #9
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My response to certain parts of this article:

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"No one mourns for Battlestar Galactica. Even the most dyed-in-the-anorak sci-fi nut, the sort who can name everyone who ever played a Silurian in Doctor Who or recite the mantra of the Sapphire and Steel title sequence (altogether now, "transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life") feels little regret at its mayfly existence. Which makes it all the more surprising that the series has been revived. And by people who take it terribly, terribly seriously."

Martok: This pa'taH definitely has a beef with Science Fantasy folk. (Trust me folks, I made a Klingon insult.)
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"Dreary, derivative, unloved Battlestar Galactica has been transformed into a stark and melancholy work of dystopian science fiction - television that's as good as anything currently being imported from the American networks."

Martok: What rock did this guy crawl out from under?! I STRONGLY disagree with his first few words in that first sentence!!! But I do agree with the rest of it.
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"Everything that was naff and embarrassing about the original series has been jettisoned. Muffy the cyborg panda has been blasted into space, along with his owner, a not-conspicuously-cute child named Boxey. Patrick MacNee no longer supplies the voice of the Imperious Leader. (The Imperious Leader, in fact, is nowhere to be seen.) The Cylons remain shiny robots - but some of them have taken human form, their metallic colleagues no longer have a glowing game of Pong going on in their face-visors, and you'd now need more than a kazoo and a clothes peg to replicate their voices."

Martok: Yep....this guy needs a short drop and a sudden stop!
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" Muffy the cyborg panda has been blasted into space, along with his owner, a not-conspicuously-cute child named Boxey."

Martok: He is only partially correct. (Obviously overlooked some stuff.) As there is a Boxey in the new Galactica (sans Muffit), and this Boxey looks like a slightly older original Boxey with the same haircut.
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"But it's the mood of the piece that has undergone the most radical transformation. The production reeks of dirty realism: under attack from the Cylons, the human characters are sweaty, dishevelled and sleep-deprived. They pop pills to stay awake, they hallucinate, they mumble and stumble over their lines, they eat messy mouthfuls of microwaved noodles. The camerawork is of the hand-held, verité variety: even in the shots of dogfights between spaceships, the image dips and judders as if you're watching news footage from some war beyond the solar system. The production design is refreshingly retro: in this take on the future of humanity, people still wear neckties and shirts with collars and use safety razors, felt-tip pens and telephones with cords. The music isn't the customary John Williams or Night on Bare Mountain pastiche - it's mainly vocal, and distinctly Middle Eastern. Even the laws of physics have been paid attention: spacecraft explode with muffled thuds, not the usual ka-booms that, in the real world, the vacuum of space would render impossible."


Martok: Nice for a different version of Galactica. It reflects what should've been portrayed when you have the last survivors of humanity crammed into any spacecraft (questionable or not) that can carry them.
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"And the atmosphere is magnificently downbeat and depressing. The president of Earth (Mary McDonnell, from Donnie Darko) keeps a tally of the surviving members of the human race, rubbing out and correcting the figure every time her rag-tag fleet sustains another alien bombardment. The refugees from Earth maintain a chapel of remembrance for their fallen comrades - walls of photographs and written messages, modelled upon the memory boards that sprang up around Ground Zero. On-screen captions keep you informed of how many hours the crew has been forced to do without sleep. It's a story of the human race, routed by the monsters, on the run and pushed to the limits of exhaustion. It's light-years away from the smooth, corporate world of Star Trek: Captain Picard wouldn't last half an hour on the bridge of the new Battlestar Galactica."

Martok: Sounds like he at least has a grasp of the concept of the new Galactica.
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"How could such dodgy original material have yielded something so satisfyingly grim? The answer, according to the producers, is that this is the series that Glen A Larson would have made, had its backers, NBC, not insisted on something more simplistic and light-hearted. It's hard to measure the truth of the assertion: perhaps those with an intimate knowledge of the Book of Mormon are best qualified to make the judgement."

Martok: Definitely slipped up here. I will agree that (IMHO) Mr. Larson did want something that reflected more of what a story of this type should portray. (But it was ABC, Nimrod, not NBC)
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"George Lucas is now in the thick of post-production on the sixth - and hopefully final - instalment of the Star Wars saga. Revenge of the Sith will lumber into multiplexes next spring, by which time the new series of Battlestar Galactica ought to be coming out on DVD. The television series was once the shadow of the movie franchise; fag to its head prefect; Little and Large to its Morcambe and Wise. Now it has outgrown its inspiration. Next year, it may give George Lucas something to fill his empty afternoons"

Martok: I am agreed with everyone here...this guy does need to lighten up.
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He speaks favorably of the new show, but does so greatly at the expense of the original show that he seemed to have serious problems with, and at the expense of the fans who LOVED that show...myself included.

Get a clue there, Perry White! The orignal show was VERY BELOVED! So sorry that you had a problem with the way the show turned out....but you know what, as kids WE DIDN'T FRACKING CARE! We loved it!

It is because of people like you that I cannot respect some sci-fi fans. You may defend a show that I might come to like....but you are attacking the very show that spawned it! And you are attacking a show that I LOVED!!!

Do your research more properly! Get your facts straight about Galactica and its fans!

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Please, Martok. Waste all the firepower you like!
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Old October 12th, 2004, 05:48 AM   #11
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I emailed them and complained about the article and suggested that maybe they should find writers that actually research the material they are writing about. Shame on them

Oh yer, I made a list of BG fan sites and also sent a link to CFF !
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Old October 12th, 2004, 10:47 AM   #12
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It's too bad some people need to attack something from the past in order to made something from today look better.

The article writer is obviously ignorant about scifi in general and Battlestar Galactica in particular in the 1970s.
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