Battlestar Galactica getting rebooted (again) for NBS's streaming service

[137th Gebirg]

The Ovions were eating the humans on that "Casino Planet". Why is that story point always ignored??

It isn't (at least I'm not). The flaw is in the premise of a casino planet so close to the Cyrannus system that would lure in the humans so easily, when they should be running for their lives and being a hell of a lot more observant and aware of their surroundings while being hunted. I love many aspects of TOS, particularly the things that Larson wanted to do had he gotten a second real season, but yeah, Carllon was a wonky bit of writing that should have never happened and undermined the credibility of the show's premise way too early on.

 

[JD]

Not to mention this will likely be a hard TV-MA series. Specifically (and this is a huge indication of who is/was attached to direct the pilot) Gangs of London levels of TV-MA. They won’t soil the show with The Orville type silliness.

What gives you that idea? I haven't seen anything yet to indicate the kind of content level they were going for with this. I know for a while most of the streaming shows were a hard MA, but they seem to be going for more variety in content now. We don't really know what to expect from Peacock at this point.

 

[The Wormhole]

The Ovions were eating the humans on that "Casino Planet". Why is that story point always ignored??

In pre-Corona times, the idea that people's reaction after watching the near genocide of the entire human race and the obliteration of twelve planets being "well, that sucks, let's go hit the Casino Planet" was absurd to the point of silly.

Granted, in post-Corona times, it's a bit more believable.
"People die every day. Planets get eradicated eventually anyway. Why should any of this stop us from enjoying the casino?"
"The Ovions are eating us!"
"The Articles of Colonization entitle me to the freedom to be eaten by an Ovion. Don't tread on me!"
"We can't be expected to run from the Cylons forever, anyway."

 

[137th Gebirg]

Hmmm... Maybe I'm looking at it wrong. My brain goes from, "The Ovions are eating us!" to "Give an immediate evacuation order and nuke the whole fracking planet from orbit!"

Then again, with the underground Tylium fires that were set off by the firefight while escaping, the Colonials kind of did that anyway, engaging in a bit of genocide on their own - don't think I ever saw a single Ovion after that episode. But they were bad, so it's okay.

 

[The Wormhole]

Yeah, I may have gotten a little carried way with injecting real events into my take on the storyline. Whatever, that is how today's people would react in that situation.

 

[CaptainXaviOfEarth]

What gives you that idea?

Hmm... Okay. I feel the opening scene to Gangs of London will be representative of BSG21's overall tone:

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[JD]

I'm still don't understand what that has to do with the new Battlestar Galactica, I just looked it up and as far as I can tell it doesn't have any of the same people involved, and it's not a Peacock series.

 

[Jayson1]

I'm still don't understand what that has to do with the new Battlestar Galactica, I just looked it up and as far as I can tell it doesn't have any of the same people involved, and it's not a Peacock series.

Likely be set in the universe. Tigh will show up in old age makeup years later to see the new Galatica ship humans have built and a robot crewmember will give him a tour and he will say "I don't see any red eye going back and forth on you boy are you sure your not a cylon" Then talk about the new Galatica having the right name on it and be good to her and she will always bring you home at night.

Jason

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The Ovions were eating the humans on that "Casino Planet". Why is that story point always ignored??

I don't follow you. What possible relevance does that story point have to the question of whether the humans' behavior on the Casino Planet was silly?!?

 

[RandyS]

I don't follow you. What possible relevance does that story point have to the question of whether the humans' behavior on the Casino Planet was silly?!?

Because it makes the arguments of "Our planets were destroyed, let's go have fun at a casino." moot. There was a horror element to it. It's not campy at all.

 

[JD]

Likely be set in the universe. Tigh will show up in old age makeup years later to see the new Galatica ship humans have built and a robot crewmember will give him a tour and he will say "I don't see any red eye going back and forth on you boy are you sure your not a cylon" Then talk about the new Galatica having the right name on it and be good to her and she will always bring you home at night.

Jason

Gangs of London is set in the Battlestar Galactica universe, with Tigh? How did that work?

 

[Jayson1]

I might have made a mistake and thought we were talking about something else.

Jason

 

[JD]

I was asking why @CaptainXaviOfEarth thought Gangs of London was an indicator of the tone for the new BSG.

 

[Skipper]

The Ovions were eating the humans on that "Casino Planet". Why is that story point always ignored??

How does this exactly justify, I don't know, Starbuck behaving like a sociopath who, after learning that he is one of the last living human beings, the first thing he does is to go to a casino and try and arrange to get singers aboard the Galactica so he can make a buck (ah!) in order to leave the army?

Didn't the writer realize how tasteless it was? And he was one of the good guys!

 

[137th Gebirg]

I think Glen Larson suffered from Lucasitus when it came to his writing style. I’m paraphrasing Harrison Ford when he said something like, “You can write this shit, George, but you can’t act it!” Some things that might look good on paper often fail during the execution phase of a production.

 

[Marc]

Then again, with the underground Tylium fires that were set off by the firefight while escaping, the Colonials kind of did that anyway, engaging in a bit of genocide on their own - don't think I ever saw a single Ovion after that episode. But they were bad, so it's okay.

Maybe Carillon going ka-boom wiped them all out.

 

[137th Gebirg]

That’s what I’m thinking.

 

[RandyS]

How does this exactly justify, I don't know, Starbuck behaving like a sociopath who, after learning that he is one of the last living human beings, the first thing he does is to go to a casino and try and arrange to get singers aboard the Galactica so he can make a buck (ah!) in order to leave the army?

Didn't the writer realize how tasteless it was? And he was one of the good guys!

He adressed the destruction earlier in the episode. What are you saying, that he must wallow in angst and misery forever?

 

[David cgc]

He adressed the destruction earlier in the episode. What are you saying, that he must wallow in angst and misery forever?

It's still the same episode! How is that "forever"?

Let me put it this way; based purely on the amount of time that's passed since you first started sticking up for the Casino Planet plotline not being silly in this thread versus the amount of time in-story that passed between the Cylon attack and the Fleet arriving at Carillon, you're saying you're having a more deeply felt emotional reaction to people not liking the original Battlestar Galactica than Starbuck should have to his home and nearly everyone he ever knew being wiped out.

 

[Marc]

It's still the same episode! How is that "forever"?

Let me put it this way; based purely on the amount of time that's passed since you first started sticking up for the Casino Planet plotline not being silly in this thread versus the amount of time in-story that passed between the Cylon attack and the Fleet arriving at Carillon, you're saying you're having a more deeply felt emotional reaction to people not liking the original Battlestar Galactica than Starbuck should have to his home and nearly everyone he ever knew being wiped out.

had they been on the run for months or years wanting to settle down on Carillon or whatever is understandable (think New Caprica) but there's nothing to show it's anything mere other them mere days after the colonies were wiped out.

There should have been the expectation that the cyclons would also be still be hot on their tailpipes and there's not enough distance in to reduce that threat.

Stopping in on Carillon is what you'd expect with trump leading the council of 12.