If they really want to do justice to the original franchise, they ought to bring Richard Hatch on board. He’s been doing more to keep the original show alive than anyone, after all.
You did note that the Cylons went straight for Sinatra’s office, right?
Also that VW convertible needs a tail light lens.
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the Capitol Records building? haha, yes. made me lauuuughhhhhh!
Despite being awesome-looking disco-robots, the Cylons don’t appear to be very good at hitting and killing this. YES, things got hit and blowed up – but most shots did nothing more than produce gentle puffs of smoke.
Perhaps that a metaphor for the 1970s. I don’t know. I wan’t there. Or rather, I don’t remember it*.
* or will not admit to.
You think the 2004 Galactica needed daggetts? Oh, good lord… You’re probably pissed about the meanings of frak and felgercarb getting switched.
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I always hated the silly swear language.
I don’t like people who do not like Daggetts.
Needed a better Pegasus story arc too.
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You can’t like “daggetts” as there was only the one, it was a robot, and it’s only spelled with one “t”. The dagget, on the obnoxious SF character scale, rates somewhere between Debbie the Bloop, and Jar Jar Binks.
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I have to submit Twiki, the chunk of chrome plated plastic garbage that wobbled around making the most cloyingly stupid remarks imaginable on the Buck Rogers TV show.
After having my socks blown off by the original Star Wars movie, I spent a year or so trying out every new SF offering from Hollywood. The Black Hole… Lost in Space… Buck Rogers… And the subject of this thread (among others).
All I took away from it was a new awareness of how thoroughly something great can be ruthlessly exploited.
Don’t tell me how to feel. You aren’t the boss of me. Cylons killed all the daggetts so the dumb Colonials made a Robot dog thinking they could trust it after their robot disco dancers destroyed their society.
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According to JMS back in August 2014:
Here’s the plan: We’re going to have, through Studio JMS, at least two, maybe three TV series on the air next year. We’re going to have at least one or two movies going ahead. And we’ll use that to parlay serious investment in the studio. I’m not talking Kickstarter, I’m talking about one hundred million dollars, two hundred million dollars; we already have people who are lined up and interested in doing that.
So in 2015 I will write a Babylon 5 screenplay. I’ll be giving Warner Bros. the opportunity – if they want to step up, “Help yourself”. If they don’t, 2016: We make it. I’m not going to wait around for more of our cast members to die.
Granted, he’s been busy with the Sense8 and now Red Mars.
I would LOVE an Alien Nation reboot.
In the year of Trump and BLM, it’s more needed than ever.
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They didn’t go from "they have a plan/plot/story to none at all. There simply never was one.
The X-Files pioneered it: Build a mystery to get people hooked. Add to the mystery. Add more. Like any real-like conspiracy theorist when confronted with facts that contradict the theory, Make The Conspiracy Bigger.
People stay hooked, because they want to see how it all resolves.
But those producing the show are only being paid based on the ratings for the first run. Even reruns are paid for based on how well the first run did. And so it doesn’t matter in the least if your series ends without resolving your mysteries, or with a lame “God did it” or “They were in purgatory the whole time.”
And so “They have a plan” didn’t apply to BSG’s writers. The concept of BSG’s “Final Five” was only invented a couple seasons in for the episode where it was first mentioned. Even WHO the final five were wasn’t decided until much later. And so there’s no forshadowing, no preparation, no overall plot revealed.
With Babylon 5 on the other hand, JMS wrote the overall series story arc ahead of time, plus a couple hundred years of history in either direction. Having written a lot of Murder She Wrote episodes, he was a firm believer in the concept that if someone gets shot, you should see the gun on the mantle earlier on. And it shows.
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Careful there. You might instead get a BSG reboot modernized for the “year of Trump.”
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The only good thing about the Buck Rogers series, was Erin Gray in those slinky outfits.
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I hope they film the movie in Canada like they did with the 2004 series.
And this time, let the Canadians design the Cylons.
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Frak that… you can take this reboot series and shoot it out an airlock.
SO SAY WE ALL!
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In the 1978 series the emphasis was on the exodus. In the 2004 series the emphasis was on the 9/11-style event. I’m not sure how it would work as a series of movies today. A journey takes time a movie doesn’t have, and 9/11 was a young moviegoer’s lifetime ago. You could make the first one disaster porn, but how do you follow that up?
I would prefer to see new movies, if they are made, be drawn from the refugee experience. Make the initial conflict last years, not a day. Have some life on other planets they encounter, as in the original series, but with the grit of the re-imagined series.
What really annoyed me with the BSG reboot’s handling of things is that they could have gone in such interesting directions with the detail of the religious differences between the cylons and humans. And a couple of times it seemed like they were really going to take it somewhere… maybe they just got cold feet at the idea of actually examining that in-depth.
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The whole sequence in the YouTube clip is shots of Cylon raiders they reused countless times in the space battle scenes of the original series intercut with footage from the movie Earthquake. Didn’t cost them very much at all.
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