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Battlestar Galactica Hypothetical

Charlemagne

Charlemagne

Holy Roman Emperor
If you could make your own version of Battlestar Galactica... what would it look like? Would it combine aspects of the original 1978 series and Ronald D. Moore's reboot? Or would it go in its own way?
 
Full boys style nudity and violence.
 
No Cylons. They'd all be copies of Bender from Futurama.
 
It would be more the quasi-mystical ambience of old school BSG (though there was some in Nu-BSG). Adama would be a little more like a real naval commander as Nu-BSG depicted. The characters would be better behaved like in the OS BSG. The SFX would be on par with Nu-BSG... which still hold up really well...

There would be more hot women. Six looked like a generic LA stripper, Starbuck looked like ass. Boomer was hot. My vision of the show would have women at least on par with the babes of the OS BSG. In tight black body suits.

This sight still makes my peepee stiff.

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I just want Adama to break character and do an Alpo commercial.
 
The Beer Hall Pooch said:
It would be more the quasi-mystical ambience of old school BSG (though there was some in Nu-BSG). Adama would be a little more like a real naval commander as Nu-BSG depicted. The characters would be better behaved like in the OS BSG. The SFX would be on par with Nu-BSG... which still hold up really well...

There would be more hot women. Six looked like a generic LA stripper, Starbuck looked like ass. Boomer was hot. My vision of the show would have women at least on par with the babes of the OS BSG. In tight black body suits.

This sight still makes my peepee stiff.

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Oh, that's why you're here. Turdforge is broken again. What a tragedy.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
Oh, that's why you're here. Turdforge is broken again. What a tragedy.
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Like I said over there yesterday... if you can't shop at Wal-Mart, that leaves Dollar General. :D
 
The Beer Hall Pooch said:
Like I said over there yesterday... if you can't shop at Wal-Mart, that leaves Dollar General. :D
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Awww, you're just cranky because your schtick doesn't fly here too much. It does seem to fly over there, though, which isn't terribly surprising. By and large they're pretty fucking stupid and easily triggered.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
Awww, you're just cranky because your schtick doesn't fly here too much. It does seem to fly over there, though, which isn't terribly surprising. By and large they're pretty fucking stupid and easily triggered.
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Are you following me around?
 
Not really. It's just a fairly small and somewhat incestuous message board community. Plus you tend to make a rather loud noise, wherever it is you perch.
 
Why don't you make some loud noises about BSG in this thread?
 
Well I can if you want, but there's a whole other thread about that down here somewhere. But I'll try anyway.

Moore's version was about as close to perfect as this thing's ever gonna get. Any attempt to continue it or reboot it again would be a fool's errand at best and a shitshow at worst. There are things I like about the original show, but the disco rope dancing, the chimp in a dog suit, the turbolasers, Brett Somers, the ripoff of Shane, the various space bimbos, etc, aren't among them. Except for maybe Maren Jensen, aka Flatface.

Howzat?
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
Well I can if you want, but there's a whole other thread about that down here somewhere. But I'll try anyway.

Moore's version was about as close to perfect as this thing's ever gonna get. Any attempt to continue it or reboot it again would be a fool's errand at best and a shitshow at worst. There are things I like about the original show, but the disco rope dancing, the chimp in a dog suit, the turbolasers, Brett Somers, the ripoff of Shane, the various space bimbos, etc, aren't among them. Except for maybe Maren Jensen, aka Flatface.

Howzat?
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I will literally pay for your vasectomy.
 
It'd be hotter if you performed the procedure yourself!

:yoohoo:
 
I mean... I had some ideas about it (especially since it's come to light that RDM's reboot was his way of venting about problems he had with Star Trek: Voyager... as well as the reveal that the identities of the Final Five weren't about who it would actually make sense were secretly Cylons, but who would cause the biggest audience gut-punch.

But basically... the Cylons were created by humanity to help fight a war against the Ovions (insectoid aliens from the original BSG). After the war, the Cylons thought they would be treated as well as the human heroes returning.... only to find themselves being "disposed". This is what leads to the revolt, kicking off the First Cylon War. Eventually, an armistice is signed, and peace talks begin proper... only to fail when zealots on the Cylon side launch their attack on the 12 Colonies, in a way that combines how it was done in the original with how it was done in the reboot. And once again, the only Battlestars that survive are the Galactica and the Pegasus. Oh, and the Pegasus' commander - now named Henry Cain - is basically going to be Old Man Henderson in space.
 
They Final Five Cylons reveal was such bullshit, but Michael Hogan as Tigh was so fucking good that it ended up being entertaining. So I don't know: hire some charismatic Canadian character actors and let them go nuts.
 
Any attempt at a BSG reboot should be as far from the previous incarnation as that show was from the original, keeping only the most iconic elements like the shape of the Vipers, the Cylons' red eye or some variation on the original theme music. Otherwise, it should look like Jodorowsky's failed Dune project and sound like a late 70's prog rock album. A good one too, not some knock off Genesis shit.

I think though that the 2003 reboot was so transformative for the genre at the time that it basically affected everything made afterward means that nobody will have the spine to do a new take that's radically different from it, which is ironic given it's relationship to the original series.
 
I would do a continuation of Moore's BSG, set on (our) Earth in Biblical times with Jesus as an organic Cylon and the Angels being Raiders and/or metal Cylons. Possibly include cryptozoology/close encounter "greys" as the metal Cylons', that left in the basestar, attempt at becoming organic. If it has legs and I run out of material, start working backwards in the Old Testament and show "God" preparing the early humans (who we know from the previous series are apparently some genetic mixing of indigenous humans, Galactica humans, and organic Cylons) for the arrival of Christ. Heck, Biblical TV seems to be hot right now, why not jump on the bandwagon. I wonder if the Pope would excommunicate me.
 
The Beer Hall Pooch said:
I will literally pay for your vasectomy.
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"Are you two gonna fuck or fight?"
 
Boxey should be a cat.
 
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