Film Roar

It'll be interesting to see how it maintains, especially since there's such a limited number of cylons. Too bad there's no nudity.

Just watched the New Galatica in the UK,I thougt it was ok but disapointted in lack of Cylons.Although it was a good foudation for a new series,spending time on each character and there backgrounds.Bring on the new series, but bring on the Cylon please.Original cast cameos would be cool to.

Saw the Miniseries on tv here in Canada this pat week. Enjoyed it,but took alittle time to adjust to the changes made in the updated movie.Look forward to seeing the series when it comes on.

iv recently brought the new bg on dvd and fell in love with it. the old bg was cool and iv always loved the ships more then anything. great to see a bit of conflict between apollo and adama and at the end starbucks confession bout zack was unexpected. i nearly spat out my tea when i saw the twist at the very end. didnt see that coming at all. i 4 one will definently watch the new series.

Jus finished watching BG movie that i just bought on DVD and I thought it was cool. Used to watch the old BG but like how this new one has been done. Cylons look menacing, humanoid cylons are cool twist, effects are neatly applied, good to see Edward James Olmos on tv again. Many sci-fi shows in the past allow you to hear exploxions in space but how can that be since there is no air!!!

Can't wait to see the show in the UK...oh yeah, loved the twist at the end!!

iTS ABOUT TIME THEY BRING IT BACK. A LITTLE DISAPOINTED THAT THEY CHANGE ALOT OF THE ORGNINAL BUT i'M TRYING TO GET USED TO THE NEW. nOW ITS GOING TO BE ALL ABOUT MONEY. We'll enjoy it untill the money runs out and they will drop it.

I saw the pilot and I thought the show had promise, but then Starbuck came in and the new Starbuck is so over the top that I just found the character unbelievable and distracting. I like what they did with Baltazar, and Odama. I also liked the gritty atmosphere of the show, but characters like this new Starbuck should be de-emphasized.

I thought it was good miniseries and i look forward to new ones to come

This new Battlestar Galactica was awesome. I am awaiting its DVD release here in the United States. For now, I have to watch the show as I had videotaped it back in December. I am eagerly awaiting the new series, and I am a die hard fan of the original series as well. Long live both Battlestars Galactica!

Saw the movie, thought it was very well done. Only disapointment was in the battle seens. I thought the shooting were more like bullets in space, instead of laser fire. Just bring back the sound affects of the shooting. Also hope it dosen't start out like the old one did, where the first 10-12 shows was nothing more then cowboys and indians before they brought in some better story plots. Time will tell. I'll be looking forward to them.

I don't know about you all but I am so very disappoint. How can they make Starbuck a girl. In the orginal one he was a womanizer. I think the lady did a good job playing him but I just had a hard time adjusting to a woman playing that role. I grew up idolizing D. Benedict because of Starbuck. And what's with Apollo he seems weak in the character department. I think the one they did in the 1980s was much better then this.

Just got the new battlestar galatica on DVD and after having grown up watching the original im glad to see this new updated version. The sound effects and visual effects are awesome. And the choice to make the weaponry ammunition instead of lasers was a good one, adding further scope to the possible story lines. The characters are well developed with an interesting background story that just didn't come with the original. Starbuck as a woman, good call, it futher distiguishes it as a seperate program.

But what is the best thing about the new one? The battlestar doesn't get absolutely battered by a few cylon fighters. Bring on the new series

Awesome reworking of the original premise. Finally a space series with realistic weaponry and fighters that look like they have gone through hell and back when they come home from a battle (Star xxxx take note!). And I love the down-and-dirty filming style - even carried through onto the CGI.

Bring it on!

Totally dissapointed with the reimagining of Battlestar Galatica. Caprica is under attack - all we get to see is some bombs in the distance. The other Battlestars destroyed - we don't see any of them under attack. The new version is way too dark. Where is the comradery of the Colonial Warriors? where is the humour which highlighted the humanity of the warriors in the original series. And where are the Cylons? The synthetic version of their mortal enemy is almost as obvious "we have budget problems' issue as V re using special effects shots.

Im just hoping that having more episodes will give them time to give us a reason to care about the Galaticans.

