Battlestar to get a more colorful upbeat reboot?

[Christopher]

Battlestar to get a more colorful upbeat reboot?

hmmm... it will be interesting to see how they will be able to make genocide more upbeat and colorful.

One possibility would be to avoid starting at the beginning. Instead of retelling the story of the fall of the Colonies for the third time, they could just provide a bit of exposition about that in the beginning and tell a story set years later, with the fugitive fleet discovering new hope for finding Earth.

I think some of the pre-Moore revival ideas were along the lines of a continuation of the original rather than a restart, so they might've been along the same lines. Maybe taking one of those ideas and using it as the basis for this would be effective. It would provide enough distance from the cataclysm that a more optimistic tone wouldn't seem incongruous, and it would also have the benefit of making this version more distinct from Moore's.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I'll check it out. Doubt it will be as good as the new series though.

 

[ATimson]

I think some of the pre-Moore revival ideas were along the lines of a continuation of the original rather than a restart, so they might've been along the same lines. Maybe taking one of those ideas and using it as the basis for this would be effective. It would provide enough distance from the cataclysm that a more optimistic tone wouldn't seem incongruous, and it would also have the benefit of making this version more distinct from Moore's.

Being a continuation wouldn't guarantee a distinction; Singer's TV BSG would have started 20 years later, on New Caprica, with a sneak attack from the Cylons. Not all that different from how Moore's BSG started.

 

[Thrall]

So who would have been big pussy?

Baltar of course.

 

[bigdaddy]

I still don't understand how any reboot can be more "uplifting" when billions of people on 12 different planets die.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I still don't understand how any reboot can be more "uplifting" when billions of people on 12 different planets die.

Perhaps it won't wallow so much in the dark side of human nature. In RDM's BSG the humans were their own victims as much as they were the Cylon's and there was an undercurrent of humanity being somewhat culpable in the Cylon's desire to destroy it.

 

[Cutter John]

I was just hitting puberty when the classic show premiered, so naturally I was hooked for life. Warts and all. So naturally I'm all for it.

Assuming of course he stays close to the look of the original, and adds a healthier dose of angst. Without letting it take over like the new show tended to. And for gods sake spend some money on props and costumes. I LIKED how the original worked ancient Egyptian and Roman styles into the costume designs. Rather than the new series who apparently just raided the Law & Order and Stargate costume warehouses.

I still don't understand how any reboot can be more "uplifting" when billions of people on 12 different planets die.

Carrying on and beating the odds rather than bemoaning their loss, and even wondering if maybe it was their fault for what happened to the colonies?

 

[MarianLH]

And for gods sake spend some money on props and costumes. I LIKED how the original worked ancient Egyptian and Roman styles into the costume designs.

Plus, for the love of Ghu, bring back the bomber jackets and SIDI boots!


Marian

 

[bigdaddy]

I'm sorry all your friends and family are dead, no reason to be sad at all.

 

[Dar70]

I wouldnt mind seeing a new BSG. Since the last one ended so badly, theres no chance of a continuation, may as well restart it again.

 

[stj]

If they do a reboot, they should start by rebooting the Cylons. Instead of nonsense about religious maniac robots, the Cylons could be versions of Jack Williamson's Humanoids. "Benevolent" robots take over human society as absolute dictators determining what is best for their charges, and the ragtag fleet is refugees seeking freedom to screw their lives themselves. The Cylon inability to kill humans is the human edge. Obviously in this scenario there is no holocaust. Whether moviegoers would care if the stakes were freedom, instead of survival, is the question. Count Baltar would be the guy who thinks the Cylons are a good thing.

If they have to keep a holocaust, the refugees should be survivors who left before the holocaust, foreseeing the downfall of humanity in war. The colonies had produced Cylons of various types to exterminate their foes. But the Cylons see there is no difference in the different colonies, unite together to achieve their programming more efficiently. Count Baltar could be the guy who thinks he can reprogram the Cylons and become the dictator. This scenario opens the way for lots of Mormon mumbo jumbo, where Adama (aka Brigham Young) is the prophet who is leading humanity to Zion.

In the end though, the only thing goods about the original were the Apollo/Starbuck/Athena dynamic, and a moderately competent performance of Patriarch by Lorne Greene. Copying the charm of the first is as likely as a Lost in Space movie copying the charm of Dr. Smith/Will/the Robot. Which is to say, not.
And Edward James Olmos was even more patriarchal than Lorne Green plus being as emo as a fourteen year old when the script called for it. Obviously a BSG remake depends on more than the gravitas of the Adama actor.

