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Post by The Doctor on Feb 24, 2014 21:33:55 GMT
New Battle Star Galactica. Holy Cow!!!! Oh My Gods this series is BRIIILLLIIIAAANNNTTTT!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My chumb as work has lent me season one. Half way through. Mamma. Have you seen the mini series that proceeded season one? If not, stop now and watch that first. -Ralph |
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 24, 2014 22:45:56 GMT
Yes! Yes yes seen it. Thank you. My chumb lent me that as well.
Brilliant series. Who says re-doing old shows can't work?!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 25, 2014 8:48:25 GMT
It works fine until part-way through season 2 when it hits a natural end but keeps going. TV needs to learn that some shows work best in short runs.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 25, 2014 10:16:37 GMT
No. Some of the best episodes are after that. Far too many unanswered questions at the point you're thinking of.
If we'd have stopped there we'd have never met Romo Lampkin. Or Dean Stockwell. Or Xena Warrior Princess.
No Exodus.
No lots of other things I can't name for spoilers
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 25, 2014 11:36:50 GMT
It does lose a lot of momentum (and sense!) part way through the second season but this has been sorted out by the end of the third season. The story they were trying to tell was definitely padded out far too much in these two longer seasons although their are still some cracking episodes amongst them. The leaner seasons 4 and 5 were big improvements.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 25, 2014 12:21:39 GMT
I just felt that an unrelenting 'everyone will die' war series (especially one with an implaccable enemy and everyone is a Cylon plot) works best in a limited run. The contortions it was getting into trying to artificially extend it became increasingly ludicrous and against the point.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 25, 2014 13:05:25 GMT
It does lose a lot of momentum (and sense!) part way through the second season but this has been sorted out by the end of the third season. The story they were trying to tell was definitely padded out far too much in these two longer seasons although their are still some cracking episodes amongst them. The leaner seasons 4 and 5 were big improvements. Cos they had Romo Lampkin in them. He's awesome. |
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Post by legios on Feb 25, 2014 14:33:36 GMT
I reached the end of the third season of New Battlestar Galactica and then just... Stopped. The rest of it is available from my rental service but I just felt that I wasn't getting anything from it and I didn't feel like I had any investment in the overarching mysteries or anything. It wasn't that I thought it was bad, but more that I wasn't engaged by it at all. I did see the "Razor" television movie, and quite enjoyed that from the point of view having some really good actor performances and a nice tight story. Just didn't feel engaged by its parent show by that stage. Still have the original miniseries kicking around in the DVD collection though.
Karl
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 1, 2014 9:55:33 GMT
I bought the complete Battlestar Galactica on DVD a few years ago, watched it all through like one possessed, and was then filled with a sense of bleak unfulfilment. I realised it wasn't a universe I'd want to dip into again and got rid of them. It was a polar opposite to Babylon 5, which was warm and rich and which I'll always want to go back to.
Martin
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 18, 2014 11:56:31 GMT
Re imagined Battlestar Galactica continues to, literally, blow my pants off. Onto series 3 now, and, well, I'm running out of pants!
This maybe the BEST sci-fi TV drama show ever.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2014 13:08:37 GMT
How far in are you?
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 18, 2014 15:59:50 GMT
Just watched Exodus parts one and two. They've rescued everyone from New Caprica. Edge of my seat, baby! Just so much going on.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2014 18:07:18 GMT
Oh a blinding episode Exodus 2. Galactica jumping into the atmosphere and then later as it looks like she's going down and the camera pulls back showing her surrounded by firing basestars.....
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Post by blueshift on Mar 18, 2014 18:09:05 GMT
Oh yes, that orbital drop scene was absolutely amazing
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2014 18:21:33 GMT
They've actually subtly keyed it up that something's going on by not showing Hot Dog, one of the more prominent pilots, until the moment Galactica's launching it's fighters
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 19, 2014 8:13:33 GMT
Yes exactly! Very well done episode! The scene already mentioned where the shot pulls back with Galactica surrounded by Cylon Baseships... keeps pulling back.... looks like the end... then fire comes in from off camera, pans round to reveal- PEGASUS!!!!! Wow wow wow.
Poor Colonel Tigh is having a rough time.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2014 8:31:03 GMT
Yeah but at least Col. col. Tigh is still with us, albeit a little deprived on the eye front, unlike Mrs Col Tigh!
That scene with him giving her the drink.... Tough to watch.
NOTE TO EVERYONE: please avoid mentioning events in later episodes not to spoil it for Ian.
And Ian, it's probably best you don't read the earlier pages of this thread as there's some HUGE spoilers in it
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2014 8:33:34 GMT
The scene with the Pegasus arriving that you mention always reminds me of the scene in Babylon 5's Severed Dreams where Delene arrived with the Minbari fleet and the White Star
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2014 8:52:27 GMT
Yeah but at least Col. col. Tigh is still with us, albeit a little deprived on the eye front, unlike Mrs Col Tigh! That scene with him giving her the drink.... Tough to watch. NOTE TO EVERYONE: please avoid mentioning events in later episodes not to spoil it for Ian. And Ian, it's probably best you don't read the earlier pages of this thread as there's some HUGE spoilers in it I liked the episode where Richard Hatch kills Apollo and goes around pretending to be Apollo, crying manly tears and saying "it should have been mine..." OOPS SORRY SPOILERS |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2014 9:07:02 GMT
You're a bad man Mr Marshall
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2014 9:16:59 GMT
Not as bad as when Dirk Bennedict comes on screen wearing a blonde wig, shaking Richard Hatch and saying 'don't worry Richard, we got this! We got this!"
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Post by Dave on Mar 19, 2014 12:01:45 GMT
Or in the final season when a rabid Muffit goes on the rampage!
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2014 13:00:12 GMT
That episode was banned in Europe
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2014 13:43:41 GMT
But the scene where he opened up and all the guns and missiles launchers came out was amazing!
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 19, 2014 13:54:20 GMT
Nobody messes with the Muffit. Not any more.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2014 14:39:30 GMT
And that Muffit grew up to become Steven Moffet!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2014 16:15:49 GMT
Come to think of it the closest thing to Muffet in new BSG is Jake the dog, hero of the New Caprica resistance.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 19, 2014 16:44:42 GMT
NOTE TO EVERYONE: please avoid mentioning events in later episodes not to spoil it for Ian. And Ian, it's probably best you don't read the earlier pages of this thread as there's some HUGE spoilers in it Thanks chumb, and indeed everyone, I appreciate it. Can't wait to see Dirk Bennedict!!!!!! |
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2014 16:46:09 GMT
Come to think of it the closest thing to Muffet in new BSG is Jake the dog, hero of the New Caprica resistance. I thought they had some injokey Muffit reference in the pilot, or am I imagining it? |
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 19, 2014 16:50:37 GMT
Oh Muffit was that robot dog thing in the original show! Just remembered. I was wondering what the frack you were all talking about!
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