# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Dreaming\_of\_Maria\_Callas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@Dreaming\_of\_Maria\_Callas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dreaming_of_Maria_Callas)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/41 "2003-08-13T11:39:55Z")
…'cause Hollywood religious allegory sci-fi is rare. (Though unfortunately the print market is glutted with crappy Mormon allegory sci-fi thanks to that hack Orson Scott Card). UnuMondo ---
**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, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/42 "2003-08-13T12:14:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UnuMondo \* > \*\*. crappy Mormon allegory … hack Orson Scott Card). > \*\* I agree with the hack part, and he seems to like to write about naked children, but I’m not familiar enough with LDS to know about alleory; have you an example? Thanks, CP ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/43 "2003-08-13T12:52:08Z")
The original _Battlestar Galactica_ was brainless goofy fun. Occasionally, even _good_ brainless goofy fun. A soulless CGI-poisoned remake does not sound like it’s going to be fun at all … but will almost certainly still be brainless. Brainless and not fun; not a good combination. (Reminds me, in fact, of _Space: Above and Beyond_, which sucked hard enough to clean carpets…) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/44 "2003-08-13T15:32:47Z")
It is a good idea to reprise BG because it will make everything else on the schedule look good by comparison. The SciFi Channel killed Farscape and Lexx for the reverse reason. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/45 "2003-08-13T17:45:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UnuMondo \* > \*\*…'cause Hollywood religious allegory sci-fi is rare. > > (Though unfortunately the print market is glutted with crappy Mormon allegory sci-fi thanks to that hack Orson Scott Card). > > UnuMondo \*\* Hack? HACK?! Oh, if only I could have one little molecular detachment device…just one Little Doctor, it’s all I ask, is that so much? I’d show you “hack”… Admittedly, pretty much everything he did that wasn’t Ender-related was kinda lame. And some of his stuff is annoyingly religious. But the Ender stuff more than makes up for it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/46 "2003-08-13T20:02:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\*According to the Sci-fi channel [Battlestar Galactica](http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/) is coming back as a new series. > > It was amusing at times, but overall it is the absolute archetype of silly 80’s cheeze fest sci-fi. Are we so bereft of new ideas we have to go digging in the creative trash barrel to retrieve old “B” quality sci-fi plots for series? What is the logic behind all this. I can’t seem to make sense of it. \*\* What is the number one movie in the country right now? What is the number two movie in the country right now? If you don’t know the answers are S.W. A. T. and Freaky Friday. Remakes are seen as a safer investment than new stuff. Plus the worst part of the old BG was the flight scenes. Sure they were great the first time you saw them but they had a set of flight scenes that were used over and over and over and today makeing new flight scenes is a snap. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/47 "2003-08-13T20:42:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by msmith537 \* > \*\*…The ships looked gay. \*\* How do spaceships look “Gay” (rainbow colored hull platting, computer has a lisp, or it has a fab-u-lous reactor core?) and where can I buy one? 😉 If I get my cable back in time I’ll tune in to see how bad it is. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/48 "2003-08-13T21:48:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*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. \*\* 😛 Thanks for the memories. ---
**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 13, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/49 "2003-08-13T22:12:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by World Eater \* > \*\*😛 > > Thanks for the memories. \*\* 😃 As long as we’re traveling down memory lane, check out [this](http://www.blast.net/hart/SAGAOFASTARWORLD.htm) original TV Guide ad for the 3 hour pilot. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/50 "2003-08-14T02:59:50Z")
Think they’ll have socialators in the new mini-series? And since the powers that be have played around with gender switching(Boomer and Starbuck are _female_), maybe there would be male sociolators. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/51 "2003-08-14T13:13:42Z")
Personally, I think the new Starbuck isn’t female…instead he’s a crossdresser now…as revealed by the series special twist ending (in a nod to Sleepaway Camp). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/52 "2003-08-14T15:14:28Z")
Well, I see that the new **Galactica** , like **Enterprise** , will have a [panda.](http://www.startrek.about.com/library/graphics/bg42.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/53 "2003-08-14T15:27:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slortar \* > \*\*Personally, I think the new Starbuck isn’t female…instead he’s a crossdresser now…as revealed by the series special twist ending (in a nod to Sleepaway Camp). 😃 \*\* Q: When Apollo jumps the cross dressing Starbuck in the pilot’s lounge to eliviate the sexual tension between them, does he make him shout “By Your Command”? ---
**Author:** ![Myria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Myria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myria)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/54 "2003-08-14T17:47:43Z")
Poor cylo-Panda, that light so inconveniently at crotch level and that see-through dress. You’d think a former VS model would know better, but I suppose there’s a reason the Cylons never invented slips. The old Cylons had metal skirts, lights didn’t pass through 'em. Half the ads for this show make it look like some sort of porno flick. Weird, very weird. Myria ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/55 "2003-08-15T04:05:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Are we so bereft of new ideas we have to go digging in the creative trash barrel to retrieve old “B” quality sci-fi plots for series? No, we’re not. It was called **Firefly**. What we lack are non-brain-dead studio execs who know how to promote and nurture good science fiction. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/56 "2003-08-15T06:41:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \* > **The problem is, the fans will hate it - it’s not a continuation like _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ was,** I read the guy who is playing the new Commander Adama pretty much came out & told fans of the original series to “not watch the new miniseries.” I’m not sure the producer was too happy about that. > [@](#): > > \*\* the Cylons aren’t robots anymore, they’re basically indistinguishable from humans! > > Argh! > > Or at least, I’m pretty sure that’s what they did. Maybe they wised up in-between-times and corrected that. Hope so. \*\* They now have two types of Cylon: Updated bad-ass android type, and vixen bimbo type. Think they’ll have some studly bim_boy_ Cylons? Nooooooo. ---
**Author:** ![Dreaming\_of\_Maria\_Callas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@Dreaming\_of\_Maria\_Callas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dreaming_of_Maria_Callas)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/57 "2003-08-15T13:15:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*I agree with the hack part, and he seems to like to write about naked children, but I’m not familiar enough with LDS to know about alleory; have you an example? > Thanks, > CP \*\* His “Tales Of Alvin Maker” series is an allegory on the life of LDS founder Joseph Smith. His “Homecoming” series is an allegory of the first portion of the Book of Mormon. In fact, he came under fire for this, because never before had the LDS church seen sci-fi Mormon allegory, and they didn’t know what to make of it. He made an eloquent defense (perhaps still available on his website), and now things have cooled off. UnuMondo ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/58 "2003-08-15T22:19:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lawoot \* > \*\*Well, I see that the new **Galactica** , like **Enterprise** , will have a [panda.](http://www.startrek.about.com/library/graphics/bg42.jpg) \*\* And there will have to be fan fic n’ slash too. Betcha can’t wait! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/59 "2003-08-15T23:18:11Z")
Actually, the Cylons, with their complete deadpan, had some hilarious lines. By why-oh-why? Still, i has to be better than Firefly. Now, Buck Rogers- if there is plenty of skin-tight spandex & sexy costumes, that could be a hit. At least for me, anyway. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668/60 "2003-08-15T23:18:12Z")
Actually, the Cylons, with their complete deadpan, had some hilarious lines. By why-oh-why? Still, it has to be better than Firefly. Now, Buck Rogers- if there is plenty of skin-tight spandex & sexy costumes, that could be a hit. At least for me, anyway. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-good-idea-to-reprise-battlestar-galactica/189668.md?page=4)