In other words, it still seems like a bad idea. Especially if they don't take my suggestions on improving it!

 

[stonester1]

"Religious maniac robots" was one of the absolutely facinating elements of RDM's Galactica, one of many.

 

[Cutter John]

Kinda like stj's idea. Quite honestly the whole 'robots vowing to destroy all organic life' cliche was played out a long time ago.

I do hope a remake does more with the whole 'machine intelligence' thing. The Cylons use of computer viruses, fighter ships with their own internal AI, and AI's that can be downloaded and tranferred to different bodies were some of the things I thought the new series did right. But please. No more of this 'Cylons that look just like humans' stuff.

Though I don't know. Honestly I'd probably be just as happy if they just did a remastered version of the old series on dvd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm1jEQmooVQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSEDZi88FEo&feature=channel_page

 

[FreezeC77]

I hope they bring back the robot dogs if its supposed to be a remake of the original series then. That pretty much sets the tone for the series.

 

[DWF]

If they do a reboot, they should start by rebooting the Cylons. Instead of nonsense about religious maniac robots, the Cylons could be versions of Jack Williamson's Humanoids. "Benevolent" robots take over human society as absolute dictators determining what is best for their charges, and the ragtag fleet is refugees seeking freedom to screw their lives themselves. The Cylon inability to kill humans is the human edge. Obviously in this scenario there is no holocaust. Whether moviegoers would care if the stakes were freedom, instead of survival, is the question. Count Baltar would be the guy who thinks the Cylons are a good thing.

If they have to keep a holocaust, the refugees should be survivors who left before the holocaust, foreseeing the downfall of humanity in war. The colonies had produced Cylons of various types to exterminate their foes. But the Cylons see there is no difference in the different colonies, unite together to achieve their programming more efficiently. Count Baltar could be the guy who thinks he can reprogram the Cylons and become the dictator. This scenario opens the way for lots of Mormon mumbo jumbo, where Adama (aka Brigham Young) is the prophet who is leading humanity to Zion.

In the end though, the only thing goods about the original were the Apollo/Starbuck/Athena dynamic, and a moderately competent performance of Patriarch by Lorne Greene. Copying the charm of the first is as likely as a Lost in Space movie copying the charm of Dr. Smith/Will/the Robot. Which is to say, not.
And Edward James Olmos was even more patriarchal than Lorne Green plus being as emo as a fourteen year old when the script called for it. Obviously a BSG remake depends on more than the gravitas of the Adama actor.

In other words, it still seems like a bad idea. Especially if they don't take my suggestions on improving it!

Forget the robotic Cylons go back to the original idea of the Cylons being aliens and not robots.

 

[Thrall]

I'm sorry all your friends and family are dead, no reason to be sad at all.

Being sad is one thing. Being a degenerate, scumbag is another. All the characters were at an asshole convention when the Cylons hit. Which is why only the good humans died.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I'm sorry all your friends and family are dead, no reason to be sad at all.

Trek XI was often said to be "light-hearted" and they opened the film with Kirk's father getting killed and then blew up the planet Vulcan and Spock's mother.

 

[The Doctor]

Meh.

I kinda doubt this will happen, but if it does, there's really no way that it could be better than what RDM gave us, particularly when constrained to a two-hour-and-change movie, rather than over a hundred hours of screen time.

 

[David cgc]

I'm sorry all your friends and family are dead, no reason to be sad at all.

Trek XI was often said to be "light-hearted" and they opened the film with Kirk's father getting killed and then blew up the planet Vulcan and Spock's mother.

And Kirk turned into a punk who got emotional and stupid whenever someone mentioned his father (even after twenty-five years later), and Spock had a mental breakdown culminating in him trying to beat a man to death. I liked Trek XI, but it managed to pull off keeping things fairly breezy in the movie without completely cartoonizing all the death and destruction that took place only by the skin of its teeth, and stuff like that was how it did it.

 

[DWF]

Meh.

I kinda doubt this will happen, but if it does, there's really no way that it could be better than what RDM gave us, particularly when constrained to a two-hour-and-change movie, rather than over a hundred hours of screen time.

It's been fast tracked so it's happening and there were only 75 eps. of the new series rather than over a hundred hours.