# Could Battlestar Galactica of been the next star wars?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 29, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-battlestar-galactica-of-been-the-next-star-wars/842635 "2019-10-29T04:40:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-battlestar-galactica-of-been-the-next-star-wars/842635/41 "2019-10-30T16:31:29Z")

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> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> Hollywood still doesn’t understand the vastness of space. There is a well known director who recently made a science fiction movie where they made a planet into a super weapon that sucks energy from its sun somehow, and then shoots a death ray across systems where it splits into different death rays, and then hits different planets, and people can stand there and watch, and the ray doesn’t seem to go through hyperspace, and it instantly blows up the target planets as soon as the death ray hits them.

What hack would make something so stupid? That’s right up there with sentient bugs shitting unguided rocks across interstellar distances, and having them hit specific targets.

yes I know who it was. George you can write this stuff, but it makes NO DAMN SENSE!

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-battlestar-galactica-of-been-the-next-star-wars/842635/42 "2019-10-30T17:33:19Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> yes I know who it was. George you can write this stuff, but it makes NO DAMN SENSE!

(George didn’t write that one though) 🙂

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-battlestar-galactica-of-been-the-next-star-wars/842635/43 "2019-10-30T17:56:57Z")

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> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> (George didn’t write that one though) 🙂

Huh! ( and I usually read credits…getting sloppy)

Well, that’s even worse! All three have written good movies.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-battlestar-galactica-of-been-the-next-star-wars/842635/44 "2019-10-30T18:08:40Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> People like to say things like that, and it wasn’t true then, and it isn’t true now. I give you two examples: Star Trek and Sharknado.

I do not for an instant understand how Sharknado has anything to do with this. I didn’t say ALL fantasy/sci fi stuff now is for adults.

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