WTF - Another BSG Reboot?!

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  1. Aurora

    Aurora VincerĂ²!

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    Not much information yet but it seems that BSG will get yet another iteration. This reads like they will ignore Ron Moore's series and start all over again on the silver screen.

    I have a bad feeling about this. A robot dog & Boxey feeling. I'd say recut a few episodes for less boredom and religious wank and you've got a series for the ages. Oh, and make THE PLAN unhappen. That was kind of very pointless.
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  2. We Are Borg

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  3. Dayton Kitchens

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    I'm looking forward to this if it actually comes about. Anything to get the foul taste of the reimagined BG out of my mouth.
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    It'll have more space battles!
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  5. The Prussian Mafia

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    Ron Moore's BSG was incredible. The ending might have been a bit off but do any shows end well anymore?

    But really, the way nuBSG ended was almost cyclical so why not just go from there?
  6. K.

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    nuBSG's ending was pitch-perfect in every way. It is a large part of what makes this excellent show transcendent. Anyone who cannot see this self-evident truth needs to be banned post haste and never mentioned again. :bailey:
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  7. Dayton Kitchens

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    I hated nuBSG. Expressing that hatred is what got my first long term (one year) banning from the TrekBBS.
  8. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

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    I was very impressed with Fred Armisen's cooperative effort with Ron Moore on the extra episode they did... what was it, last year?
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    It was probably you saying something like:

    You wanted to troll and harass the fans of the show in an effort to drive them away from it to hurt the show itself. It's pretty much the moment I realized how loathesome you are and nothing you say has no value whatsoever.

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    As far as RDMs version, it was ALMOST perfect. It just tended to be tiring and wear you down because there was no happiness allowed EVER. If there was a moment of happiness you knew something really shitty was about to happen. Like the celebration in the hanger bay where most of the pilots were killed when a bomb fell off of a rack.
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  10. mburtonk

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    I think some things just work better for television than movies. A long story of survival works on TV because it lets you have character development and multiple scenarios for things to happen. What are they going to do in a movie, get attacked by cylons and then win the war, all at once?
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  11. Diacanu

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    Breaking Bad.
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  12. Archangel

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    I'm not sure, I wasn't overly crazy about BBs ending. It was good, but more or less the only way it could end. Of course, I enjoyed the show but never had the psychotic level of fanboyism many of it's fans have.
  13. Dayton Kitchens

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    I wouldn't call it trolling. I called it "trying to destroy people's enjoyment of the show so it will fail and perhaps they'll make a show I like"

    Which seems like a reasonable thing to do.
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    How is that reasonable? Why is it all about YOU? Why can't you let other people enjoy what they will? How does that impact you at all? Troll!
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  15. Diacanu

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    Yes, and that's the textbook definition of a psychopath.
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  16. Dayton Kitchens

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    If something becomes popular that is similar to something I like but I do not like it (such as the new Trek movies of course) then that "similar product" will crowd out what I like to watch.

    As long as Abramstrek is produced, they will not make a Star Trek movie series that I might like. Similar with nuBG.

    If new Star Trek movies and a new BG series were being made that I liked, they could make all the other ones to their hearts content and I would have no problem with it.
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    I like the potential and don't think it takes anything away from NuBSG
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    Here's an idea, we don't make this thread about Dayton and fall for his lame trolling.

    So, about this new BSG. I personally have no problem with remakes of any shows* It may be better than the original or it may be worse, in either case you haven't lost the original.

    *I do dislike it when they take a show and change it's genre. For example taking a drama like 21 Jump Street and turning it into a comedy.
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  19. Aurora

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    yes some stories work better as a TV series. however, i wish they'd rather make 12-episode seasons than 20+ for most. BSG could have used some trimming too here and there. i personally could have done without all the religious crap that never lead anywhere. also, less baltar. he should have faded into the background after the trial IMHO. not vanished but not stay a main character either.

    also, don't feed dayton. not every thread in here must become a bitch fest with him vs the world.
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  20. Archangel

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    The religeous stuff really didn't bother me. It just kinda muddled up the end a bit like the end of LOST. But neither of them were so bad they hurt what came before.

    I guess in LOST it helped that I realized that no matter what they said about having a plan, it was obvious they were making it up as they went along.
  21. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    If somebody wanted to explore the history of Kobol consistent with the RDM series, I'd be interested. Otherwise, fuggedabout it.
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    How would that be different from Caprica? It's all the same basic story in cycles, right?

    I mean, I loved Caprica, but isn't that the same show as Kobol?
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    I didn't hate the show, but at the end I was disappointed with it. I can deal with the "more of a soap opera and less sci-fi" thing. It was that the show seemed to be adrift for so long. It felt like they were just whipping things out of their ass with out a plan
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  24. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Frankly, I hated Caprica. I guess I'm looking for a true origin story, or several continuing stories. Take it all the way back to the "original Earth" where the Final Five originated. How did they originate? Were they "seeded" there from another galaxy, even another universe (consistent with Glen Larson's Mormon background) or did they evolve from humans (or vice versa) or, as we're learning now RE: Neanderthal, Cro Magnon, and Denisovan all coexisting and interbreeding simultaneously, were they an entirely different strain?

    I'd like a multi-millennial saga that starts on Old Earth, journeys to Kobol, and then shows the politico-philosophical rifts that drove them to the Twelve Colonies. Maybe something similar to what Sherman and Shwartz did with Romulans in their Vulcan Trilogy.

    But that's just me. :shrug:
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    So how's this one going to be abbreviated? YABsG, for Yet Another Battlestar Galactica?
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  26. K.

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    I think the idea behind the "all of this will happen again" theme is that there is no definite origin to tell. Assuming that, we got just that multi-millenial saga, told in the best way possible: through one of its iterations, and shadowing forwards and backwards to discover the repetition.

    In a way, I think that what we enjoy about the show is the feeling of wanting the whole multi-millenial story; we would not actually enjoy that story as much.
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    I liked it up to Adama's little coup at the end of the first season, which was made even worse by a sudden heel-face-turn return to the status quo. I kept watching past that, and saw missed opportunities go by, until finally giving up in the last season.
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    I was pretty disappointed that they moved away from the initial setup. Adama was more of the soldier / hawk (stereotypical conservative), and Roslyn was the complete pacifist (stereotypical liberal). I was hoping they were going for a both ends of the philosophical spectrum need each other to survive. Unfortunately that didn't last long.
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  29. K.

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    Yeah. Instead they were going for actual politics, in which people only claim absolute principles intermittently, even consciously believing them, but are neither their incorporations nor bound by any fidelity to such abstract ideas.

    Did I mention I loved this show?
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  30. 14thDoctor

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    That'd be nice... but all of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. :cylon:
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