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Posted: 5/7/2024 3:17:05 PM EDT
I watched Battlestar Galactica (2003) miniseries when it aired, 21 years ago.
Being a fan of the original as a kid, I was really excited about it. I enjoyed it tremendously. I watched again this weekend. Still good, but not quite as good as I remembered. Special Effects are a little dated, but that is OK. What do you expect? Now I think it is a little slow, and I don't really like all the flash backs. I think the bar for 'cable' productions has been raised since then and stories can flow a little better now. (when they WANT to make quality). The Miniseries is good, and there is some good stuff in the following series, but it tends to wander a bit. Not really good enough for me to watch the whole series again What we really need is another Tricia Helfer, and a show built around her! |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 3:21:18 PM EDT
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Series went off the rails after about 2 seasons... turned into Days-Of-Our-Lives/All-My-Circuits in space complete with amnesia! and supernatural bullshit.
It's tough to stay engaged when your protagonists are not just gray anti-heros, but are such awful people that you think "yea... you all deserved the Cylon genocide" |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 3:21:51 PM EDT
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 Battlestar Galactica Original Theme |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 3:22:06 PM EDT
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I had a similar experience. I thought it was great, but lost interest upon trying to watch it again.
Maybe the mystery was part of the appeal the first time. |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 3:22:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheAvatar9265ft: Series went off the rails after about 2 seasons... turned into Days-Of-Our-Lives/All-My-Circuits in space complete with amnesia! and supernatural bullshit. It's tough to stay engaged when your protagonists are not just gray anti-heros, but are such awful people that you think "yea... you all deserved the Cylon genocide" So say we all! |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 3:23:20 PM EDT
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First few seasons were awesome. It got a bit weird after that...
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Posted: 5/7/2024 3:23:34 PM EDT
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I liked it then, I should rewatch it. Last one I watched of that series was the Blood and Chrome standalone.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 3:42:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DamnYank]
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Posted: 5/7/2024 3:46:14 PM EDT
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I really liked the aircraft maintenance scenes.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 3:47:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistorySi |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:25:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NoMoAMMO: I really liked the aircraft maintenance scenes. They did a pretty good job (at times) of depicting military life. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:26:43 PM EDT
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I will watch it but knowing the ending and how much I still hate it ruins it for me.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:31:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryMy brother in Christ you have been here since 06 but don't know that stuff like this is verboten? |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:33:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Orion10182011: First few seasons were awesome. It got a bit weird after that... |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:33:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLH3: I will watch it but knowing the ending and how much I still hate it ruins it for me. Honestly, I never made it to the ending. I didn't really like the part where they settled on the crummy planet and were drawing a lot of parallels to the insurgency the U.S. was fighting at the time. The Adama Maneuver was cool, but don't the Vipers have FTL anyways? Couldn't they have jumped in themselves? and the Pegasus stuff was neat, obviously. I think I stopped watching about the time they found some Cylons dying from a virus. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:34:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By colklink: My brother in Christ you have been here since 06 but don't know that stuff like this is verboten? 
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:34:54 PM EDT
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Racetrack is the best BSG gorl.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:36:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By colklink: My brother in Christ you have been here since 06 but don't know that stuff like this is verboten?  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:36:55 PM EDT
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Now try Farscape.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:38:07 PM EDT
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 Vic ain't in wyoming no more, big shooter. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:55:19 PM EDT
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Decent special effects. Nonsense plot, attractive actors and characters who with the exception of Bill Adama. Come across as all being homicidal malfunctioning toasters.
The ending it had was inevitable. One can only build so much bullshit until it collapses in on itself like a singularity. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 4:56:11 PM EDT
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the mini-series was a 2 part TV movie and the pacing is perfect for that. there was no guarantee that it would even get picked up. Unlike most shows, the 1st season is actually the strongest. There's a lot of tension built into it
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NC, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:00:35 PM EDT
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There were some really good episodes.
33 is my favorite. Where the Cylons would jump in every 33 minutes and it was Launch Fighters every single time. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:03:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Orion10182011: First few seasons were awesome. It got a bit weird after that... THIS and they fucked the ending |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:11:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By marcus5819: THIS and they fucked the ending *off to google it.. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:14:35 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Scratch45: I watched Battlestar Galactica (2003) miniseries when it aired, 21 years ago. Being a fan of the original as a kid, I was really excited about it. I enjoyed it tremendously. I watched again this weekend. Still good, but not quite as good as I remembered. Special Effects are a little dated, but that is OK. What do you expect? Now I think it is a little slow, and I don't really like all the flash backs. I think the bar for 'cable' productions has been raised since then and stories can flow a little better now. (when they WANT to make quality). The Miniseries is good, and there is some good stuff in the following series, but it tends to wander a bit. Not really good enough for me to watch the whole series again What we really need is another Tricia Helfer, and a show built around her! Still one of the best SCI Fi shows ever made. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:17:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:20:21 PM EDT
[Last Edit: CFletch]
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I really enjoyed it when I first watched the series a decade or so ago, but when I went to try to rewatch it recently I gave up before the second season finished. It is slow, a lot of the drama seemed forced, and many of the characters make shockingly stupid decisions on a regular basis to facilitate the plot.
