Classic Battlestar Galactica-A Continuation?

[tstone (deleted)]

I'm still a big fan of the original series. Sure, I agree that the new series has taken most of the cool elements from the original series and developed them far more than it did. Sure, I agree the original had cheese that is best left alone. However, the original sported great characters (mostly due to acting talent), great visuals and elements worthy that the new series has discarded.

There was long talk of a continuation. And despite the success of the new series, talk of a continuation of the original isn't dead. There is clearly fan interest, from books, comics and collectibles, to the fandom of the original, and those following the new. Many TNS fans are TOS fans. And many new BSG fans who have discovered Galactica through the new series might give TOS a second look, with a continuation in the hands of skilled players who know and love it and what makes it work.

Tom Desanto is just such a guy. And with TNS raising the banner of BSG, if Transformers the Movie does do gangbusters, he may have the push to finally drag the old girl out of drydock.

Here's an interesting article on just that. Now, it's posted on a web site run by people militantly against TNS. Their bitter postings remind me of Comic Book Guy on the Simpson, kinda an embarrassment to geekdom. But the site is pretty cool. Read the article, check out the site, and don't antagonize the haters. Let them stew in their own bile.

Read the article and think of what this might be like. Personally, I like it. I like it alot.

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[rayman]

Well Tom's ideas sound good, but the new Galactica is gaining a big fanbase and I'm guessing some of its fans never even heard of the original, or some think it was too cheesy for them. Until the remake is off the air it will be a very longtime till there's another live-action series. I wonder how they will explain Jane Seymour's character having aged if she's from the "Ships of lights", she would still look the same after her character died. He did mention something about an animated series, but I don't know if it will translate well watching CGI or drawn characters compared to live actors. I'm all for a continuation, a motion picture would be ideal, after the remake is canceled.

[twincarb]

possibly the animated idea would work better just because of two factors, the age of the actors now and the sad fact that some of them are no longer with us as well as the confusion of two completly different shows competing for the same audience.
Please don't curse the present BSG with the "c" word, the axe has been swung on far too many wonderful sci-fi series, firefly, threshold even enterprise was killed just as it was getting established, just imagine how bland it would be without ANY decent sci-fi on the screen.

[tstone (deleted)]

Not to mention Farscape, twincarb. However, I don't think the new BSG is in any danger. Awards and acclaim out the yazoo, decent ratings, season three is a go, as is a prequel series.

We fans of the new show are enjoying riches.

[ninjabear]

Awards are meaningless.
Fanbase is unimportant if it's not generating ad revenues; a million people can love a show and it will still get cancelled if it doesn't perform right out of the starting gate.
Trouble is, a good sci-fi series needs a "shakedown cruise" to find out what works and what does not; network suits are not willing to spend even more money on something they didn't really want to do in the first place, let alone wait for a show to come up to cruising speed.

If Bumblestore is so frelling great, why does it get the hard sell ( and it's DVDs sell for so much less than the classic?) For that matter, why didn't it stay on NBC, instead of hiding out in the niche audience the Sci-Fi Channel draws?

Humans did not create the Cylons; you could rename the new thing TERMINATORS IN SPAAAAAACE!! and no one would notice the difference.

I'd like to see Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, and as many of the original cast come back. Commander Apollo and Colonel Starbuck, riding herd on a new group of hotshot Viper pilots under command of Captain Boxey (or Troy, if you prefer).

Damn Donald Bellisario to hell, for allowing that clown to frell up a piece of my youth!
Battlestar Galactica has been the most physically abused sci-fi show in history; it deserves better than to be "reimagined" as a sick, tasteless, substandard remnant of its former glory.
It deserves to be finished.

[ninjabear]

Everything about Bumblestore Golaxapeer is substandard; but they lost me when that evil blonde robot B---- murdered the baby in his stroller while his mommy's back was turned.
That is the sickest, most disturbing thing I've ever seen (it even tops Vader murdering the younglings), and I will have no more if it.

The three things I hate most in the universe:
Pediphiles/child murderers
rapists
stalkers
just in case you were wondering why I'm so...vindictively opposed, to this steaming pile of dog dirt.

[majestic8471 (deleted)]

Everyone is entitled to their opinion no matter what it is but here is mine.
I love the new series. I have also seen the old series as well when I was growing up and the new one is so much better. To its credit the original series had a great premise, in fact one of the best of any sci-fi show but it never bothered to develop it satisfactorily. The new series while still in progress accomplishes that and so much more. It not only is about a race to find Earth but the Cylons are much more interesting this time. Because they are created by man and evolved on their own it allows for much more thought provolking stories. I find the Cylons concept of one deity and the humans believing in a pantheon intreguing. This adds depth as well.

To me what makes sci-fi great is the fact that it can comment on contempory issues and be an escape from reality at the same time. To me the most innovative sci-fi programs in chronological order are Star Trek (TOS) and Babylon 5. You will note that TOS and B5 are very different from one another. TOS is more scientific and B5 is more spiritual.
In TOS humans have evolved culturally into a very pacifistic culture of explorers (more noticable in TNG) while in B5 humans have many or most of the same foibles that contemporary humans have.

Babylon 5 could also be very intense and violent sometimes. There were a few very disturbing episodes. Well the new Battlestar Galactica is much like that in so many ways and in fact has become a little more violent than B5 graphically. As long as there is a real point to showing the graphic violence then I have no problem with it (such as Number 6 killing the baby and Sharons' rape). Also, both series are serialized.

James

[ninjabear]

I see no reason why we can't have a competing version of the real Battlestar; a continuation or at least, a better ending than the pitiful Galactica 1980---just give me a decent theatrical release, something!

Sci-fi Channel is a small pond full of underfed guppies; there's no way in hell I'll ever pay $50 bucks a month for television, let alone watch something so shabby as the average Sci-Fi Channel production. (I never thought anything would make me appreciate the Dino deLaurentis version of Dune, until Sci-Fi took a whack at it).
(Sigh) I suppose it's a sign of the times...lower expectations, lower standards. Well if you want to eat from a dumpster, I won't stop you; but don't ask me to grab a knife and fork then dive in there with you.