Battlestar Galactica Online

[Shatter]

The new Battlestar was an amazing series until it turned into Days of our Lives in space.

This.  Its also why Stargate Universe sucks, its EMOgate.  I dont give a shit that X character's dad touched her when she was 11 and thats why she has relationship issues, go through the dam stargate and shoot some motherf*cking bad guys. 

[Musashi]

I don't think the point is that the old one was good in any quantifiable way, outside of Dirk Benedict's awesomeness.  The point is that the new one is really overrated.  I was okay with the new one until the fat suit.  Pretty much everything after that sucked sweaty balls.

[tazelbain]

I was in it until Baltar's trial.

[HaemishM]

What's cool about changing Starbuck into a chicktranny?

Fixed that for you.

[Cyrrex]

What's cool about changing Starbuck into a chicktranny?

Fixed that for you.

Wat.

[Falconeer]

What's cool about changing Starbuck into a chicktranny?

Fixed that for you.

Even if it was the case, what's wrong with that? Even more diversity, which is good. Leave transexuals alone, please.

[Mrbloodworth]

I think they are a bit incomparable, one was a campy family show, the other, wasn't. Whatever you may think of it.

Lets talk about Galactica 1980 now. With the scusess of games like farmvile, it might just work!

[HaemishM]

I'm saying I've seen manly trannies that are hotter than Katie Sackoff.

[Cyrrex]

I'm saying I've seen manly trannies that are hotter than Katie Sackoff.

Maybe you just like you some trannies.

[HaemishM]

As long as they don't look like Katie Sackoff. 

[Teleku]

The new Battlestar was an amazing series until it turned into Days of our Lives in space.

Fair enough, but most of that was limited to the second half of the series (while if you don't think the first two seasons were some of the best TV ever made, your just plain broken), which is why the second half was less than stellar (most of it was in the 3rd season actually).  Even then, it was only a small portion of the show, and season 3&4 were still quite good on the whole.

As to the MMO, its a browser based game......

I'm having a hard time seeing it be very advanced, or even fun...

[Sir T]

My friends were beginning to bitch "So, where are the Cylons/space battles/action?" even in the second half of season 1. Hate to stun you but the emo was there from the start.

You can safely say that only 1 in 3 episodes of the original series were good, but those good episodes were very good, and the whole thing was fun. At least it didn't have the Cylons as emo immoral nymphomaniacs.

Now Galactica 1980. THAT was pure shit.

[Ratman_tf]

My friends were beginning to bitch "So, where are the Cylons/space battles/action?" even in the second half of season 1. Hate to stun you but the emo was there from the start.

Sure, but I could squint my eyes and pretend that it wasn't a soap opera for the first couple of seasons.

[Slyfeind]

There were space battles in the new BSG?

And the original had more diversity.

[Teleku]

My friends were beginning to bitch "So, where are the Cylons/space battles/action?" even in the second half of season 1. Hate to stun you but the emo was there from the start.

You can safely say that only 1 in 3 episodes of the original series were good, but those good episodes were very good, and the whole thing was fun. At least it didn't have the Cylons as emo immoral nymphomaniacs.

Now Galactica 1980. THAT was pure shit.

It was a character drama with great characters, set in space, with sporadic AMAZING space battles (just not constantly).  It was a modern space opera.  It was only "emo" starting into season 3 when they did those horrible character episodes and really started to fuck with the characters because they were running out of idea's.  Unless you consider anything resembling drama "emo".  I find the bitching about "space battles" funny as well, since there was still plenty of action and tension throughout the series, and the outright battles were some of the best space battles I've ever seen.

In any event:

Wait, there's people who prefer the 70's BSG to the remake, and not in a "secretly ironic" way? 

Yes.   

[Khaldun]

Muffit and Boxey.

Muffit and Boxey.

MUFFIT and BOXEY.


Like, that's the standard unit of kids-in-shows hideousness.

 
"Hey, Wesley on Star Trek: the Next Generation was about 5.6 Muffitboxies, I think."

"Yeah, but Will Robinson only was about .75 Muffitboxies, he was pretty decent."