From what I have seen the show does not seem very original or fresh at all, not like they claim! They took a great idea and changed just enough of it to call it "their own". Female cyclons? (Sounds like a Seven of Nine wanta be". Female Starbuck to appeal to women? Why not just write good shows and there would be no need for gimicks!! And to have a baby's neck broke just to villanize the cyclons seems pretty quick & easy poor writing. I could go on but I think I'll go watch SG1!

I am sorry but this was a waste of time in my books. The real money to be made is in the original BG, I was not impressed @ all with this version. The networks should be listening to all the fans of the original BG series and continue from there... and build from that concept with most of the original cast members, hopefully reprising their roles.
A new movie and TV show could really make some serious coin with the right person behind the wheel directing/staring like say........Richard Hatch......hmmmmm.
If he can write books and sell them for profit, then there is definitely a market out there for the original series to make a much needed comeback and $$cash$$ in on all the money the fans are willing to spend to see the shows and buy merchandizing. Just place this version on the shelf with Galactica 1980 and throw away the key.lol
Canadian fan from the 70's
Just my thoughts..
Cheers

dont remember orginal series but really enjoying the new one. Storylines are good and acting excellent. Very much more shades of gray, darker than B5 and nothing like star trek. Excellent.

well i guess anything is better than nothing. 1980 was bad but atleast it was ..... no life in it... but the remake , well give me my fix and a good story line grate effects and!!!!! model product line.........battlestar and viper Mk1 2 and any others in a good mold i will be happy also if they work the old ? series props and models as they did a grate job in the first instalment thank you!

but here is the meat . make it a worth watching serise merchandising and something to watch again and again... and i'll be happy . richard, I do pray your version will some day come , but as you say do what you need to do and pray for it .... don't give up...
a true BSG fan. but as in every thing, move on. ranger.

After having read the previous comments I now have a few things to voice my opinion about.
The remake/Reimage did a great job. I grew up with the oginal in reruns only around 82/83. The revised characters are ok. They could have spent more time developing the cylons but the mystrey element works. It would have been nice to see some battle sequences between some other battlestars as well. But the miniseries is viewed through the perspective of the characters, besides it would have taken longer and a bigger budget to achieve this, which may have meant no remake at all. I'll settle for whay they did.

As for comments about starting off where they left with the original most fans are adamint about for dislike of Galatica 1980. So original actors reprising their roles wouldn't work, remember 1980 took mplace 30 years after starbuck and apollo, so they wouldn't be able to return, given that we saw starbuck stranded on an alien world, left behind by the fleet. So what do you do then, ignore 1980, ok then, you have now just remade it was well. You bring back the original cast, starbuck & apollo etc... do you really want to see a 60 year old starbuck. I think not. Captain kirk was hard enough to watch. So a new cast is used, so starbuck stays as a guy, but it still won't be the same character, it's not dirk benedict, therefore the character won't have his inflections. Just look at any show that has recast a character. The character is not quite the same. To avoid these problems reimage. The audience today, espically scifi audiences are much more savy today. They l;ike as much realism as possible, every thing should make sense, and the 70's version by todays standards is crap.
Don't get me wrong, i am a fan of the original 70's, but am also a fan of the 2003 version.

Sorry but the original was a comic book- flashy on the outside but crap when it comes down to it. The fun planet? The cowboy planet? A fire in space? Nazis? come on! It was just another Buck Rogers style cobbled together post Star Wars show just about redeemed by some good acting from Lorne Greene, Dirk Bennedict and Richard Hatch. I
The remake miniseries was serious intellgent well written and well acted (apart from Starbuck) Edward James Olmos was superb. I liked the fact that they let the basic premise speak for itself. You could really feel the draining horror of having everything you know destroyed. Very moving. Should do a lot for SF's satnding in the world.

I loved the original BG and I love this new one. I'm looking forward to the new series.

FYI, I have just finished listening to the production team's commentary on the DVD (of the new mini-series) and I would encourage the doubters out there to check it out.

This is a method to their madness.

/fwa

I really didn't like the original BG - most of the actors couldn't act their way out of a brown paper bag and the episodes where seemingly written by a bunch of elementary school children on prozac.

Now, thank god,this new version comes along. I love the fact that it's dark, compelling and unpredictable (the cylon killing the baby was a little shocking).

Its also quite obvioulsy someone in production has been on an aircraft carrier and knows a little bit about tactical Naval Aviation - nice touch there guys on dovetailing that into the show.

