Why Ron Moore owns my Soul

[Improv Geek]

I'm twenty two years old. I've seen Star Wars. I used to come home from school and watch Star Trek: The Next Generation. I've watched Babylon 5, Firefly, Enterprise, Stargate, and all the other types of Sci fi shows. I'd say I'm a normal fan of Firefly, Star Wars and Star Trek. I could do trivia, I could hang out with those fans at Sci fi conventions and not feel out of place, though I would not be in the upper echelons of their geekdom.

Battlestar Galactica is a different story.

This is the first scifi show which has hooked me, I mean I didn't just swallow the hook, I fucking got hogtied in the line. I mean this is some serious stuff. I've got both seasons on DVD, I read fan fiction online (and am trying my hand at writing my own, in theory.) I've got bookmarks to fan sites, I've watched all the webisodes, I even went out and bought some of the cards from their new CCG - but on top of that I am going to get mom to help me make a BSG uniform for me to wear in all my geekery.

This is the first scifi show that I have scheduled life around. Unfortunately I work Friday nights now, but I will be watching it every night on Tivo when I get home. Without fail.

And that is why Ron Moore owns my soul.

-- IG

[Cervaise]

Originally Posted by Improv Geek

I am going to get mom to help me make a BSG uniform for me to wear in all my geekery.

You lost me here.

Are you aware that there's an official tie-in comic book, also?

see here

I haven't read it myself; it's supposed to be passable but not that great.

[GuanoLad]

But do you watch the original series?

[carnivorousplant]

Originally Posted by GuanoLad

But do you watch the original series?

Good gad, the 70's hair, the flying moto...
I beg your pardon, Sir, are you a fan of the original?

[silenus]

Originally Posted by carnivorousplant

Good gad, the 70's hair, the flying moto...
I beg your pardon, Sir, are you a fan of the original?

There were no flying motorcycles in BSG/TOS. None. Not ever. Period.

[carnivorousplant]

Originally Posted by silenus

There were no flying motorcycles in BSG/TOS. None. Not ever. Period.

Of course not. It's like that alleged Star Trek movie where Spock had a brother. Some silly fan-fic movie. I undoubtedly saw some fan fic episode made in someone's basement with a super 8.
Sorry if I caused you any distress.

[alphaboi867]

Originally Posted by silenus

There were no flying motorcycles in BSG/TOS. None. Not ever. Period.

To be fair the flying motorcycles were built for TOS, but since TOS was cancelled they were never used in any movie or TV series.

[Raguleader]

What's funny is one of my favorite TOS-era episodes was the last episode of G1980. Helped that the entire episode took place just after the original series, in the form of a flashback/dreamsequence, with lots of Starbuck goofy goodness.

That said, it can't hold a match to "Living Legend", but few things can.

[silenus]

I had a dream about something like that. The last mission of Starbuck....

Too bad they never made it. It would have been interesting to see. But with the cancellation of the original BSG, all that could have been, good or bad, vanished forever. Until Ron Moore (Praise be his name!) came to lead us from the darkness tinto.....well, more darkness, but that's irrelevant. He is our leader, and we must not question him (until at least Season 5).

[N9IWP]

I just bought the season 2.5 DVD (I don't have cable)
It requires extreme willpower on my part not to watch all the episodes in one sitting.
I thoght I'd watch the 1st couple of scenes of Epiphanies (Ep 3) -- nope watched the whole wthing. Only the fact that I would have to load the DVD kept me from watching the next episode...

Brian

[Zsofia]

Finally got a chance to sit down with 2.5 last night - we just watched the extended Pegasus, because we didn't want to watch the rest tired. We'll burn through the rest of the first disc tonight.

I don't know if we can watch it in realtime, though. I mean... commercials? And no anamorphic widescreen?

[Cisco]

See, I wanted to like BSG, and I just didn't get it. I tried to watch the first episode when SciFi.com posted it online, just after the premier. I tried to watch it 2 or 3 times IIRC, and I was completely and utterly lost. I eventually came to the conclusion that you had to be familiar with TOS to know what the hell was going on and I quit trying.

That (Asian?) chick I always see in the commercials is incredibly hot, though.

[Tamerlane]

Originally Posted by Cisco

See, I wanted to like BSG, and I just didn't get it. I tried to watch the first episode when SciFi.com posted it online, just after the premier. I tried to watch it 2 or 3 times IIRC, and I was completely and utterly lost. I eventually came to the conclusion that you had to be familiar with TOS to know what the hell was going on and I quit trying.

Hmmm...was this the first episode of season 1 ( or even worse, season 2 )? If so, I can see why you'd be lost. The show started out as a 3-hour ( I think ) miniseries. After it did great in the ratings it was turned into a series. All the setup is in the miniseries, NOT the regular season episodes. TOS is necessary only to pick out the homages and such.

If you want to give it a try, I'd recommend renting the first disc of the "season 1" DVD, which actually contains the miniseries. Of course if that was what you saw, I guess I can't help .

That (Asian?) chick I always see in the commercials is incredibly hot, though.

Yes. Yes, she is.

- Tamerlane

[Cisco]

Originally Posted by Tamerlane

Hmmm...was this the first episode of season 1

IIRC it was the first episode of season 1. I vaguely remember a guy on an aircraft that looked kind of like the inside of a jetliner, time travel, flashbacks, etc.

I'm glad to hear I should've been lost and it wasn't just my ADD.

[Raguleader]

Well, the airliner looking spaceship is Colonial One. It's basically a spacefaring airliner that was carrying the Secretary of Education back to Caprica when every single person (all 42 of them, IIRC) above her in the line of succession to the office of President was killed in the Cylon blitz. It was originally called Colonial Heavy 435 or something mundane along those lines. It's more or less her flying capital, with her running the civilian side of things with her staff of whoever she could find on that ship, and Adama running the military side of things from Galactica. Nice seperation of military and state, I guess.

[Cervaise]

Originally Posted by Cisco

time travel

No idea what you might be recalling here. BSG is as hard-SF a series as TV has ever done. Nothing close to time travel on the show.

I just showed the extended Pegasus to a group of people I've been helping work through season two to get caught up before the premiere in two weeks (bounce bounce bounce). It was their first time. They were predictably frakked up, and screamed at me at the end when the "to be continued" popped up. "When can we get together again?" they demanded. Heh heh.

[MacTech]

Originally Posted by carnivorousplant

Of course not. It's like that alleged Star Trek movie where Spock had a brother. Some silly fan-fic movie. I undoubtedly saw some fan fic episode made in someone's basement with a super 8.
Sorry if I caused you any distress.

It's similar to the rumoured 2nd Nightmare on Elm Street movie that never got made, although i can't for the life of me figure out *why* the Nightmare on Elm Street series goes from NOES to NOES 3 "Dream Warriors", you'd think they'd make a second movie, but they didn't....