That kid was a vital ingredient to seeing a young Jane Seymour naked.
More valuable than all the tea in china.
Battlestar Galactica getting rebooted (again) for NBS's streaming service
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That kid was a vital ingredient to seeing a young Jane Seymour naked.
More valuable than all the tea in china.
Basic outline. In other words, not every episode deals with the Cylons. They meet other races etc. Oh and some actual Hopeful episodes instead of constant weekly dread...
If it's in the same world as NuBSG I wouldn't want to see aliens, since it was a major part of the worldbuilding that space is a big empty place mostly filled with barren rocks and balls of gas.
I've always thought that regular people are also machines built by someone else much older.
The Hominoids on Earth at the end.
"Aliens".
Although that planet and everything on it was tailor made by the older Race directing the Colonialist's exodus.
How long does it take to make a planet?
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You'd have to ask the Magratheans.
My whole problem with TOS is why should I care about the genocide of the humans on BSG when there are so much other life in the universe?
The 2004 one made it seem more real. 50 billion dead, the only complex biological life was nearly wiped out.
I'm amazed there was no wild life on New Caprica worth hunting.
And by the way, if I remember correctly, episodes with aliens in TOS (i.e. beings who evidently weren't some offspring of the human race) added absolutely nothing to the general narrative. Actually, some of them were downright embarrassing (like the aforenamed Casino Planet).
And about the dread, well, the Cylons did an almost complete genocide. I'm not sure modern audience would like watching the few survivors saying "It suck. Oh well, let's go play space-poker". I'm sure that I wouldn't like it. The 2003 reboot was made when people were still struggling with 9/11. A lighter tone wouldn't have been appreciated.
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The underground aliens who were eating humans at that space casino renders your argument moot.
But enough about the fleet's politicians.
That was one of the few things that both series seemed to a agree on - politicians portrayed as feckless buffoons, incapable of making meaningful decisions. Much like real life! 
Tom Zarek was the only one that seemed to have a clue...
Tom Zarek was the only one that seemed to have a clue...
Especially when you got plants and tree's and oxygen and basically all the things set up to support life.
Jason
That was one of the few things that both series seemed to a agree on - politicians portrayed as feckless buffoons, incapable of making meaningful decisions. Much like real life!
Tom Zarek was the only one that seemed to have a clue...
I was disappointed what they did with him in the 4th season, after New Caprica he really seemed to be growing.
To some point, I would agree. However, while it's been a really long time since I watched the series, I somehow remember Zarek overextending himself a little too much to acquire the revolutionary power he sought. While highly political, he was a trench-fighter by training, not a professional politician. The nuances of bureaucracy, I think, eluded him and that was his ultimate downfall after he started moving back into his old conspiratorial scorch-and-burn philosophical habits.
Remember, it's not a Casino Planet. It's a planet that has a casino on it. Apparently there's a difference.
A scifi show with a planet that has more than one thing about it would be a huge step forward for the genre.
In the TOS the cylons were aliens and not built by humans. Also in the opening Adams mentioned other species that they had already wiped out
The thing that impressed me about Zarek was that he was a man of principal. He had his own ideas about how government should be run and he did his damndest not to deviate from them too much. Like in the New Caprica arc he refused to partake in a puppet government and ended up imprisoned as a result. I think he genuinely wanted to have democracy in the Fleet, which it never really did. To quote Zarek himself, the Fleet was essentially ruled over by a political strongwoman and a military strongman.
Granted, Zarek might not have been perfect, he certainly was corrupt and near the end he was becoming a bit self-serving. But these are flaws found in all politicians, even the best.
Agreed. Hatch played that character well. Most importantly, it helped that he was well-written, too, and not some over-the-top bad guy that Baltar frequently was, in both series.
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