# I just watched Galactica 1980 on DVD... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770 "2007-12-31T04:39:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/21 "2008-01-01T00:00:35Z")
[QUOTE=chorpler] Looking back, it looks quite probable that you’re right, and **simster** was making a joke of the “ **Godfather III**? What are you talking about? They came out with **Godfather** and **Godfather II** AND THAT’S ALL!” type. **But quite frankly I had never heard of Galactica 1980 myself, despite being aware of the 1978 series and the new re-imagined series, so I didn’t realize it.** Heh heh … thanks for letting me know, my dear chap. [/QUOTE] You think maybe there was a reason you had never heard of it? I lived thru those years… I still bear the scars…the night terrors… The only way I’ve learned to cope was to believe that it was all a bad dream - yep to deny its very existance. Thanks for ruining years of repression. (:D) Logan’s Run, the TV series - yep - right there on the checklist - only good thing about it was deciding to find and read the book the original was based on. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/22 "2008-01-01T00:02:59Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] What the hell were you thinking??? :mad: 😛 [/QUOTE] I was hoping the disks would have some kind of MST3K-type audio commentary on them. I also have TOS in my queue. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/23 "2008-01-01T00:13:46Z")
[QUOTE=simster] You think maybe there was a reason you had never heard of it? I lived thru those years… I still bear the scars…the night terrors… The only way I’ve learned to cope was to believe that it was all a bad dream - yep to deny its very existance. Thanks for ruining years of repression. [/QUOTE] Oh, man … I’m sorry, man … dude, I … I didn’t know, dude. I didn’t know! I DIDN’T KNOW! I’M SORRY, MAN! I’M SORRY! \ ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/24 "2008-01-01T00:15:21Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] I was hoping the disks would have some kind of MST3K-type audio commentary on them. I also have TOS in my queue. [/QUOTE] \ Are there any shows that actually DO have MST3K-style self-deprecating commentary? That would be supremely cool. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/25 "2008-01-01T01:00:49Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] The original Galactica was TV’s answer to _Star Wars_. [/QUOTE] Hah! Beat you by 2 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/26 "2008-01-01T01:05:20Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Hah! Beat you by 2 minutes. [/QUOTE] Foiled again! I’ll get you **John Mace** , I’ll get you! ---
**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:** [January 1, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/27 "2008-01-01T01:45:59Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] I’ll let you in on a little secret. Despite how much I liked it when it first came out, the original BSG sucked too. A wild west shootout with a Cylon? The mechanical dog? Yech. [/QUOTE] Although the new BSG strictly rations nods to the original show (the pilot and the recent **Razor** movie being major exceptions), there’s one I’d like to see: the two Adamas are going through a crate of old belongings that got put into storage when William Adama first took command, and they pull out a Daggit™ doll. It’s computerized like one of those walking barking dog dolls, and Adama Sr. comments on how after the first Cylon war they were banned since nothing mobile, even toys, was allowed to be controlled by a computer chip anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/28 "2008-01-01T02:23:07Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] Although the new BSG strictly rations nods to the original show (the pilot and the recent **Razor** movie being major exceptions), there’s one I’d like to see: the two Adamas are going through a crate of old belongings that got put into storage when William Adama first took command, and they pull out a Daggit™ doll. It’s computerized like one of those walking barking dog dolls, and Adama Sr. comments on how after the first Cylon war they were banned since nothing mobile, even toys, was allowed to be controlled by a computer chip anymore. [/QUOTE] And then the Daggit™ doll shows why by animating, and with an electronic shriek latches onto one of their faces like a facehugger from the Aliens movies. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/29 "2008-01-01T05:17:26Z")
When you watched Galatica 1980, did they play Beethoven music too? ---
**Author:** ![Sockmunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Sockmunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sockmunkey)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/30 "2008-01-01T13:21:20Z")
The thing I hated most about it is that they made the galactica crew so socially cluless when dealing with “mere earthers”. Not knowing the culture is one thing, not knowing how “people” act is just idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/31 "2008-01-01T14:02:27Z")
[QUOTE=chorpler] \ Are there any shows that actually DO have MST3K-style self-deprecating commentary? That would be supremely cool. [/QUOTE] There’s Mike Nelson’s [RiffTrax](http://www.rifftrax.com/) but that’s not quite the same thing. And damn you people, I think I feel some long-repressed memories trying to break through! ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/32 "2008-01-01T15:10:57Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] When you watched Galatica 1980, did they play Beethoven music too? [/QUOTE] I have this sudden urge to commit ultraviolent acts and drink milk. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/33 "2008-01-01T18:29:36Z")
> [@](#): > > they pull out a Daggit™ doll. Oh, and I should have added: “from that show you used to watch when you were a kid.” ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/34 "2008-01-01T21:14:06Z")
[QUOTE=Sockmunkey] The thing I hated most about it is that they made the galactica crew so socially cluless when dealing with “mere earthers”. Not knowing the culture is one thing, not knowing how “people” act is just idiocy. [/QUOTE] Or speaking perfect American English except for random words dealing with technology (I wonder the teams sent to the USSR speak). I’ll admit it was a little fun to see Andromus again. Did Larson have plans to introduce humanoid Cylons in TOS if it got renewed? I know the flying motorcycles for meant for the series. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/35 "2008-01-01T21:30:16Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] And to think that in junior high all I wanted was a colonial viper pilot’s jacket. Come to think of it, it’d still be cool. [/QUOTE] Happy New Years! [May all your wishes come true.](http://www.ketzer.com/movie_props_replicas/BSG_jacket.html) ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/36 "2008-01-01T21:34:34Z")
[QUOTE=ExTank] Happy New Years! [May all your wishes come true.](http://www.ketzer.com/movie_props_replicas/BSG_jacket.html) [/QUOTE] Ooh, it even has the US Army Military Intelligence branch insignia on it. I served with them, and have some originals. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/37 "2008-01-02T14:13:42Z")
[QUOTE=ExTank] Happy New Years! [May all your wishes come true.](http://www.ketzer.com/movie_props_replicas/BSG_jacket.html) [/QUOTE] Wow! That may have to be purchased before my dining room chairs, Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/38 "2008-01-03T02:36:04Z")
No problem. There’s better copies than that available with just a little shopping; that was what turned up in a Google. I have no idea what your budget looks like, nor the depths of your fandom, but it seems to me that your jacket would look great with [these.](http://www.motorcowboy.com/product/B1/_Battlestar_Galactica_Boots_Prop_Replica.html) ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/39 "2008-01-03T04:49:16Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] And then the Daggit™ doll shows why by animating, and with an electronic shriek latches onto one of their faces like a facehugger from the Aliens movies. [/QUOTE] I think it would be funnier if it latched onto his crotch instead. Crotch is always funny. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770/40 "2008-01-03T04:58:04Z")
Of course, the big question is how does BSG: '80 compare to [**The Star Wars Holiday Special**](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544), just the special, not the [Rifftrax commentary](http://shop.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/star-wars-holiday-special) that vastly improves it, just the show I’d hazard a guess that TSWHS is worse than BSG: '80, because BSG '80 DOES NOT HAVE FIFTEEN MINUTES OF UN-SUBTITLED WOOKIE-ESE fifteen minutes of walking carpets growling and grunting, culminating in the worst variety show acts imaginable TSWHS makes **Manos; The Hands of Fate** look like Shakespeare but since I’m a fan of bad movies, I’ll eventually have to see G: '80 just to see how bad it is… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-galactica-1980-on-dvd/431770.md?page=3)