10-01-2005 12:47									#1
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This friday! I can't wait!
We scifi fans need to make sure we support this show. If it fails we're screwed.

	10-01-2005 12:47									#2
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I watched the 3 hour movie on NBC last night and it PWN3D.

Totally exceeded expectations.

	10-01-2005 13:07									#3
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Something felt off about NBC's airing. Seemed like they might've cut some things out. SciFi airs it themselves (this or next?) Tuesday at 9pm, with the series beginning afterwards Friday if I understand correctly.

	10-01-2005 13:14									#4
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Are you talking about Battlestar Galactica?

The one where Starbuck and Boomer are now women?

Bleah.

	10-01-2005 13:18									#5
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Watch it on tuesday when it airs again, then come tell us if you're still bleahing it.

	10-01-2005 13:18									#6
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quote: Originally posted by DRoseDARs Something felt off about NBC's airing. Seemed like they might've cut some things out. SciFi airs it themselves (this or next?) Tuesday at 9pm, with the series beginning afterwards Friday if I understand correctly.

I think they had to compress parts of it.

I laughed at how they kept using the word, "frakkin" so much.

	10-01-2005 13:19									#7
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Frakkin

Frelling

	10-01-2005 21:05									#8
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About 3 minutes into it, I already was not liking it.

After 15 minutes, I walked away.

What lousy writing. The cliches were coming hot and heavy. Of the characters, only Starbuck has any personality. The look was Wing Commander II--even the Vipers were renamed as Raptors.

	10-01-2005 22:12									#9
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I liked the book

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	11-01-2005 00:24									#10
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quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk Are you talking about Battlestar Galactica? The one where Starbuck and Boomer are now women? Bleah.

boomer is now a cylon spy on top of it all.

	11-01-2005 01:58									#11
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meh.

	11-01-2005 07:06									#12
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Cylons are now using Victoria's Secret models as spys.

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	11-01-2005 07:57									#13
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On the left (inset): cylon
On the right: not cylon

	11-01-2005 09:20									#14
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She is so HOT!

This show is awesome!

All the humans die!

	11-01-2005 11:20									#15
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All but 50,000 of the vermin...

	11-01-2005 11:34									#16
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There are female Cylons?

	11-01-2005 11:36									#17
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I liked the scene where they had to jump to light but they had to leave half of the people behind and the cylons launched nukes on them.

Very dramatic moment!

	11-01-2005 11:56									#18
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Good to see the show is finally coming to the US as well. This show is truely amazing and still gets better every week (too bad there are only 12 episodes ). It's rapidly setting a new standard for sci-fi television

	13-01-2005 05:23									#19
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Does the new show pick up where the old show left off or does it re-write the storyline?

	13-01-2005 05:40									#20
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It's not even a remake, it's a completely different show. It just shares the basic premise (ragtag fleet of Cylon survivors on the run, looking for a mythical Earth) and a few names (among which the title) with the original show.

	13-01-2005 06:56									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Locutus Good to see the show is finally coming to the US as well. This show is truely amazing and still gets better every week (too bad there are only 12 episodes ). It's rapidly setting a new standard for sci-fi television

You mean the TV series has already been aired in Europe? Where is it being produced? The cast are all Americans, so I had assumed that it was an American production.

	13-01-2005 12:12									#22
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Just watched the whole movie.

I was a big doubter. I was a fan of the original, as cheesy as it was, and watched it in reruns all the time. I was expecting a train wreck.

Totally, 100%, pleasantly surprised. It was a great movie, though not without its warts. I find Zkribbler's criticism baffling--the writing was exceptional, certainly far superior to the original series, and easily the best writing for SciFi in recent memory (Farscape excluded). Seemed to me they avoided the cliches while adhering to familiar tropes of the genre (there is a difference).

I loved the grittiness. It felt very realistic, and the depiction of the Cylons was quite effective. The performance of the main Cylon woman is really impressive when you consider this is her first acting experience!

I'm looking forward to the series, but I don't know how often I'll get to watch it, considering the time slot.

	13-01-2005 12:59									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Dr Strangelove You mean the TV series has already been aired in Europe?

Certainly not in Germany

	13-01-2005 15:44									#24
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My new band's going to open our first gig with the Battlestar Galactica theme.

	13-01-2005 15:48									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov Just watched the whole movie. I was a big doubter. I was a fan of the original, as cheesy as it was, and watched it in reruns all the time. I was expecting a train wreck. Totally, 100%, pleasantly surprised. It was a great movie, though not without its warts. I find Zkribbler's criticism baffling--the writing was exceptional, certainly far superior to the original series, and easily the best writing for SciFi in recent memory (Farscape excluded). Seemed to me they avoided the cliches while adhering to familiar tropes of the genre (there is a difference). I loved the grittiness. It felt very realistic, and the depiction of the Cylons was quite effective. The performance of the main Cylon woman is really impressive when you consider this is her first acting experience! I'm looking forward to the series, but I don't know how often I'll get to watch it, considering the time slot.

Definitley, the grittiness of this series totally added to it more than anything

I didn't see much in the way of cheese in this movie at all.

	13-01-2005 16:30									#26
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What Boris said

quote: Originally posted by Dr Strangelove You mean the TV series has already been aired in Europe? Where is it being produced? The cast are all Americans, so I had assumed that it was an American production.

Actually, I think the vast majority of the actors are British or Canadian. It's still a Hollywood production as one would expect, but the Sci-Fi Channel apparently didn't have the financial resources to pay for the production costs on their own, so they struck a deal with the British network Sky One: in exchange for paying a unknown but presumably significant portion of the production costs, Sky got premier rights. The first 11 episodes have already aired over the past 4 months in the UK (with an annoying prominently displayed 'Sky One Exclusive' logo in the corner of the screen). It hasn't aired anywhere else yet.

	13-01-2005 17:30									#27
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I hated the original movie and series but this looks to be much better. So long as they dont mention the colony names I dont have any bad flashbacks to the original. Boomer is a cylon, who'd've thunk it?

	13-01-2005 17:45									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Ted Striker I liked the scene where they had to jump to light but they had to leave half of the people behind and the cylons launched nukes on them. Very dramatic moment!

Nukes?
Sounds more realistic as in the original Series,
where the Cylons used Strafing Attacks to decimate the colonies.

Hope the series will get to germany soon

	13-01-2005 18:15									#29
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quote: Originally posted by SpencerH I hated the original movie and series but this looks to be much better. So long as they dont mention the colony names I dont have any bad flashbacks to the original. Boomer is a cylon, who'd've thunk it?

They do mention the colony names but really only to tell what had been hit or to ask if they had.

	13-01-2005 18:31									#30
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quote: Originally posted by DRoseDARs They do mention the colony names but really only to tell what had been hit or to ask if they had.

And that's just the mini. I think in the series so far a colony name has been mentioned only once or twice (just as background info, nothing remotely relevant to the plot).