The actors are much, much better and more believable - yes, I even liked the new StarBuck, I thought she pulled the role it off quite well.
So I'm hooked and I'll be watching every Friday.

Now if only the SciFi network would cut back on the length and number of stink'n commercials.

Watched the first episodes of the new series and the miniseries, and I am in love. It looks to me like they just got everything right. The original series was pretty interesting science fiction, but it wasn't very good stand-alone television. It felt like Asimov dancing with Charlie's Angels. They seem to have fixed this- the characters are really people, they relate to each other in complex ways, and the stories are definitively plausible. Boomer feels fear. Lady Starbuck is on the edge (and hooray for women pilots- the old version "warriors" were a wee bit on the overmasculine side, and it felt kinda primitive.) Adama shows genuine wisdom enough to justify his position. It's good drama in addition to good fantasy, and that's something we haven't seen since the last seasons of ST:TNG. Oh, and sci-fi that actually obeys Newtonian physics? Silent space battles, ships that use thrusters, have inertia, and consume ammo? They use the words "telescope"? That's enough to breath visual interest into a tradition of space battles (worsened by CGI) that went dead a long time ago. It's a good thing.

I saw every show in the original series. The new one tops it in ways I cant even begin to say. It is darker, grittier. And the new Adama.....great.I hope it continues just like Farscape did, for years

Well this is great the more SciFi the better. I was sad the one or two original prime players that were Black were changed Boomer and Tye. It's always been a boost to our community to see heroes who were from all races
The Starbuck change a big mistake, lack of Future tech a mistake. I will still watch because I am an old fan.

This series has got the most promise of anything out there in tv land. What I love is that they choose to involve the veiwer in the experience. They don't bring in a bunch of talking heads with science bable about paralell universes, and narrowing save the world from destruction, first off their world has already been destroyed. The premise is simple, try to survive, so heroism has more to do with personal sacrifices for the good of others than big explosions. What I am most amazed about is that they would even dare touch religion, especially through the machines, which lack moral consceince. They leave many plot lines simmering from week to week so the season finale` should come off with a bang. All together, sign me up for the fan club.

Anytime you feel the need to 'balance out' the show by denigrating trained military male officers so that the whiney, self absorbed, selfish and foolish actions of the females seems 'stronger', you have take one step forward and two steps back on the equity of acting scale.

I find the treatment of humanity to be stupid if only because "The War Is Over, We Lost!" only counts if you are the bully and are no longer interested in beating a corpse.

You fight the war your ENEMY brung. Until he dies or you do. Going all 'spirit questy' is moronic. Especially the cancer patient President who is, oh yes, 'ex education minister'. Right. Like this wouldn't be martial law and the military running things.

What's the first order of business in a MILITARY sense? Fight Or Max Flight. You can't 'protect' the convoy with 40 fighters. Not when you are outnumbered 6:1 by a SINGLE basestar. You either have to become a raider like Kane and the Pegasus were. Picking up the swords of your enemy. Or you have to pack as many females and high-level brainiacs as are left into the 'museum wing' of the Galactica itself. And start running. Letting your (better trained, better motivated, /presumably/ 'better genes') WARRIORS form the basis of a new society. In the same way that the Cylons disappeared.

The notion of Cylons being 'just like us, only not' is also absurdly CHEAP. Because it begs the question: WHY. Become that which enslaved you. Adopt the visions and moralities of that which enslaved you. Adopt the form and functions of an _inferior_ being. Which dies so easily. Notions of godhead and sampling our souls aside, the entire idea of 'not being able ot see them' (glowing spines? yeah hunh...) is particularly ridiculous. They came back to wipe out a threat they feared they would have to reencounter in the future. And then they play cat and mouse games with infiltrators ABOARD the Galactica. Easily able to do lethal damage to it. Riiiiight.

Lastly, let me comment on the realism of 50MT detonations over a city. We are talking overpressures of 300psi at ground zero and 2,500mph winds for upwards of ten miles all around. At 60+km people exposed would be suffering third degree burns, instantly. Radioactive uplift and firestorms would render an area from Boston to New York to Philly utterly unliveable, roughly ten minutes after the airburst.

And they had MULTIPLES of these going off on each planet. With an aftermath 'wandering through a weekend warehouse district' that made the death of a SPECIES seem like some kind of singular game CGI VFX experience.

