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Post by greenguy on Aug 3, 2017 17:25:55 GMT -5
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Post by prometheus74 on Aug 4, 2017 8:38:02 GMT -5
That sounds fun! Thanks for those links, GG!
I recently saw the pilot episode of the original Battlestar Galactica, and was surprised by the high production values for something made for TV at the time. The special effects still look good----especially the space flight stuff. Some interesting-looking aliens as well.I'd like to watch more of it. I actually remember watching the show when I was very young, around 5 or 6, not really understanding what was going on but loving the "spaceship stuff". Lol
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Post by greenguy on Aug 4, 2017 15:00:36 GMT -5
Sure thing, I think it's a fun blog to read.
I love the original Galactica. Not that it doesn't have it's faults, it does. However, the production value is really great.
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Post by MelMac on Aug 4, 2017 15:50:39 GMT -5
I liked watching "Battlestar Galactica," but a lot of times I got some of it mixed up with another - more watched - show in my family: "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century."
Why?
The launches were quite similar, though color schemes a bit more different.
I know we watched the latter show more because I liked Twiki. I have a book that's a story from that time (or had aspects of it), but I don't know where it is. It wasn't the same story as the one on TV, but it did have the "fact" of that world where the only surviving monuments from our age were Mount Rushmore, some pyramids and the one at Chichen Itza.
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Post by prometheus74 on Aug 5, 2017 4:35:57 GMT -5
Mel Mac, both Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century were created by Glen A. Larson, so that would perhaps explain some of the similarities.
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Post by MelMac on Aug 15, 2017 10:45:05 GMT -5
Mel Mac, both Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century were created by Glen A. Larson, so that would perhaps explain some of the similarities. True. But it was a bit annoying to try and figure out which character went to what show for a time. Then again admitted as a kid I liked Dagget in "BSG" and Twiki in "Buck Rogers." Twiki however annoys me *just* a bit at times now because he was voiced by Mel Blanc, who used a variation of his Taz voice to play the character. I mean - listen to what Twiki says in English and compare it to when Taz grunts English words - they're the same. In fact, one night I watched a clip of it on YouTube after working at Fiesta Texas - and turned around thinking I'd see one of the costumed Taz characters behind me. Then I laughed, remembering they don't talk (well that and the costumed Taz actually looks friendlier and funnier than the drawn version. Then there was the time I watched the episode with Randolph Mantooth in it (Welcome to Earth I believe - the one where there's a family who was put in stasis found by the Galactica). For a while I was wondering "Why is John Gage in outer space," because I was a die-hard fan of "Emergency!" and while I knew he guest starred in several shows, this one he felt a bit like he was playing Gage instead. Still it wasn't a bad episode, even though I *think* it was the last one aired/shown on TV.
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Post by greenguy on Aug 17, 2017 14:16:22 GMT -5
Mel Mac, both Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century were created by Glen A. Larson, so that would perhaps explain some of the similarities. Then there was the time I watched the episode with Randolph Mantooth in it (Welcome to Earth I believe - the one where there's a family who was put in stasis found by the Galactica). For a while I was wondering "Why is John Gage in outer space," because I was a die-hard fan of "Emergency!" and while I knew he guest starred in several shows, this one he felt a bit like he was playing Gage instead. Still it wasn't a bad episode, even though I *think* it was the last one aired/shown on TV. Close Mel...It was Greetings From Earth and 4 more Galactica episodes aired on ABC after that one. Mantooth was okay in it, the worse was Ray Bolger and Bobby Van playing the robots Hector and Vector. Even at 12 years old I cringed at the scenes featuring those two, it was Galactica at it's worse...LOL. Greetings or The Magnificent Warriors are usually pegged as the two worst Galactica episodes. Again "stunt casting" in the latter with Brett Somers fresh from the CBS game show Match Game, made that episode less than stellar.
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Post by MelMac on Aug 21, 2017 11:30:19 GMT -5
I didn't mind the robots (I liked Dagget), but again I was a kid when the show aired/was in reruns (after all I was two when the "GAH" pilot aired).
The show did suffer from a lot of stunt casting and other aspects you're right. In my opinion though most of the original season episodes, even those two, are stronger than most of "Galactica 1980."
Then again - I prefer the old show to the new one save how they showed the colonies destroyed. That felt far more realistic - but then again the Cylons at the worst and meanest looking made it work better. I totally disliked the human Cylon excess: ONE was enough. They didn't need 12. I wasn't surprised "Robot Chicken" did a parody of this fact - in that sketch the producer supposedly threw darts at the wall and any that hit a person's casting headshot became a Cylon.
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Post by greenguy on Aug 22, 2017 15:28:44 GMT -5
Mel, you are I are in a corner by ourselves for liking the daggit...LOL...not many people do. I never had a problem with it when I was 12, or at my current age. Oh I agree, Galactica:1980 was a nightmare, the original Battlestar at it's worst was better than G80...except maybe for G80's The Return Of Starbuck. During 80's original broadcast, I felt sorry for the actors each week a new episode aired. I hated that the turbo cycles flew, but I thought they looked fantastic traveling down the road. I apologize for the interruption of this post to debunk a myth. You find people that say the turbo cycles were built for the original Battlestar but never used. That is false. While it is true an original unfilmed script had machines that seemed close to the what was seen in Galactica: 1980, the script NEVER went into pre-production so the bikes were never built. Ken Larson who worked for Universal Heartland has a website www.universalhartland.com/code/galc21mc.shtml that relates the story on building the bikes, and how the production team was on a super tight deadline to design and build them. This wouldn't have been needed IF the bikes had already been built, but not used in the original Galactica. Larson's website has been up for years, and why people continue to say the bikes were built for Battlestar is total rubbish and beyond me. I highly recommend Ken Larson's website if interested in FX work for Galactica, Buck Rogers, etc. many great photo's and details. I know the new Galactica did very well and has many fans, I tried I really did, but I hated it. I would torment myself with a G80 episode before watching the Ron Moore version.
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