Ravenwood - 12/08/03 07:20 PM
The new Battlestar Galactica airs tonight. CNN notes that purists are bound to be outraged at the radical changes they've made. Personally, I felt that the miniseries could only survive if they changed all the characters, and kept the basic premise the same. They have done just the opposite.
Apparently the characters are all there, although Starbuck has undergone a sex change, and the struggle seems much more. . . Metrosexual.
Gone is the space fantasy with the dashing caped warriors of old. Now they're handsome heroes in uniforms akin to Air Force fighter pilots. The aluminum Cylon enemies look more like humans, complete with feelings, including one with rabid sexual desires.People that do not remember the original may not mind the radical changes, but that's not me. I'll tune in for a little while, but I plan on being disappointed.And the quest is not for a mythical Earth -- it no longer exists.
Did you read any of Richard Hatch's novels? For a purist, he was mucking with the premises quite a bit, too, by intimating that the Cylons were still lizards.
In the original series, doesn't Adama explain to Boxey that the Cylons were once a living race, but all that was left was the robot Cylons?
I digress. I might convince the wife to rent get the inevitable DVDs through Netflix, but I'm not sure it's worth a couple of nights, either.
Posted by: Brian J. at December 8, 2003 9:15 PMWhat? No big metal knight rider buzz light cylons? No "by your command" in that I just got back from my throat cancer operation voice?
And God forbid, what ever will they do with the real star of the show - Daggit the robot dog!?
I hope the chicky babes at least still have 'big hair'.
Apollo sucks- Starbuck rules
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