'As long as you take your rad pills you'll be just fine'.

Just doesn't work. The MEv background doses would take ARMIES of nannites to rebuild even tangentially exposed human tissues. Over the 'rule of sevens' MONTHS of reducing exposure levels. Indeed, the entire planet would be choked with toxins as the uplift swelled into the stratosphere in a process which would take DECADES to dry-air drop out.

Tens of years in which the albedo fraction would change to the extent that MASSIVE weather alterations would further exacerbate the utter civil distruction.

Certainly there would not be a major urban center left standing in which to find 'an Arrow' of hope or despair.

Treating nuclear armageddon resulting in the deaths of 45 BILLION people so cheaply is disgusting. If only because it doesn't _immediately polarize_ the survivors into an 'us or them, it will be them' shared Israeli mindset. Just look at 9/11 and imagine that 1 in 1,000,000 of you died. But rather you are the SOLE survivor of all your 100 known acquaintances.

Would you be mad?

So sorry, all this femm-angst for 'emotional development later' purposes just STINKS for what it knows to show of a military mindset. As well as the certainty that there WOULD BE NO 'growth'. 'Cause you fight the war your enemy brung.

CONCLUSION-
Ronald Moore has no deep conceptual understanding of what he is talking about.

Which should be less 'reimagining' Larson's vision than having his own.

With no broadscope perspective of a world gone beyond madness OR despair. No deep pathos for the CHOICES that have to be made |SNAP!| like that. Over and over and over again.

He can go nowhere but into scisoap land.

Indeed, he is simply getting the most advertising dollar from the least production investment for valid storylines. As a profit mongering exercise in xeroxing.

Copying another TV failure's clone of a Mormon Star Wars.

The proof you ask?

What happens if Adama and Co. -do- find us?

What happens if this is not another 'drag it out forever for maximum commercial profit!' sap fest?

Why they will find Earth with Apollo's arrow, that's what.

And we will no more be able to fight the Cylons in 2007 than we were in 1980.

With that to look forward to, there is no real reason to be happy about the 'reimagining' of such a disappointing initial show. And yet that kind of a wagon's ho 'character drama' is what Moore would give us. Because he's too cheap to do better. And lacks the understanding that the Cylons probably wouldn't give humanity time to get the idiotic 'into the wastelands!' Gola Quest into gear.

Not with all the advantages they now have.

Not with the CERTAINTY of what "You feared the future? You'd better get ready for it's whirlwind is now well and truly sowed..." HUMAN attitude as a consequence to their failure to exterminate us all.

KP

I remember the old series and it was good but the new one is better. The acting and story lines are miles better. Not sure about a female Starbuck but it did work, very well. Long live BG and all who sail with her!

I love the series!! More battle sences would be nice, but the show is great!!I hope it lasts
because I'm a weekly watcher!

Recently rewatched some of the old series. Good grief was it bad. And I was a huge fan! I've come to realize the best part of the old series was the title song.

Are any of the new characters a bit over the top? Sure. Need more action? You betcha. Even G.Lucas found that out. Do I like it? Heck ya!

I never saw the original BSG, and I had always avoided it because it was too cheesy just from the commercials. I had always felt that it was just riding the Star Wars wave, trying to make a buck.

But after watching the remake of BSG, I went back and watched the original, and cannot wonder for the life of me why anyone would want to go back to that kind of series. It'd never survive today's audience at all. The attitude of the whole thing was way too 80s, optimistic and a "cowboys in space" theme to it. It's like every other dude was a bad Han Solo clone.

The new BSG has a story, deals with issues that concern today's society and isn't afraid to tackle issues that Star Trek was famous for in the 60s. No television show today would touch religion with a 10 foot pole guided by a robotic arm. Today's sci-fi is about fancy CGI and the premise that humans can't do wrong, and all aliens want to be human. Just look at Voyager and Enterprise.

BSG is a refreshing take on sci-fi and it should be lauded for that achieving that goal (Season 1 was great! How many sci-fi series need 2-3 seasons to "find their footing"?). Unfortunately, it had to take shape and name of the BSG, which the fanboys have been hating on since 2003. Get over the Ca$ino (won't let me spell ca$ino?) Planet and the fighter pilots with capes, and enjoy the new BSG for what it is.

This new BSG kicks ass! It's about time a quality show has come around. Keep up the good work!