Which is your favorite Battlestar Galactica series thus far?

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And why? :)


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[Claymore]

Is that a picture of cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch?

[Goodsport]

Is that a picture of cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch?

Actually... yes. :eek:

Robbie Rist, who played Cousin Oliver in The Brady Bunch, later played Doctor Zee in the pilot episode of Galactica 1980.

For the rest of the series, Doctor Zee was played by Patrick Stuart (not Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation).


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[Claymore]

Actually... yes. :eek:

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Damn, I scare myself sometimes.

[BillQ]

BG Mark 1 for purely family reasons. My uncle, Peter Berkos, created the sound effects for the original show.

[Dante]

The newest series, it's not camp and it's actually well written and acted.

[krolpolski]

The newest series, it's not camp and it's actually well written and acted.

And the effects are quite good. I look forward to see where they go with it.

[Foosinho]

The newest series, it's not camp and it's actually well written and acted.
Ditto.

Plus, I like the editing and cinematography styles (cameras appear hand-held, space shots look hurried - real - with frantic zooms and pans to keep up with the action). Not to mention the totally awesome physics accuracy (with minor tweaks for viewability). I can live with the fact that the missiles have trails and the ships make noise, because the ships actually move like they really would in space, and not like frickin' airplanes.

[Goodsport]

BG Mark 1 for purely family reasons. My uncle, Peter Berkos, created the sound effects for the original show.

Seriously? :eek:

Cool! :cool:


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[Khansingh]

This is a tough question to answer. The new version is a better show, but I "liked" the old version more. On that basis, I voted for the Original. You can't say Edward James Olmos is better or worse than Lorne Greene, they're just different. The character that I find to be remarkably similar to the original is Apollo. The actors' portrayals are not similar, but the characters behave similarly. The best new character is easily Dr. Baltar, due in no small part to the superb performance of James Callis. The worst is Leoben, the philosopher Cylon. And this has nothing to do with her character or her abilities as an actress, but Katee Sackhoff? The new Starbuck? There is nothing wrong with her body. It's tight in all of the right places and curvy in all of the right places. Fantastic. Her face? Yikes.

[ElJefe]

Man, this is a tough choice. I like both the new series and the original series a lot, but for different reasons.

I'll go with the new series by a nose, simply because it's still with us and it has so much potential that the original series was never able to exploit, simply because it was cancelled by ABC after one season.

[Khansingh]

The thing about the Original is that so many of its shortcomings had to do with its era. There was a lot of cheese on TV back then.

[Goodsport]

As Season 2 of the new BSG draws to a close, how has your opinion on which is your favorite Battlestar Galactica series changed? Or has it? :confused:


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[YanksFC]

I'm not much of a fan of sci-fi, but I love this show, so I have to go with the new BSG primarily for the reasons that others have already mentioned.

[Goodsport]

I'm not much of a fan of sci-fi, but I love this show, so I have to go with the new BSG primarily for the reasons that others have already mentioned.

Could the old series have continued on further had there been a Sci-Fi Channel back in the late 1970's, where the ratings expectations likely wouldn't have been as demanding as they were on ABC? :confused:


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[Goodsport]

In the last few months, has general opinion shifted even further in favor of the current version of the show or more in favor of the previous versions? :confused:


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[stanleyt]

Could the old series have continued on further had there been a Sci-Fi Channel back in the late 1970's, where the ratings expectations likely wouldn't have been as demanding as they were on ABC? :confused:


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The ratings for BSG Mark I weren't bad. It consistantly won its timeslot. The problem was the show was damn expensive to produce (that's why you saw the same Cylon ship blow up). I believe it was over a million dollars and episode (1978 dollars). "Galactica 1980" was a way to produce the show on the cheap.

Personally, I like the tone of the new show but the production values are lacking. Cats need to do better location scouting and improve the costuming. I'm not saying we need to go back to the flowing robes and silver suits of the seventies but at least look to "Firefly" & "Stargate SG-1" for costuming inspiration.

[Goodsport]

The ratings for BSG Mark I weren't bad. It consistantly won its timeslot. The problem was the show was damn expensive to produce (that's why you saw the same Cylon ship blow up). I believe it was over a million dollars and episode (1978 dollars). "Galactica 1980" was a way to produce the show on the cheap.

Personally, I like the tone of the new show but the production values are lacking. Cats need to do better location scouting and improve the costuming. I'm not saying we need to go back to the flowing robes and silver suits of the seventies but at least look to "Firefly" & "Stargate SG-1" for costuming inspiration.

Cost-per-episode is also what eventually halted Fox's Space: Above and Beyond after just one season (1995-96), as that show's ratings were actually pretty decent as well.


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[Goodsport]

Interestingly, the current series has now had more episodes (whether or not the opening miniseries is considered) than the other two series combined, and there's still at least a season left to go. :eek:


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[Goodsport]

Now that we're well into the fourth and final season of the show's latest incarnation, have the poll results held up well?


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