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

[Turtletrekker]

My plan is to jump from service to service on a monthly basis as material I'm interested in becomes available. I am interested in a new BSG, but I don't know if my interest is enough to buy this particular service for an entire month. in the end it will depend on what else is available from them.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

As for what to call it, if they can fast track it, we had Galactica 80 so let's go Galactica 20.

Maybe this series will be a reboot of Galactica 1980!

Seriously, though, as a hardcore fan of the original 1978 BSG, I'm intrigued to see where this goes.

 

[Mudd]

Shouldn't that be NBC? Been bothering me for two days.

 

[Jayson1]

I love Mr. Robot so I am down for this. Maybe in the future humans go search for the 12 colonies and bump into the cylon robots that were given their freedom or explore Kobal and the early days of the colonies. Maybe people were already their and they get displaced by the more advanced humans from earth. Head Six and Head Baltar should be on the show but maybe not as regulars. Also something with the final 5. Jason

 

[theenglish]

I'm still surprised that people are upset about the religious aspect of nuBSG. Everyone is aware that the entire concept was religious based from the beginning, right?

 

[Awesome Possum]

Head Six is talking about God in 33, it was there early.

 

[theenglish]

Head Six is talking about God in 33, it was there early.

Yeah, the clues were there all along and fairly consistently laid out. Many of us just rejected them, expecting a more science fiction-y resolution to the mystical stuff. I count myself among that crowd. It wasn't until Angel Starbuck was called back to heaven that I accepted what the story really was. Didn't make me enjoy the series any less--but I did slap my head because I had allowed myself to be fooled even though I knew the original BSG was a religious story as well.

 

[Tosk]

Head Six is talking about God in 33, it was there early.

Even before than that. Very early on in the miniseries Caprica Six talks about God and her faith to Gaius.

 

[DigificWriter]

It comes back to what I said earlier:
1) Expecting BSG to not have a heavy religious element to it is silly

2) If Glen A. Larsen had thought he could get away with it in the 70s, he would have made the original series infinitely and overtly more "God-centric"

 

[crookeddy]

Perhaps that's the change in the reboot? Remove God as a probable entity?

 

[Awesome Possum]

The original was Mormons in Space, removing all religious symbolism would be turning it into something it isn’t.

 

[The Wormhole]

Mormons in Space,

Well, that put an image in my head of an astronaut wearing a Mormon Missionary nametag on the front of his spacesuit.

 

[Caretaker]

It's still vague as to what this new BSG show is supposed to be, the tweet states that it will be a new story WITHIN THE MYTHOLOGY this DOES NOT mean it will take place within the RDM/2004 continuity or even the original for that matter.

I have a cheesy and cringe worthy idea for a BSG type show. I call it Battlestar Galactica 1990 it's a story that takes place aboard an Artemis class Battlestar during the first Cylon war of the nuBSG timeline. The Artemis and a large Cylon mothership hit a timewarp and end up around the Earth in the mid 90's! It's up to the crew to elude the Cylons, evade detection by the Earth authorities, and advance their civilization to the point where they can stand up to the Cylon threat with the help of their allies a parody of mid-90's celebrities! So rev up your flying motorcycles and set phasers to cringe! lol

The thought occurred to me that this new series might be something vague enough to fit into both the original and new continuities.

 

[crookeddy]

The original was Mormons in Space, removing all religious symbolism would be turning it into something it isn’t.

Thus the reboot. Something completely new but with a concept of robots committing genocide on humanity.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I hope at least this time the killer robots weren’t built by humans and go back to it being some ancient unknown alien race that has some unexplained problem with humans.

The whole I, Robot thing has gotten to be quite a tired trope, especially since it looks like it may actually happen, with all the advances in AI and combat drone tech these days. Only a matter of time before it goes pear-shaped and kills us all.

 

[Boris Skrbic]

Yeah, the clues were there all along and fairly consistently laid out. Many of us just rejected them, expecting a more science fiction-y resolution to the mystical stuff. I count myself among that crowd. It wasn't until Angel Starbuck was called back to heaven that I accepted what the story really was. Didn't make me enjoy the series any less--but I did slap my head because I had allowed myself to be fooled even though I knew the original BSG was a religious story as well.

We rejected them because the show itself never took the side of religion, from asking if Baltar maybe had a chip in his head or a deeper problem to saying about “God” in the finale that “it doesn’t like that name”. There is a difference between featuring many characters willing to believe and saying their point of view is correct. The show has no religious agenda, merely a particular focus that keeps certain aspects (sometimes annoyingly) mysterious (and if someone wants to look at them in religious terms, they are free to do so).

 

[137th Gebirg]

Caprica had far more overt religious underpinnings between the Colonial polytheism vs the on-the-rise monotheism cult that was adopted by the Cylons later one once they attained sentience, if I recall the old stories correctly. It’s been years since I’ve seen any of them.

 

[valkyrie013]

Why take out God or gods from the series? It isn't like believing is a minority.. Quite the opposite.. By a large margin.
I for 1 don't have a problem.. Because if 95% of ur species croaks ... Be a Mad dash back to it..

 

[Jayson1]

They have to do something with Gods because it will be connected to Moore's show. Would be interesting what they might say about current ones. Maybe Jesus was a cylon. Maybe reincaration was built around the cylon tech of downloading into new bodies. Jason

 

[crookeddy]

They have to do something with Gods because it will be connected to Moore's show. Would be interesting what they might say about current ones. Maybe Jesus was a cylon. Maybe reincaration was built around the cylon tech of downloading into new bodies. Jason

Absolutely nothing stated confirms that this show will be related to Moore's.