Ready for another Battlestar Galactica reboot?

[silverpig]

Oh, well, here's a spoiler.

Spoiler

The series finale was a holodeck program of Riker's. They tried to use that to tie the whole franchise together, but the actual effect was a mix of the feeling you get when Jar Jar shows up in Episode II, and the nerd rage of Lost's pointless series finale.

Right. I forgot about that.

 

[destrekor]

A new BSG should be a high-budget Hollywood trilogy. Too much lore and concept to boil down to one film. They could easily make it feel condensed and too rushed even with three 3-hour films - but I think it's still possible. It would help prevent filler.

That said, I'd love to see an HBO treatment. Probably a single 10-episode mini-series, as opposed to a season-based format.

 

[techs]

I only watched the first season of that. After a couple of episodes into Season 2, I couldn't take it anymore 😀

Actually season three was much better. It was a season long arc that was filled with mostly good episodes.

 

[notposting]

I guess I don't care enough to say, "hey, don't ever try to remake it" but for FFS, let it sleep for 20 years at least.

Same sort of thing with the Spiderman films, (I don't think I watched the 3rd Tobey one honestly, but the first one was okay and I vaguely recall the second one not sucking horribly) why are they rebooting everything 5 minutes after the last version ended?

At least go back and find stuff from 50 years ago and try that out again.

<more anger and bitterness>

<if MGM lets Emmerich get Stargate back I'm burning shit down>

 

[Ruptga]

Caprica was interesting, but I think it was just too intelligent to survive on Sci-Fi (since renamed to Syfy).

 

[JulesMaximus]

As long as Tricia Helfer is nude in it I'll give them my money.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

I liked the most recent version, 6 was hot, as was the (leader?) chick in Gaius' cult who was also in Bates Motel.

The religion thing was really weird as was the whole Kara Thrace story. I did enjoy the twist of the secret member thing though.

 

[Kev]

They already made and canceled that. Caprica.


I actually quite liked it and was sad it got canceled.

I never watched it till it was on Netflix and already canceled, but I thought it was better than the last season of bsg. I wonder if it failed because bsg's ending left such a bad taste in people's mouth.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I will never understand the Jesusbucks angle of the last season...

 

[Maximilian]

reboot it....who cares? Star Trek shows that you can reboot something ad infitium without soiling the concept, if the original concept is adored.

id rather see something then nothing at all.

peoples hate of new trek is a little exaggerated. it was a decent movie, but way mainstream so it turned off the hard core crowd. but id say most of the hard core own it and love it.

movie audiences are very forgiving...if you put out a good product, they will come

Yeah id rather see something than nothing. Im not a huge fan of the new trek but it beats the shit out of watching transformers or some crap.

Hope the cylons are proper machines this time though, not the *they look like us now* bullshit.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Actually season three was much better. It was a season long arc that was filled with mostly good episodes.

My wife says her favorite Trek series is Enterprise (she has watched them all except TOS because she can't get past its age). Her reasoning is because it has the most Vulcan stuff, her favorite aliens, and shows a dark side of them not often seen in the other series.

 

[silverpig]

I never watched it till it was on Netflix and already canceled, but I thought it was better than the last season of bsg. I wonder if it failed because bsg's ending left such a bad taste in people's mouth.

I heard it was because audiences found it too slow and complicated.

 

[NuroMancer]

Serious question. Do you think more fans like shows on stng about the war drums, or episodes that involved Troys mom?
my fav episodes were like the creepy halloweeen specialesque. The haunted enterprise was one of my absolute favs. That and the episodes centered around holodeck time.
Could you do a movie about holodeck fun time? I duno :\

If you havn't read it before reguarding holodeck cleanup.

Its a bit long but pretty funny imo.

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/blue-stripe-life-4/

 

[notposting]

I guess I don't care enough to say, "hey, don't ever try to remake it" but for FFS, let it sleep for 20 years at least.

Same sort of thing with the Spiderman films, (I don't think I watched the 3rd Tobey one honestly, but the first one was okay and I vaguely recall the second one not sucking horribly) why are they rebooting everything 5 minutes after the last version ended?

At least go back and find stuff from 50 years ago and try that out again.

<more anger and bitterness>

<if MGM lets Emmerich get Stargate back I'm burning shit down>

gets matches and gasoline out today :ninja:

 

[DanTMWTMP]

I think a lot of people missed the point. It wasn't religion it was:

Spoiler

the cycles had produced a machine so smart it was godlike. It was what was replaying and manipulating events for its own desire to get a different ending than destruction and hatred between man and machine. The machine was what Baltar and Six were talking about at the very end, saying the machine didn't like being referred to as god. Religion was just a tool of the machine because people and cylons thought about something that was so far advanced as gods and angels.

At least that's how I see the series and its religious references.

Of course that's my opinion.

Nicely put. I've always thought about it like that since I did read Hyperion series concurrently with when the TV show was aired, so I saw their scant understanding of that "God" as a super AI developed just like in the Hyperion series, where

Spoiler

Starbuck is just like Moneta