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Galactica
Has anyone been watching the Battlestar Galactica remake on Sci-Fi? They just played the miniseries/pilot the last couple of nights, and the series premiere is Friday night. I thought it was really well done, I give it an A-. I haven't seen any good gritty, realistic sci-fi in a long time. :alien:
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I saw what I thought was the series premier on NBC, I think on Sat or Sun. I thought it was well-done. Was there another episode already, or a repeat?
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From what I have gathered they did a two part miniseries as a pilot last year, which they just replayed the last couple of nights on Sci-Fi channel. Then tomorrow night they're going to start the actual weekly series with a two-hour opener.
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I saw the made for TV movie deal that they had.
Other than the fact that the new Starbuck is the most annoying bitch I've ever seen on TV, it was pretty decent, considering that it's made for TV. I probably won't watch the series... chances are the budget will be lower (and therefore the production quality will suffer), and planning my evenings around a Friday night TV show prolly won't work out. |
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I agree with Austin, though, it might be one of the more decent sci-fi series on now. I'm sick of reality shows & do-it-yourself shows. And I'll probably just tape it and watch it later. |
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I'm not gonna be around most Friday nights either, but I'll tape it to watch later. I just liked the "universe" it's set it, it looks "lived-in", like something that would actually happen. It's not all nice and clean and shiny and perfect like watching Star Trek. |
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I do agree with the "lived in" aspect of the world. Star Trek has been working hard to dirty up the series ever since NextGen... but since I haven't watched any of the shows since NextGen, so I haven't really seen what's become of the world. IMO, the best movie/TV Sci-Fi universe is still Star Wars. I just re-watched Empire (since I got the DVDs for X-Mas) and the battle on Hoth *still* gives me goosebumps. No matter how jacked up the prequels are, the "real" (ep. 4-5.5) Star Wars Universe is still gritty, real, and just plain awesome. It makes me wish Lucas never had kids so we wouldn't have to suffer the Ewok syndrome that's added goofy BS to everything since the second half of Jedi. |
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Except for the CGI updates to the space combat scenes, the changes to Episodes 4-6 pretty much make me want to vomit. |
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Me too. I have boycotted the first three episodes, and have not seen any of these pandering kiddie shows with the exceptions of the trailers forced upon me. |
I'm telling you guys, Episode III will be much improved. Tons of Jedi badass fighting, and an army of Wookiees. What else do you need? Oh yeah, more yoda beating down the bad guys too.
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they could have made it better but knew they could make money as is :lol: :lol: it will be funny, is when it came out, they trick you into a two part series 3 and 3.5 to fill in the gaps :lol: :lol: :lol: (knows that wont happen so please, just a joke) |
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Lucas is just going to renumber the original star wars as 7-9. Then create another trilogy 4-6 that will cover all these issues.
Then he'll decide that episodes 7-9 are crap and can't be fixed by another "super-ultra special edition", and reshoot them all with Jar-Jar and Ewoks only. |
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Wasn't there supposed to be a 7-9 originally after they went back for 1-3? A trilogy of trilogies?
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Lucas has said absolutely not. So hopefully when he's dead, somebody with some filmmaking talent will buy the rights and do it the way it should be done.
Honestly though, the real issue is casting. How do you pick up from the end of Episode VI with an all-new cast? How far ahead do you take it? Or, if you were to start in 3-4 years, would it be worth attempting to get the cast together? Hamill would be in, Ford could be convinced, but Carrie Fisher hates everything that is Star Wars. (I think it's trauma from the gold bikini :P) |
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On the bright side, there is a Lucas-sanctioned series ov novels that picks up at the end of Jedi. They're actually pretty good. But now there's like 45 paperbacks that are "official" and like 200 that aren't. Probably the first 4-5 stand-alone novels, and a handful of book trilogies are well worth reading. I have most of those, scattered about with my belongings.
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The Thrawn storyline trilogy by Timothy Zahn was excellent IMO; after those were written some of the books were good, some weren't.. quality generally declined.
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Getting back tot he plot lines that need to be covered in Ep. 3... "The fall of the Republic" is actually covered in Ep. 4 about 10 minutes into it when one of the Admirals says "The Senate is no longer a problem, the Emperor just disbanded them", or something to that effect.
Pretty weaksauce, but technically the Republic isn't gone until *after* the rebellion has started and the Death Star is built, etc. |
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Or that's my take on it, anyway. :lol: |
ummm... what was this thread about again?
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Actually, I bet we can't really gleen any real information from that scene since Lucan hadn't hardly thought out any of the pre-story yet at that point... it was just political gibberish to make the audience realize that there were large political issues at hand behind the scenes.. not just space guys blowing stuff up. |
As I understand it, Lucas originally did screenplays for all 9 episodes at once, then chose IV-VI to actually film first.
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Uber-cliff notes of each trilogy:
I-III: Republic is barely effective, but tame government. Evil bad guy wants to take over. Sneaky political manipulation ensues. IV-VI: Evil bad guy is firmly in control of the galaxy. Old government good guys want it back. Fight ensues, good triumphs. VII-IX: Evil bad guy's minions want the government back. More fighting. Dark Helmet's maxim proven wrong. |
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A New Hope: Written/Directed by Lucas Empire: Story by Lucas, Screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, Directed by Irving Kershner Jedi: Story by Lucas, Screenplay by Kasdan and Lucas, Directed by Richard Marquand (although in reality Lucas did a lot of the directing too since Marquand was a n00b) Lucas had a simple general outline based on his own interpretations of well known ancient myths, but no details until shortly before the movies were made. |
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Right, it wasn't fully fleshed out, but the basic events were in place. that's what I understood at least. I'm sure Episode I-III are far removed from his original ideas in some repsects. |
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I don't think the political backstory, or much of anything else outside of the basic themes, were really fleshed out until the movies were actually written. Which is also why Empire is so much better... it wasn't really written by Lucas. He told them that the rebels need to get their asses kicked and that Luke needed to find out Vader was his father... the writers were the ones that made the movie rule. |
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wow I got in on this too late, the intraweb broke here today.
Nick, I also really liked 'Firefly' |
Series premiere tonight!
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I liked it. |
On Sunday SciFi played the pilot (4 hrs.), which filled in some holes that I missed from the NBC broadcast. But since I didn't tape it, and stepped away for a few minutes, what was the bit about jumping every 33 minutes?
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Thanks Austin.
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No problem. I'm here for random Battlestar plot info needs. :lol:
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