treatment Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 (edited) saw this from another forum i hang out in. http://www.dvdplanet.com/product_listing.a...SMailer20030908 looks very gnarly. gonna be released around 10/21/03. and it's the classic Battlestar Galactica. Not the upcoming new mangled one from Sci-Fi channel where Starbuck is a friggin girl. add: they say the red-light works, too! Edited September 10, 2003 by treatment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JsARCLIGHT Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 That case is sweet... but the sweetness of the case belies the awful awful contents... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDisco Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 (edited) now that's a box set. as for the contents..its a show from the 70s with a tv sized budget. I don't think it should be judged too harshly also if it looks as though the red eye does not light up but is of a lenticular variety (ie. shift the box slightly and it will 'move'). Edited September 10, 2003 by MrDisco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsu legato Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 Byyyy...yourrrr...command. Yeah, Galactica hasn't aged too well, IMHO. I watched it last year when Space was running it on weekends, and hooooboy, was it hard to sit through. Not nearly as bad as Galactica 1980, but bad enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treatment Posted September 10, 2003 Author Share Posted September 10, 2003 iirc, i stopped watching Galactica the moment the kid became the supreme commander or something. that was the lamest move back then. at least, Starbuck was extremely funny and the sexual innuendo was so rampant in the early episodes or something. damn i feel old. rol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JsARCLIGHT Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 Hey, maybee that is just the first set. Other sets to follow will feature the 3D faces of Lorne Green, the Imperius Leader, Dagget and Boxley! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAG Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 Sweet. Galactica was awesome....well before 1980 anyway. And thats really friggin sweet that the centurion's eye works. Anyone else gonna give the BG PS2 game a try? "See the evil robots from Battlestar Galactica fight the gay robots from Star Wars!" -The Simpsons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JsARCLIGHT Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 Actually... that's the new Cylon and Garfunkel CD that came out last week... Hello Imperius Leader, my old friend... I’ve said "by your command" again... Because the galacticans softly creeping, Left the quadrant while I was sleeping, And your foot... that was planted... in my brain... And it still remains Within the sound of Cylon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAG Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobywan Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 iirc, i stopped watching Galactica the moment the kid became the supreme commander or something. that was the lamest move back then.at least, Starbuck was extremely funny and the sexual innuendo was so rampant in the early episodes or something. damn i feel old. rol! Not old enough to remember the show correctly. You may be confusing some scenes from Galactica 1980 in with the original show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treatment Posted September 10, 2003 Author Share Posted September 10, 2003 (edited) iirc, i stopped watching Galactica the moment the kid became the supreme commander or something. that was the lamest move back then.at least, Starbuck was extremely funny and the sexual innuendo was so rampant in the early episodes or something. damn i feel old. rol! Not old enough to remember the show correctly. You may be confusing some scenes from Galactica 1980 in with the original show. never saw Galactica 1980. edit: ahhh, now i see. The boy-genius stuff was the Galactica-1980. Yup. I stopped watching Galactica then and there. Galactica without Starbuck (Dirk Benedict, i think) was just not the Galactica I used to watch. edit2: dirk benedict! geezus. I can barely remember the real name of Face! hahaha! --treatment-- Edited September 10, 2003 by treatment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsu legato Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 (edited) Starbuck (Baxter Poindexter, i think) For shame! Starbuck was played by none other than the Faceman himself, Dirk Benedict. Now for your pennence, I condemn you to watch the second season of Buck Rogers, Hawkman and all. Edit: You edit quickly, my son. But not quickly enough. Edited September 10, 2003 by bsu legato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treatment Posted September 10, 2003 Author Share Posted September 10, 2003 Starbuck (Baxter Poindexter, i think) For shame! Starbuck was played by none other than the Faceman himself, Dirk Benedict. Now for your pennence, I condemn you to watch the second season of Buck Rogers, Hawkman and all. Edit: You edit quickly, my son. But not quickly enough. yeah. rol! for some odd reason, i was thinkin Starbuck's/Face's name was Baxter instead of Dirk B. hahaha! I feel so old now. hahaha! --treatment-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combined arms Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 Battlestar Galactica was the greatest tv show ever! Well, at least it was to me as a five-year old. I think it has stood the test of time relatively well. It's storylines were better then than a lot of tv is now. Yes, the sfx are quite dated, but i would still rather have a show done with models than with all CG (a la Babylon 5). Galactica 