# Battlestar Galactica miniseries **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305 "2004-02-26T16:47:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/1 "2004-02-26T16:47:45Z")
Just seen this miniseries. I did a quick search to find the obligatory discussion I’d missed, and couldn’t find one. Just threads about people saying it was going to be terrible because starbuck was a girl. Anyone seen this? I started watching it a couple of nights ago. I really wasn’t expecting much. It sounded like desperation on the part of the sci-fi channel to try and revive this. I used to love it as a kid, but I thought it would be far to cheesy now. As it turned out, I really enjoyed it. This is one of the best “re-imagining”'s I’ve seen. It brought the idea up to date, and made it aimed at a more adult audience. Seemed like a good idea, as the audience who used to enjoy the old show are now all grown up, and can enjoy the show all over again. Really enjoyed the characters to this show. They got more development in a couple of hours that the cast of Enterprise got in two series. The new starbuck worked really well. I loved… The scene at the end where she deliberately collided with Apollo to drag him back to Galactica. I liked the darkness of it all. Particularly… The way number six killed the baby and The scene when they had to leave the STL ships behind. That was heart wrenching. Overall, it was excellent. I can’t wait for the series to start. I hope they can maintain this pace of story and not just resort to the “Planet of the week” format of soooooo many trek shows. ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/2 "2004-02-26T17:26:01Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#): > > Just seen this miniseries. I did a quick search to find the obligatory discussion I’d missed, and couldn’t find one. Just threads about people saying it was going to be terrible because starbuck was a girl. I rather liked it. It was not the '70s original, but neither am I, anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/3 "2004-02-26T17:58:19Z")
I have to agree. The thing that really struck me was actual, realistic space flight (i.e. the fighters didn’t respond and fly like Tomcats in a fluid environment). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/4 "2004-02-26T18:22:52Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#): > > Overall, it was excellent. I can’t wait for the series to start. I hope they can maintain this pace of story and not just resort to the “Planet of the week” format of soooooo many trek shows. They’re setting out with the stated intent to avoid doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/5 "2004-02-26T21:03:45Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > They’re setting out with the stated intent to avoid doing that. Yeah, I know. I put it in quotes as I heard Ron Moore saying it. Still, I wonder if they can avoid it. After all, Galactica is essentially boldly going where no caprican has gone before. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/6 "2004-02-27T01:22:04Z")
I was quite impressed with the Viper maneuvers during the combat scene. I haven’t seen usage of momentum in space for a long time. Was it like that in the original series? (I was only 6 at the time) Minor quibble, but I thought Starbuck sounded like that female Rimmer from the Red Dwarf episode ‘Parallel Universe’. Sounded like she was OD’ing on testosterone injections. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/7 "2004-02-27T01:27:18Z")
Thoroughly well done. I particularly liked the sense of scale in the space scenes. For instance showing apparently nothing, and then zooming at high speed into a dot which becomes a cylon ship or a tiny ship landing in galactica. Is it going to continue? Is that a stupid question? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/8 "2004-02-27T01:31:41Z")
I loved the much more realistic presentation of space warfare. The NUKES! The special “AWAC” ship that occompanied the fighter squadron. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/9 "2004-02-27T01:51:06Z")
> [@Rabid\_Squirrel](#): > > I was quite impressed with the Viper maneuvers during the combat scene. I haven’t seen usage of momentum in space for a long time. Was it like that in the original series? (I was only 6 at the time) Not at all. In the original series, the vipers banked like airplanes. The original _BS Galactica_ came out hot on the heels of the success of the first _Star Wars_ movie, and was in many respects a _Star Wars_ clone. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/10 "2004-02-27T01:54:14Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#): > > I hope they can maintain this pace of story and not just resort to the “Planet of the week” format of soooooo many trek shows. Or, for that matter, of soooooo many episodes of the original _Galactica_ series. Here’s a poem I read in an old issue of _Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine_, which came out shortly after the original _Galactica_ aired: Blasterfight at the OK Corral The Cylon delivered the threat, And Starbuck was starting to sweat. The rest I’ll pretend 'Cause I don’t know the end, I busted the knob off my set. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/11 "2004-02-27T03:01:11Z")
There WAS a thread on it but damned if I can find it now. The feedback was 99% positive with a few people having minor complaints. Can’t wait for the series to go full steam ahead. ---
**Author:** ![rdky1997](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c67d28/32.png) [@rdky1997](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rdky1997)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/12 "2004-02-27T05:07:47Z")
I hated it ,it was more of a patetic soap opera than anything else.altho the new cylons were interesting,and yes I hate the fact that starbuck was a girl,and appolo was a jerk. rich in seattle ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/13 "2004-02-27T08:21:14Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Not at all. In the original series, the vipers banked like airplanes. The original _BS Galactica_ came out hot on the heels of the success of the first _Star Wars_ movie, and was in many respects a _Star Wars_ clone. Wasn’t one of its selling points the fact that they’d hired away the guy who did the space battles for _Star Wars_? ---
**Author:** ![Galanthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Galanthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galanthus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/14 "2004-02-27T10:52:06Z")
Totally silent space craft!! The whines, buzzes and roars of spaceships in sci-fi shows has made my teeth grate for years. At last someone had the courage not to dumb down sci-fi for darmatic effect. The show had it’s flaws but on the whole I loved it. ---
**Author:** ![drewcosten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@drewcosten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewcosten)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-miniseries/231305/15 "2004-02-27T14:11:58Z")
> [@Galanthus](#): > > Totally silent space craft!! The whines, buzzes and roars of spaceships in sci-fi shows has made my teeth grate for years. > > At last someone had the courage not to dumb down sci-fi for darmatic effect. The show had it’s flaws but on the whole I loved it. Yes, Joss Whedon’s Firefly was good, wasn’t it? Oops, sorry, wrong thread. 🙂