[Musashi]

Hey now.  Boxey turned out to be Atreyu.

Also.  Teleku.  You're overselling it.  The series was overrated.  There are major parts of it that are totally laughable.  And for a character study, it had some pretty weak characters.  Baltar, President Stands with a Fist, Apollo, the Asian Cylon (though hot), the One-eyed Canadian Woodsman First Officer in space - these characters all sucked balls for various reasons. 

It is not the best TV ever made.  It's not even in the discussion.  It's among some of the best SciFi TV made recently.  And quite frankly, that's not saying too much.  It's a hell of a lot better than Caprica.

[Teleku]

I'm fine with people not liking it (though I think your crazy, but hey, to each there own).  It's more the fact that I can't even begin to wrap my head around people actually liking the older one better than the new one.  The old one had a decent pilot/movie, and very quickly became completely unwatchable in every single way.  Even if you hate the new one you'd have to agree it had some semblance of story telling and depth.  GI Joe had more depth and story than the original BSG.

[Reg]

The old one was awful. It was so awful that Star Trek fans wouldn't watch it even though it was the only science fiction on television at the time.  Instead we'd just watch reruns of the original trek while waiting for the movie.

[Musashi]

GI Joe had more depth and story than the original BSG.

The original Battlestar had more depth than most of the shit that was on TV in 1978.  I'd be willing to bet that most of the people here who are disagreeing with you had the misfortune of being alive in a time when Laverne & Shirley was the top rated show on TV.

Also.  Star Trek fans watched the old BSG too.  You're not fooling anyone.

[ghost]

I'm holding out for Firefly online 

[Soulflame]

How many of you are even old enough to have watched the original run of BSG?   

It was decent for the time.  I watched the whole run, and while I can't say it was excellent, it wasn't outright terrible.  At least compared to whatever else you could watch on TV.

[Reg]

I'm old enough. And I hated it as did all my nerdy Trekkie friends. To be fair though I was in university and heavy drinking won out over TV viewing every time.

[Lantyssa]

I watched the original.  A little younger than Reg, but I loved it.  Probably because anything sci-fi held my interest.

[Pezzle]

Watched it and liked it enough to keep watching.  The new BSG had me wandering off because it was boring.

[Threash]

I liked the old one fine, but i was like five.  New one was completely redemeed by cool space battles + incredibly hot half naked cylons, the rest of it sucked horribly.

[Reg]

I bet you guys identified with Boxie and wanted a robot dog just like his!

[Lantyssa]

I did!  Also wanted a Cylon.

[UnSub]

I'm holding out for Firefly online 

First announced in 2006. 

[Trippy]

How many of you are even old enough to have watched the original run of BSG?   

It was decent for the time.  I watched the whole run, and while I can't say it was excellent, it wasn't outright terrible.  At least compared to whatever else you could watch on TV.

I watched the original run as a kid. The episode where Jane Seymour's character dies scarred me for life

[raydeen]

I watched the original when it was on. I still love watching the reruns on Hulu. It's a show from a different time, place and perspective. I hold the old and new in the highest regard with the only shows that currently beat them out being Doctor Who (all of it) and Babylon 5.

The thing that was so cool about the original was the fact that there wasn't one piece of fake computer prop on the bridge of the Galactica. It was actually all medical diagnostic equipment and that's why it looked so damn good (for the time). I still think it does. And viper helmets. God I want a Colonial Viper helmet.

[Abagadro]

The original was pretty cool back in the day. It was appointment television for my 8 year old self. Many of the problems with it were attributable to being rushed in its production and its limited budget. For what they had to work with they pulled off some pretty cool shit.

[Ratman_tf]

I did!  Also wanted a Cylon.

Fuck that. I was terrified of the Cylons. They were my Daleks. 

[Pezzle]

EXTERMINATE!! EXTERMINATE!!

Now those were good frighting times.

[Lantyssa]

Daleks were cute!  I dunno why, but I never found aliens on TV shows frightening, even the baddies.  Maybe I understood intuitively from an early age that anything which wanted to wipe out the human race had the right idea.