Pirates 3 VS Battlestar

[MasterXeus]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

And what alien race, even starting from the same seed would invent the suit? Or go to all the trouble of cutting the corners off their paper? At least Colonial fashion was different enough on the original show you could kind-of buy it.

The god complex in the original was a rehash of Mormon mythology, where if they reach a certain level when they die, they ascend to a higher plane (the ship of lights). Baltar recognizes the voice of Count Iblis as the voice of the Cylon Imperious Leader, and had the show gone on (it was a top 10 show, cancelled because of ABC hubris at the time that all their shows were genius and whatever show they replaced it with would be cheaper and higher rated), it would have been revealed that Iblis had guided the evolution of the Cylon race to do battle with the worlds the Ship of Lights was protecting (yes, before Babylon 5)

Instead of taking the Terminator rehash that Moore did, the original was...mostly original

The Furlings (yes people, guess where Stargate got the name) were a neighboring race that the Colonies had a mutual defense pact with, and when the Cylons attacked them it set off the thousand year war.

If you look at it, what Ron Moore wanted to remake was Space Above and Beyond. The only real difference between the Silicates and the Cylons is the fanatical god complex and the gambling .The rest of the story is identical. Even the ship designs, MAJORLY similar on the alien side. They even had their "Chiggy von richtovan" episode that was remarkably similar to "Scar", the pointless ground missions involving highly trained pilots instead of Marines....

Ironically, a huge percentage of the SAAB FX team cut their teeth on the real Galactica.

And those planet episodes, always such time wasters, it's like they know what's going on upstairs isn't as interesting when they can't afford fighter combat this week.

And how about the score? The stupid jungle drums instead of Stu Phillips' rousing orchestral work. He re-recorded it with the Royal Scottish Philharmonic a few years back, check it out, it's better than the original.

Sorry, I was talking about the new BSG,

The NEW BSG, There's a total lack of background. No explanation as to how the Cylons came to be, why they attacked, what sort of civilization the humans have, their level of technology, their culture, etc. There were whole episodes about a Presidential election. (Can't I just watch The West Wing for politics?) There is a running ridiculous theme about the Cylons and God, but of course, this is never explained.

I have no problems with the original.