ETA: The miniseries is still epic. I love the drum music track and still find myself tapping it on my legs when I'm bored. |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:20:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By colklink: My brother in Christ you have been here since 06 but don't know that stuff like this is verboten? FFS, so ridiculous  ...changed it to a link 
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:22:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DragoMuseveni]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prae: Yep. Wasn't it because they had to rush wrapping it up or something? *off to google it.. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prae: Originally Posted By marcus5819: THIS and they fucked the ending *off to google it.. |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:24:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Starbuck-Kara-Thrace-Battlestar-Galactica-Sackhoff.jpg Vic ain't in wyoming no more, big shooter. BSG was peak Katie IMO. Since then she is like the girl Jerry dated on Seinfeld that looked hot or not in different lighting. Katie's face isn't aging too well (only 44 at present) BUT interviews I've heard with her, she sounds super fun. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:28:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DamnYank: BSG was peak Katie IMO. Since then she is like the girl Jerry dated on Seinfeld that looked hot or not in different lighting. Katie's face isn't aging too well (only 44 at present) BUT interviews I've heard with her, she sounds super fun. I could easily seduce her. If only she liked men. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:56:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DamnYank: BSG was peak Katie IMO. Since then she is like the girl Jerry dated on Seinfeld that looked hot or not in different lighting. Katie's face isn't aging too well (only 44 at present) BUT interviews I've heard with her, she sounds super fun. still wood.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:56:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Scratch45: I could easily seduce her. If only she liked men.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 5:58:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheAvatar9265ft: Series went off the rails after about 2 seasons... turned into Days-Of-Our-Lives/All-My-Circuits in space complete with amnesia! and supernatural bullshit. It's tough to stay engaged when your protagonists are not just gray anti-heros, but are such awful people that you think "yea... you all deserved the Cylon genocide" The person who was writing the ending obviously had a stroke while writing it. All the time invested into the show only for it to come down to that piece of shit. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 6:12:18 PM EDT
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Whoa. Katee Sackhoff looks like joker in this picture.
Time is harsh. I wish I had not seen that.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 6:21:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DamnYank: BSG was peak Katie IMO. Since then she is like the girl Jerry dated on Seinfeld that looked hot or not in different lighting. Katie's face isn't aging too well (only 44 at present) BUT interviews I've heard with her, she sounds super fun. I've seen some of her YT vids she put out during COVID. My guess is that she's spent years overtraining (she's a PT fiend) and hitting the dieting hard (not like anorexia or an ED, but just constant CICO to keep weight down). She also had her thyroid removed (cancer) at the tail end of filming BSG, which can whack your metabolism. So the aging/face changes is basically Hard Living, but not the usual smokes & whiskey variety. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 6:27:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulcrum-5: I've seen some of her YT vids she put out during COVID. My guess is that she's spent years overtraining (she's a PT fiend) and hitting the dieting hard (not like anorexia or an ED, but just constant CICO to keep weight down). She also had her thyroid removed (cancer) at the tail end of filming BSG, which can whack your metabolism. So the aging/face changes is basically Hard Living, but not the usual smokes & whiskey variety. Ugh. Well, that sucks. But staying in shape will probably pay off in the long run. I wish her a long and happy life. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 6:27:20 PM EDT
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The ending of that show made me regret every minute that I wasted watching it.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 6:28:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Scratch45: Whoa. Katee Sackhoff looks like joker in this picture. Time is harsh. I wish I had not seen that. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/187514/KateeSackhoff_jpg-3208199.JPG "Well now, Cavil... WHY SO SERIOUS?" |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 6:40:02 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Ridgeline]
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Great show when they got around to doing something besides sit around and talk about boring crap..
Also, if I was the space CAG I would have thrown Starbuck out an airlock before the first commercial break in the pilot. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 7:08:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheAvatar9265ft: Series went off the rails after about 2 seasons... turned into Days-Of-Our-Lives/All-My-Circuits in space complete with amnesia! and supernatural bullshit. It's tough to stay engaged when your protagonists are not just gray anti-heros, but are such awful people that you think "yea... you all deserved the Cylon genocide" I got the impression Ron Moore was juggling several ideas, and was also trying to avoid being cliche regarding the show's direction. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 7:09:14 PM EDT
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I enjoyed it when Admiral Cain calmly dissected Galactica's logs, pointed out every awful leadership mistake that Adama made to his face and stopped...that...shit...rightfuckingnow.
So Adama conspired to murder her and commit treason. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 7:18:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheAvatar9265ft: Series went off the rails after about 2 seasons... turned into Days-Of-Our-Lives/All-My-Circuits in space complete with amnesia! and supernatural bullshit. It's tough to stay engaged when your protagonists are not just gray anti-heros, but are such awful people that you think "yea... you all deserved the Cylon genocide" Lol... all my circuits... great reference... |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 7:35:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prae: Yep. Wasn't it because they had to rush wrapping it up or something? *off to google it.. Yeh, like many shows they developed plot devices which they abandoned at the end. This help ruin GOT too. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 7:36:08 PM EDT
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For those reading this thread and are thinking about watching. Watch in this order:
https://www.looper.com/893321/this-is-the-correct-order-in-which-to-watch-battlestar-galactica/ The miniseries pilot was incredible and it's what drew me in. Welcome to Galactica:  Battlestar Galactica | Welcome to Galactica |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 7:38:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By runcible: The ending of that show made me regret every minute that I wasted watching it. Adama should have flown back to the Galatica and rode it on in. And the abandoning tech was stupid, but I guess they had no choice as it all happened before and will again 
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Posted: 5/7/2024 7:39:50 PM EDT
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Grace Park was so freaking hot as Boomer.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 7:44:51 PM EDT
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There was a big writers strike that had a negative effect in the third season.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 7:46:09 PM EDT
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So hot!
  
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Posted: 5/7/2024 7:46:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryYou must be old... |
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