1980 was a steaming pile, though. In fact, to demonstrate just how well i had blocked it from memory - for the most of my life i had a vivid memory of a nightmare involving Cylons, a Halloween Party and Wolfman Jack. At least i thought it was a nightmare, until I caught that episode of G'80 on SciFi one afternoon while I was in college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combined arms Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 I will likely buy that boxed set, but I hope it comes also in a regular (flat) box. The cylon face looks pretty, but it's a little impractical on a bookshelf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combined arms Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 As for the SciFi Channel's new BG mini-series, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. There are a few plot details that have snuck out that i'm unhappy about. (Like the fact that the Cylons will be former servants of humans. Hasn't that been done enough already? Matrix & Terminator franchises, among others) The female starbuck character does not bother me (yet). We'll see in December. I do wish that Richard Hatch (Apollo) was able to get his BG movie made. It would have been a direct sequel, 20 years after the original series ended. (Galactica '80 was to be forgotten.) He made a short, "proof of concept" film that was shown at a 'con a while back. Unfortunately, due to licensing issues, it isn't available on the web and won't see the light of day again any time soon. C'est la vie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treatment Posted September 11, 2003 Author Share Posted September 11, 2003 As for the SciFi Channel's new BG mini-series, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. There are a few plot details that have snuck out that i'm unhappy about. (Like the fact that the Cylons will be former servants of humans. Hasn't that been done enough already? Matrix & Terminator franchises, among others) The female starbuck character does not bother me (yet). We'll see in December.I do wish that Richard Hatch (Apollo) was able to get his BG movie made. It would have been a direct sequel, 20 years after the original series ended. (Galactica '80 was to be forgotten.) He made a short, "proof of concept" film that was shown at a 'con a while back. Unfortunately, due to licensing issues, it isn't available on the web and won't see the light of day again any time soon. C'est la vie. I'm still heavily bothered by the new Galactica having Starbuck as a woman. Lt. Starbuck was one of my (and alot of others' I know of) early heroes when I was growing up. The way he hits on and conducts himself among the women was just _the_ irreplaceable mark of Galactica to me and to alot of other boys who grew up with it. It was total sacriledge to have Starbuck dishonored by turning this classic sci-fi character into a woman. Why can't the writers of this new Galactica on Sci-Fi just friggin add an additional strong female-character into the story instead of desecrating the memory of Starbuck? Just way beyond comprehension, i tell yah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAG Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 I agree with treatment. They already had Athena (Adama's daughter) and Sheba (the pilot from the Pegasus), who were relatively strong female characters. Just give one of them a more pronounced role. Smells of changing things just for the sake of changing them to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain of the SDF-1 Macross Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 Byyyy...yourrrr...command. It also inspired to make Soundwave and Shockwave to say, "As you command, Megatron." The "As you command!" ended up as the mottos of RID Skyfire and Armada Demolisher in their tech specs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain of the SDF-1 Macross Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 Galactica 1980 was a steaming pile, though. In fact, to demonstrate just how well i had blocked it from memory - for the most of my life i had a vivid memory of a nightmare involving Cylons, a Halloween Party and Wolfman Jack. Ugh. Don't remind me. It's the lowest point the season sucked royal back then. The stuff Troy and Dillon did in that ep was also the lowest the duo had done for BG, such the musical number they did while avoiding the cops. And yeah, Cylons attempting to pass as Halloween cosplayers was a farce. I feel sorry for Lorne Greene (Adama) to star in this season, as you can see he had the worst time there. The only thing that managed to get a highpoint was the series finale, where Dirk Benedict played Starbucks for the last time and what happened to him (and no, he didn't go set up a chain of coffee houses worldwide). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain of the SDF-1 Macross Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 I do wish that Richard Hatch (Apollo) was able to get his BG movie made. It would have been a direct sequel, 20 years after the original series ended. (Galactica '80 was to be forgotten.) He made a short, "proof of concept" film that was shown at a 'con a while back. Unfortunately, due to licensing issues, it isn't available on the web and won't see the light of day again any time soon. C'est la vie. Not to mention that John Colicos (Baltar) played his role for the last time in Richard Hatch's "Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming". I miss that guy when I heard he passed on (but he managed to play the Klingon Kor for the last time in a blaze of glory). If the 2003 mini-series sucks, we hope that the higher-ups rethink their strategy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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