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Battlestar Galactica getting rebooted (again) for NBS's streaming service
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I got excited when I first heard this news, because I thought they were going to go in a new direction or maybe revive the original series. I'm less enthusiastic about them just sticking with the reimagined BSG, though I do get that it was the more successful version. I don't see where they can go with the reimagined series. Perhaps they can tell a fuller version of the Cylon War or focus on another Battlestar that escaped or other survivors.
That being said, I've long wanted to see what aliens would look like in the reimagined universe.
I thought the blue aliens from Stargate Universe would've worked well on the reimagined BSG.
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Nakai
That being said, I've long wanted to see what aliens would look like in the reimagined universe.
I did read the old BSG vs. new BSG comic from Peter David and I liked the design of the reptilian Cylon in that story. As for the story itself, it started off strong and then fell apart.
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Nakai
This has got my attention. The producers say it isn't a remake but they ARE using the BSG universe as in NuBSG not the original series, and they're doing some sort of different story line thingie something or the other. I'll definitely keep an eye out for news on this one.
I am a YUGE fan of NuBSG.
I am a YUGE fan of NuBSG.
Start the series with the Galactica landing in a football stadium.
Then flashbacks, lots of flashbacks.
Then flashbacks, lots of flashbacks.
Ever since NuBSG finished and actually had them on (our) Earth, I've always wanted them to do a series from that point onward and get right to the point where they're in space and the whole thing starts over. You know, the this has all happened before stuff. I'd like to see the prequel, which in this case would actually be a sequel prequel to the remake.
I'd love to see a sliding doors situation, where we get to seem 4 different versions of the arrival, depending on which decade they arrived, and how differently things would be.
The stadium would need to be more than one nautical mile long.So - a Galactica 1980 style remake then?...
How about "on" a football stadium then?
That works.
The G1980 continuation comic from a few years back had the Galactica on the Carter White House lawn. Zero points for subtlety.
The G1980 continuation comic from a few years back had the Galactica on the Carter White House lawn. Zero points for subtlety.
How about this...
All the Colonials and Cylons are black.
And they show up over America in the late 1950s.
All the Colonials and Cylons are black.
And they show up over America in the late 1950s.
Dynamite Press did publish a Battlestar Galactica 1980 mini series that was a darker take on the old show, it's worth checking out for morbid curiosity, SPOILERS it features things like the main characters being out of character including president Jimmay Carter ordering a nuclear strike on the Galactica after Adama foolishly hovers it directly over the White House! It also has a blood thirsty Dr. Zee hell bent on taking over the Earth. The only thing I liked about it is it had the colonials speaking Aramaic instead of english (the dialogue is still in english for the readers sake).The Wormhole said:
That's only based on some of our understandings of God. There have been various entities worshipped as gods throughout the ages, with varying levels of requirements for worship. The basic concept of a god is a being that is beyond the understanding of the species it's relating to. That would be likely to result in worship in any case regardless of the entity's personal desires. The only things we know about "god" in BSG is that it doesn't like to be called that and that it has been manipulating things throughout the series. To me that points to something that isn't God as we would understand it from a Christian or Muslim perspective, but some kind of super-advanced being that is able to do things that we can't understand for reasons we can't understand.
That works.
The G1980 continuation comic from a few years back had the Galactica on the Carter White House lawn. Zero points for subtlety.
How the hell does one land a Battlestar? For the original design all the weight would be supported on the landing bays.
Though I can remember seeing some fan art years ago depicting an origianal series style Battlestar lifting off vertically after construction had been completed
A structural integrity field is just gravity manipulators working to keep the ship toight.
Holding the ship together, counteracting g force, rushing along at 10 g has to be more difficult, then having it sit there casually at 1 G.
Holding the ship together, counteracting g force, rushing along at 10 g has to be more difficult, then having it sit there casually at 1 G.
I think you’re remembering one of the many failed reboot efforts - the Battlestar Pegasus project attempted by Larson back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s. There were several conceptual designs made on black paper/canvas - looked like in chalk or something. I got the impression that Pegasus was lifting off from a small planetoid or asteroid where gravity would not have been as intense. As for the physically improbable G1980 comic scene, it was a comic. And it was G1980.
Besides, TOS was never all that adept at employing science fiction concepts - even science fact ones. Remember “Fire in Space”?
UPDATE: The battlestar-in-a-gravity-well pictures I remember were from a failed attempt at a reboot by Glen Larson and Todd Moyer (of Wing Commander fame), back in 1999. Since Larson was still in a rather contentious battle with Universal over the rights of television BSG at the time, he did still retain feature film rights (until his death a couple of years ago, when his estate settled with Universal) and tried to make his own project. It was called "Battlestar Atlantis", A.K.A. "Battlestar Galactica 1977". Here are the concept designs I remember from that effort. Apologies for the small size - assets from that project seem to have become rather difficult to track down:
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yep those are the ones I was thinking of.
Very old memory. I probably saw those pictures in the early 2000s - back in the dark days on the net
^^ I love those BSG concepts! All I really want from this project is something creative not a retread of the old Glen Larson show or the RDM version.
I have another series idea (not a cringe as BSG 1990) it would take place in the RDM continuity but in Earth 2.0's future where the humans have advanced enough to create their own Battlestar type craft and figure out the "true" history, revealing what happened to the colonies post nuclear fallout, the fate of the red stripe Cylons, etc. Maybe introduce a new bad guy to fight? To throw a wrench into things maybe the humanity of Earth 2.0 creates friendly AI more like a race of Data's than Lore's just to break the tired killer robot cliche.
I have another series idea (not a cringe as BSG 1990) it would take place in the RDM continuity but in Earth 2.0's future where the humans have advanced enough to create their own Battlestar type craft and figure out the "true" history, revealing what happened to the colonies post nuclear fallout, the fate of the red stripe Cylons, etc. Maybe introduce a new bad guy to fight? To throw a wrench into things maybe the humanity of Earth 2.0 creates friendly AI more like a race of Data's than Lore's just to break the tired killer robot cliche.
When you say Earth 2.0, you are talking about our Earth right? Some remains or evidence of the BSG crew is discovered after having survived 150k years?
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