Magic space kids, Robert Reed time travel Nazi shenanigans or the super smart kid with Paul Williams' haircut.
Battlestar Galactica getting rebooted (again) for NBS's streaming service
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The one borrowed, or at least seemingly borrowed, from The Day the Earth Stood Still?
Amusingly, the human-looking Cylons were originally a G1980 invention, not RDM.
NuBSG basically adapted the BSG1980 episode with Starbuck and the Cylon into the one where Starbuck is shot down over a planet, guts a Raider and flies it home.
If you're willing to be broad-minded, nuBSG was adapting BSG78 episodes up until the very end. You had a false Earth story ("Sometimes a Great Notion" and "Experiment in Terra"), Starbuck's Dad appearing in the Fleet as an apparent stranger ("The Man With Nine Lives" and "Someone to Watch Over Me") and, um, an important shot of the moon ("The Hand of God" and "Daybreak"). Maybe "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" and the flashback in "Razor" would've been a better example. In any case, I kind of thought they'd wrung the original series dry once the Pegasus showed up.
No, I require far, far weirder in terms of hard SF, because the show started it with the notion of an entity so powerful that it can be seen as God running cycles (but then again, maybe not, so what are we talking about in that case?), or that everything one might normally handwave as a fairy tale, a metaphor, must actually have had ties to our Earth a stated number of years ago (the show just couldn’t leave that open-ended), using a specific mechanism the writers found somewhere and thought it was cool, even though it raises far more questions than it answers. Once you’ve introduced such power and control, recreating human evolution through (modified) 2000s seems trivial by comparison: the only question is how much to establish in an original manner and how much to leave to speculation.
I think the use of contemporary clothing and certain technologies was really there to make the audience connect to them more. They’re just like us and that allows us to see ourselves in their place. Plus it keeps it from having space clothes, goofy fashions, and other weird choices that will date the series like every nonuniform costume on TNG. It grounds it and the characters.
Moore actually tried to address it by saying that humans just tap into the same ideas over and over and are just universal to human societies despite no connections. It’s basically the collective consciousness of the human race. Like All Along the Watchtower, Dylan just tapped into it and rewrote the song that existed before.
Moore actually tried to address it by saying that humans just tap into the same ideas over and over and are just universal to human societies despite no connections. It’s basically the collective consciousness of the human race. Like All Along the Watchtower, Dylan just tapped into it and rewrote the song that existed before.
One thing I hope for this series is that it doesn't look like crap.
I still remember opening my blu-ray box set of the previous version and finding a piece of paper inside that basically said, "Yes we know it looks terrible but that's the way they wanted it to look".
I still remember opening my blu-ray box set of the previous version and finding a piece of paper inside that basically said, "Yes we know it looks terrible but that's the way they wanted it to look".
I'll probably judge it when I watch it. Will be interesting to see where it goes, as I loved the reboot of BSG - as long as it keeps original. I'll be happy.
The only thing I really don’t want to see is that fucking shakey-cam nonsense. Never been a fan of cinéma vérité at all. Gives me more headaches than Abramsverse lens flares.
Well, they could always tackle the fall of KOBAL and the exodus of the original 13 tribes. Hell, if GRRM can do an entire novel on the history of House Targaryen (and a potential new series based on it), there should be several seasons worth of material to mine working through the fall and subsequent exodus of KOBAL. NuBSG touched on the mythos, but there's still a ton of things to mine and develop.
I agree. The original story doesn't need to be retold yet again.
To me, it sounds like he's just saying it isn't a remake of the 2003 Battlestar, he's not saying it's set in the same universe.
It could easily be a new take on the same mythology (Being attacked by Robots and fleeing into the unknown)
So yes a reboot, but not a remake.
It could easily be a new take on the same mythology (Being attacked by Robots and fleeing into the unknown)
So yes a reboot, but not a remake.
Reboot is just a buzzword for remake. It’s a remake of the original and will probably go in a different direction from the 2003 series.
Cool it. That kind of commentary is only gong to make things painful for all
I would even argue it worked to broaden the appeal.
My wife loved the show, and she's not really a sci fi fan. There's no way she would've watched it if it was all weird aliens and weird clothes with names with lots of ' in them.
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