# Why is it a good idea to reprise Battlestar Galactica? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668 "2003-07-20T01:11:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/21 "2003-07-20T15:40:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Women that with the exception of serina and athena , were pretty much limited to the exploited bimbo or distressed woman role. Hey…what about **Sheba** the viper pilot who kicked Apollo’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/22 "2003-07-20T15:53:22Z")
oh thats right , i just had the name wrong, i mixed up serina with sheba oops , sorry all Declan ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/23 "2003-07-21T13:47:02Z")
Well, it’s already been said in a way, but: SciFi never met a bad idea they didn’t like. It has name “brand recognition”, a core of loyal viewers of reruns, and fans of the various new novels and comics. Richard Hatch found out there was sincere interest with his trailer for his misguided “attempt” to bring it back. It has slightly stayed in the public consciousness with pop cultural mentions and the fact that Viper vs. Cyclon fighter footage has been turning up in commercials (usually for TVs) for years on end since the original series ended. Got to admit, I’m curious, even though my vague childhood memories of the show went bust once I saw the series again years later. _Galactica 1980_ went beyond pathetic into pure network cyncism. But part of me hopes Edward James Olmos plays Adama like Jaime Escalante in _Stand And Deliver_, that alone would make a possible future series watchable for weird camp value. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/24 "2003-07-21T14:04:04Z")
Dammit, they kept the [kid.](http://www.startrek.about.com/blbgpix1.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muldoon_s_Squishiness)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/25 "2003-07-21T20:07:45Z")
It isn’t, but apparently the screaming and bleating from the geeks and nerds including the bozos at ain’t it cool got to be too much. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/26 "2003-07-21T20:17:36Z")
Because the eight-year-olds who ate it up in the ‘80s now have the disposable income to spend on adult-oriented "collectors’ itms" from a new show? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/27 "2003-07-22T03:15:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by widdershins \* > \*\*Richard Hatch found out there was sincere interest with his trailer for his misguided “attempt” to bring it back… > > Got to admit, I’m curious, even though my vague childhood memories of the show went bust once I saw the series again years later. _Galactica 1980_ went beyond pathetic into pure network cyncism.\*\* I got the impression from hearing Mr. Hatch speak at a scifi convention where he was the guest of honour, (So I’m a geek. What’s yer point? 🙂 ) that his plan was to completely ignore and disregard _Galactica 1980_ and continue from where the original series left off, in much the same way that the _Highlander_ TV series ignored the 2nd and 3rd movies… and a bit of the 1st. It might work… though I won’t hold my breath. (Might however buy a Viper toy for my little lad if they come out). 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 12, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/28 "2003-08-12T02:54:09Z")
I was hoping they’d redo the Cylons to match the original conception of them: highly cybernized and gene-engineered alien warriors, similar to the Chigs on Space Above and Beyond. Instead, in our 21st-century age of CGI, we’re getting the oldest, cheapest, sleaziest cliche in SF filmdom: the bad guys can disguise themselves as humans. [barf smiley] ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/29 "2003-08-12T11:36:56Z")
> [@](#): > > in much the same way that the Highlander TV series ignored the 2nd and 3rd movies… **and a bit of the 1st.** Yeah, like THE ENDING! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/30 "2003-08-12T12:17:49Z")
Because you can never have enough bad SciFi on TV. Where do you think bad reruns come from? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/31 "2003-08-12T16:12:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Lumpy > I was hoping they’d redo the Cylons to match the original conception of them: highly cybernized and gene-engineered alien warriors, similar to the Chigs on Space Above and Beyond. It will probably suck just like Space Above and Beyond. Of course the best thing about the original was the cameo by Loyd Bridges as the commander of another battlestar. “We’ll do this the old Colonial Fleet way…first man to die…loses!” ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/32 "2003-08-12T18:37:03Z")
Quite frankly, even after 24 or so years, I still like the orchestral theme song. Rather uplifting and inspiring, don’t you think, for a show about lonely and hopeless refugees under constant seige they desperately search for salvation. Actually, that’s about all I remember, even though I watched all the episodes (NOT Galactica 1980, though). OK, so I do remember the battlestar, and the Cylons (which my mom insisted on calling ‘Klingons’, and the fighters (‘Hey, didn’t they rip them off from Star wars…’) And that stupid annoying little yappy robot dog (the Wesley Crusher of it’s day)… ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/33 "2003-08-12T18:41:03Z")
Words…fail. And I just choked on my soft drink. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/34 "2003-08-12T18:59:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by msmith537 \* > \*\*It will probably suck just like Space Above and Beyond. > \*\* Blasphemy. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/35 "2003-08-12T22:36:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kasuo \* > Blasphemy. \*\* Please. I hate to shatter your image of Starship Troopers Light, but that show did, in fact, suck. The aliens were lumbering goons that looked like a cross between lobsters and the creatures from Krull. The ships looked gay. The characters were all 1 dimensional (and not in a fun way), played by anonymous leftovers from X Files and Millenium episodes. It had nearly every war movie cliche - the soldier stranded on an unexploded mine, the guy who joins the military to impress/find a girl, the lone sniper, a Wake Island style siege, POWs forced to battle Sparticus style, a trapped squad on the border of total moral collapse. The only thing missing was a gunner trapped in a ball-turret. Throw in a bunch of standard sci-fi crap about AI, cloning and evil corporations and you have the makings of a fairly mediocre and predictable sci-fi series. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/36 "2003-08-12T22:52:48Z")
I vote for Above and Beyond being cool. Beat the hell of of Battlestar Ponderosa. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/37 "2003-08-12T23:28:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*Battlestar Galactica was a show I always wanted to be cool. But it never was. \*\* Oh yeah? What about that episode where everyone was gambling and having a great time until they got in that elevator which took them into the lower floors where bee people stuck them into honeycombs and used them for food? That was cool. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/38 "2003-08-13T00:38:45Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by msmith537 \* > \*\* a trapped squad on the border of total moral collapse._\* Morale? Or do you mean they were on the verge of disobeying orders about fraternization and having a unit orgy? 😃 BTW: I never saw the last episode of S:A&B, which one poster once described as “a fuck-you to the audience from the writers”. Can someone give me a spoiler please? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/39 "2003-08-13T01:02:54Z")
They killed or shot down everyone, I believe, knowing that the show was to end. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/40 "2003-08-13T03:12:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by msmith537 \* > \*\*Please. I hate to shatter your image of Starship Troopers Light, but that show did, in fact, suck. > > SNIP \*\* **Starship Troopers** light? Does that mean everything but the fascism and the flogging? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668.md?page=3)