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Post by Pinwig on Nov 29, 2015 22:43:43 GMT
Oh yes.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 30, 2015 15:05:37 GMT
There will always be Battlestar Galactica 1980 here. Those who are blinded to its glory need not look at this thread.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 6, 2015 20:12:40 GMT
Okay, so The Return of Starbuck wasn't quite what I was expecting. In so much as there wasn't much returning going on, other than to being on the screen. What a weird episode that is. Dirk Benedict playing straight man to a comedy Cylon doing an impression of Marvin the Paranoid Android. "I will get you a woman!" he says, and then promptly does. And she's pregnant.
What?
So they probably managed to get Benedict to do one episode for this series then as a rating attractor, and that was the best idea they could come up with? Try and make it look like Dr Zee is his almost but not quite son? Troy should at least have met him. Did Benedict stipulate in his contract that he didn't want to work with any of the rest of the cast?
I've really enjoyed watching this series; I could watch most of it again, but I think the problem it has is that it never really worked out what it wanted to be. We went from the 'protect Earth from time travelling invaders' idea, through the 'hide the kids on earth and let them laugh at the puny humans' bit, to trying and failing to resurrect the Cylons, to this bizarre one off episode where everything comes to a halt. Interesting curio, but by no means worthy of the rage flung at it.
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Post by blueshift on Dec 6, 2015 20:26:01 GMT
I enjoyed Return of Starbuck!
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 6, 2015 20:44:34 GMT
Cylons should not hug Colonial warriors. It's... wrong.
Or - get jealous when Colonial warriors look like they're going to hug someone else.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 6, 2015 22:48:01 GMT
It's the end!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 7, 2015 7:10:28 GMT
It never ends!
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Post by legios on Dec 7, 2015 13:16:36 GMT
I have a soft-spot for "Return of Starbuck" from the point of the sheer absurdity of it. (That and lines from it where what I used to finish perfecting my Cylon Impression when I was a kid - "Goodanother pairofhands to turnthegenerator").
I love the fact that if you look at it with the mythology of the original series in mind it just becomes dafter. After all, a woman appearing out of nowhere expecting a child to an uncertain father - a little child who will go on to lead them [the Colonial Fleet], and Starbuck in Loco Parentis...
Looked at with the whole ships of light stuff in mind it is basically the story of how Starbuck fulfilled the Joseph role to Humankinds "New Messiah". (Unless you are cynical/heretical and think Count Iblis sent her to deliver a False Messiah to lead humanity astray...) :-)
Yes, I know this is rather over-reading the text... It just amuses me...
Karl
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 7, 2015 14:48:51 GMT
Gosh, I haven't thought about 'Return of Starbuck' for years! Loved it as a kid.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 8, 2017 6:51:01 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 8, 2017 8:05:39 GMT
Ah shit.  -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 8, 2017 18:58:12 GMT
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Post by legios on Feb 8, 2017 19:32:50 GMT
Yeah, saw the news this morning. It was a poor way to start the day.
Karl
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 11, 2017 11:11:01 GMT
Really sad. Brilliant as Apollo, and the entire Zarek plot was compelling.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 9, 2018 11:47:43 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 30, 2019 21:25:39 GMT
Just ordered the original series and 1980 on bluray for myself.
And other Hubbers.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 1, 2019 18:53:39 GMT
Both sets are here already!
What fun we shall all have.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 1, 2019 19:28:20 GMT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 1, 2019 19:35:18 GMT
Quality fun.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 1, 2019 19:55:52 GMT
The original series: yes.
1980: oh fuck no.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 1, 2019 20:25:27 GMT
Oh come on it isn't that bad. It's perfectly serviceable entertainment.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 1, 2019 20:39:43 GMT
Let us be clear: you are defending the 1980 version? On Earth? With the Super Scouts?
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 1, 2019 21:08:36 GMT
There is a set for me.
The other set shall be divided between two lucky Hubbers!
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 1, 2019 21:11:27 GMT
Let us be clear: you are defending the 1980 version? On Earth? With the Super Scouts? -Ralph Four years ago (FUCK) on the last page of this thread, I watched 1980 and enjoyed it very much. Apart from Night of the Cylons. Other than that, good stuff. |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 1, 2019 21:12:09 GMT
Exactly friend Pinwig, exactly.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 1, 2019 21:50:50 GMT
There is a set for me. The other set shall be divided between two lucky Hubbers! Phil owns all of original BSG and BSG 80 |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 1, 2019 22:00:14 GMT
Let us be clear: you are defending the 1980 version? On Earth? With the Super Scouts? -Ralph Four years ago (FUCK) on the last page of this thread, I watched 1980 and enjoyed it very much. Apart from Night of the Cylons. Other than that, good stuff. Your name shall go on The List. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 1, 2019 22:00:38 GMT
There is a set for me. The other set shall be divided between two lucky Hubbers! Phil owns all of original BSG and BSG 80 Your name shall also go on The List. -Ralph |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 1, 2019 23:01:15 GMT
There is a set for me. The other set shall be divided between two lucky Hubbers! Phil owns all of original BSG and BSG 80 You are not the Hubber I have in mind. Who will get classic... who will get... an incomplete box set of 1980? |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 2, 2019 8:23:57 GMT
You can't split a box set!!! That is even a worse crime than the contents!!!
-Ralph
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