If I remember, the general SDMB response to the recent Battlestar Galactica miniseries on the Sci-Fi Network was surprisingly positive.
So I’m happy to report that the show has been converted into a series starring most (or for all I know, all) of the original (new miniseries) cast.
I have high hopes for this.
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They made Starbuck into a woman.
This is unacceptable.
I don’t particularly care if “they handled it well” or “she’s really good in the part” or “you’d be surprised, but it works” or “but she’s a hot woman” [which she is, I’ll grant] or any of that. It’s just not something you do.
If you’re a straight guy who grew up in the 70’s: imagine if they made a new version of “Charlie’s Angels” in which the angels were played by men. Or a new version of that Farrah Fawcett poster where it was a dude in that pose and smiling like that. Or a new “Dukes of Hazzard” movie where Daisy were played by one of the stars of all those teen soap operas on the WB. It’s shudder-inducing, no? Now you can understand.
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I watched the pilot, expecting to find it crappy. I was truly surprised to find I liked it, changes notwithstanding. So I’ll watch the series, and hope it does well, and keeps the tone it had, the harder edge.
We’re three quarters of the way through the series here in the UK .
It’s really really good.
Which is * really * a surprise after the royal beatdown that the SciFi Channel gave to A Wizard of EarthSea.
I’ve seen the first two episodes of the new series and they are really good. Better than the mini-series I think. In the mini-seires they were trying too hard. They had to define how each character was like and unlike their original series counterpart.
As for making Starbuck a woman, they did it to Boomer too and personally I’m glad the women in this series are more equal to the men. Cassie was a whore in the original series and suddenly turned into a nurse. Then when the men were sick and they had to train women to fly vipers and they treated the women so badly storywise in that episode that it makes me cringe.
Isn’t that exactly what is going to happen?
You mean as opposed to the current stars? Jessica Simpson, Jackass and Stifler?
We have waited yarms for this new series.
[geek]I think you mean “yarens.”[/geek]
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Frack!
I watched several of SciFi’s original miniseries (Galactica, Dune, Earthsea) and Galactica was the only one that was watchable (and in fact pretty good). I think they should stick to revamping cheesy scifi series and books like Galactica (Buck Roger’s springs to mind, but no doubt there is no shortage of old cheesy TV series from the post StarWars period that had some good ideas that could be harvested) instead of beloved classics like Dune and Earthsea. They seem to get intimidated or something when they go after the classics, and the result is flat and disappointing.
I’m looking forward to Galactica, especially with the dearth of good scifi series lately.
They’ve been running a LOT of commercials for this thing on SciFi for the past couple of weeks. I’m looking forward to it, but I missed the miniseries back when it was on. Are they going to replay it before the regular series begins?
moar Grace Park .
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In order to play the role of Starbuck, a thespian must do four things:
I wouldn’t mind seeing a woman play that role. 
I’ll try to watch it, but I don’t have as much of a problem with recasting women in the guy roles as I do with changing the Cylons into humans. I’ll really miss the red dots moving side-to-side, the glowy brains of the “smart” ones, and that inflection-free “By your command”…
They kept those Cylons, didn’t they. They were shown in the first scene of the miniseries as I recall, they appeared to be servants or footsoldiers or something to the human-ceylons.
Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me?
If they kept them, then I am much relieved!
Hey!
Is this going to be like this thread where we pretend we haven’t seen these before…?
Just kidding. I’ve managed to stay current on this series so far, and it rocks.
Tangent , the DVD of the mini-series comes out just after Christmas. Definitely worth the rent, IMHO. I’ll probably actually shell out the bucks and buy the thing.
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